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Fox News Ratings Plummet After Election. Is President Trump’s Criticism the Cause?
Time ^ | NOVEMBER 24, 2020 9:37 PM EST | BY DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 12/04/2020 3:51:16 PM PST by cann

In a bizarre video retweeted Tuesday by President Donald Trump, a sinister-looking Randy Quaid is seen in a closeup with flashing lights illuminating his bearded face as he intones, “Fox News daytime ratings have completely collapsed.”

Did the actor, who posted his proclamation nearly two weeks ago, know what he was talking about?

Fox’s daytime viewership dropped 32 percent from the two weeks prior to Election Day to the two weeks after, the Nielsen company said.

The post-election, weekday average daytime viewership of 1.63 million was roughly equivalent to that of CNN (1.68 million) and MSNBC (1.71 million). CNN was up 33% and MSNBC up 9% during that time period, Nielsen said.

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To: jps098

And instead they lost around 15-20 didn’t they?

I hear ya. I have no use for them any longer.


61 posted on 12/04/2020 5:34:39 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: willk
I still feel traumatized by that idiot they had on there that called Arizona for Biden so early.

His name is Styrewalt1! He should be treated as Maxine said conservatives should be treated if he is spotted in a restaurant or any other place out in public. The SOB should be hounded until he breaks. Also, I would like to see that SOB put under oath and asked who told him to call Arizona with only 3% of the vote in. rant/off

62 posted on 12/04/2020 5:57:25 PM PST by eeriegeno
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To: DoughtyOne

That’s why I don’t watch any of them including Faux News.

I am old enough that if I want to numb my brain, I will just use good Scotch Whiskey.


63 posted on 12/04/2020 6:07:14 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: cann
...Is President Trump’s Criticism the Cause?

Asinine fools!   I doesn't even dawn on them that it could be the fake news they are spewing.

64 posted on 12/04/2020 6:18:19 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: 5th MEB

Yeah, and the scotch doesn’t bad mouth our nation.


65 posted on 12/04/2020 6:20:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: cann

When FOX decided to turn their back on us, we turned our back on them.


66 posted on 12/04/2020 6:34:22 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: cann

No my opinion if Fox News comes from watching the crap they are trying to sell. Trump does not think for me. You can tell Tucker and Hannity are muzzled, so why watch.


67 posted on 12/04/2020 6:34:45 PM PST by Plumres
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To: Paulie
In fact after their attempted take down of The Donald in the 2016 campaign, that was it for me. Cut the cable and never looked back (and never regretted it either).

Like you, I stopped watching the day after the ambush of Donald Trump on Aug. 6, 2015, at the first Republican Presidential Debate. I haven't watched one moment of Fox News or Fox Business News since that day.   It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize that the upper management approved of what Meagain Kelly did, especially since she preened and bragged about the sensational event days and days before it happened.

68 posted on 12/04/2020 6:34:50 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: PGalt

Thank you for the suggestion. I will add that song to my “resist” playlist.

I recommend that you check out the song “Dystopia” by Iced Earth. It was released in 2011 and is eerily prophetic to today’s events. I will attempt to post a YouTube link to the lyric video. I apologize in advance if the link doesn’t work. For some reason, I have been having trouble posting links for this particular video.

Iced Earth-“Dystopia”

https://youtu.be/XtmxI79uPPc


69 posted on 12/04/2020 7:18:03 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl ("Welcome Down To My Planet Hell."- Nightwish)
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To: a real Sheila

Hannity has become irrelevant and useless.


70 posted on 12/04/2020 7:23:22 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD. Rot in hell ALL of them!)
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To: cann

Time magazine doesn’t think any of us are smart enough to stop watching Fox News unless Donald Trump tells us to? I wish they had a comment section. I’d let them know I totally stopped watching Fox News over 10 years ago.


71 posted on 12/04/2020 7:23:47 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: rollo tomasi

Hell, if my memory is correct, Fox called AZ for Biden faster than they called Indiana for Trump, a state which Trump won by 16%!


72 posted on 12/04/2020 7:29:13 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: cann
No *hit, Sherlock. Got any other insightful observations?

Thirty days of behavior can create a new habit and I haven’t watched FNC since late November 3. Wish I could say I have formed a new and better habit but I can’t. I miss the old routine of automatically watching whoever was on Fox but I don’t miss Juan or Sissy Wallace or Donna Frazile, or the perfect little prissy Dana... Fox left me, and I left them.

73 posted on 12/04/2020 7:31:22 PM PST by MHT
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To: cann

No you MORONS !!!

It was their ejection mid coversge ! Losers ! ( except Lou and SEan and mark


74 posted on 12/04/2020 8:56:40 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: cann

Stabbing your primary audience in the back is bad business.


75 posted on 12/04/2020 9:07:57 PM PST by Arcadian Empire
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To: cann

You can’t get this level of journalistic insight just anywhere.

Time Magazine, ladies and gents. Maybe you can buy it for a dollar next, like their buddies at Newsweak.


76 posted on 12/04/2020 9:09:20 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: cann

My answer to the title posted;
Nope.


77 posted on 12/04/2020 10:42:35 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: cann

“is President Trump’s Criticism the Cause?
No I refuse to watch as I find the network and its owners to be lying posers.


78 posted on 12/05/2020 3:05:17 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe )
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To: willk

“I still feel traumatized by that idiot they had on there that called Arizona for Biden so early.”

Some conspiracy theorist said that all the SOS and top elections officials in the RAT machine had been given a heads-up earlier. If/when they heard Fox called AZ for Biden, that was the signal to start bringing in the phony ballots and start “stuffing” the ballot boxes.

Don’t know if it’s true, or if the timeline would work.


79 posted on 12/05/2020 3:16:51 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" Galatians 5:1)
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