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Fox News reportedly considering top executive firings over their post-election ratings collapse
American Thinker ^ | Jan, 16, 2021 | Thomas Lifeson

Posted on 01/16/2021 2:44:43 PM PST by Ouderkirk

If Fox News wants to restore its cable news ratings dominance, changes will have to be visible far lower in its organization than what is being reported.

Though I was angry over its election night coverage and have been dismayed at the behavior of a number of its on-air personalities, I take no joy in the ratings crisis that seems to be engulfing Fox News. For all its faults, its reach, resources, and stable of outstanding talent like Tucker Carlson make it an essential voice in a nation with a media scene that is getting scarier by the day. There is no doubt in my mind that, if FNC disappeared or lost its cable system distribution, as at least one of its rivals seems to be advocating, conservatism would be in a much weaker position.

Yesterday, The Daily Beast published an article with four authors, one of them a departed FNC staffer who charged sexual harassment and settled for an undisclosed sum, claiming:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fauxnews; fox; murdoch; ratingsfail
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To: CaptainMorgantown

For months the kept citing real clear politics and others that the republicans were to lose 10-15 seats. For months the said this. The exact opposite happened. Not even statistically possible. They also kept showing polls with Trump down 8 pts.+. Complete dishonesty. We need and deserve names.


81 posted on 01/16/2021 4:04:29 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: scfirewall

This was the end result of ‘voting the lesser of two evils’, it was always too urgent to take the political hit,by not doing that and here we are. I used to really love the ‘by gum,we’ll,we’ll hold their feet to the fire’, yep, that worked out so well.


82 posted on 01/16/2021 4:06:22 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: Ouderkirk

83 posted on 01/16/2021 4:11:11 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Ouderkirk

I don’t care i what they do, they’re dead to me, just like the bulk of the Republicans, save a handful of Patriots. Never. Again.


84 posted on 01/16/2021 4:13:17 PM PST by FightforFreedomCA (Welkome to Amerika...)
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To: Ouderkirk

Calling the Boo Hoo girl !!


85 posted on 01/16/2021 4:13:34 PM PST by wardamneagle (c)
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks

Yep. That’s when I dropped them.


86 posted on 01/16/2021 4:17:20 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: Josa
Not anything they can do to EVER get me back

Ditto. Simple as that.

87 posted on 01/16/2021 4:17:40 PM PST by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Ouderkirk

Viewers aren’t coming back.


88 posted on 01/16/2021 4:20:48 PM PST by Arones (People say "this is not who we are." Have you not turned on the tv since Memorial Day? -Mark Steyn)
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To: Ouderkirk

Fire the LibTards running the company.


89 posted on 01/16/2021 4:21:20 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Ouderkirk
Trying to be CNN-lite won’t cut it.

Roger Ailes discovered a niche that was, as the late Charles Krauthammer joked, "half the country." That is a market position that is enviable and worked like a charm for many years. Discarding it was a mistake.

This FOX 'mistake' is right up there with JC Penney deciding to dump their middle class base in favor of upper income gay men who would no more shop at Penney for clothes than Walmart. Similar to some fool at Coke deciding a 'New Coke' was a good idea - giving the finger to the vast majority of their customers.

FOXNews has had liberals since the beginning but NONE like Chris Wallace who feels it's his job to 'school' the stupid conservatives with manipulation. That was a deal breaker right up there with hiring a woman who gave Hillary debate questions.

And Juan? Always liked him years ago - now his idea of 'debate' is to roll his eyes and shake his head as if 'he's too good to debate the issues' with 'deplorables'... Hey Juan - I remember when blacks were treated with "that same elitist BS" - and I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. It's the attitude that's offensive - an attitude that transcends race and time. Get over yourself Juan - and rejoin the team....

90 posted on 01/16/2021 4:25:05 PM PST by GOPJ (Megan McCain and Liz Chaney starting new Party - "Born On Third - Sure we Hit a Triple".)
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To: Ouderkirk

The top executives are going to fire themselves? Wow - I’d love to sit in on THAT meeting.


91 posted on 01/16/2021 4:27:23 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: Ouderkirk

They made their bed....


92 posted on 01/16/2021 4:29:29 PM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. )
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To: Ouderkirk

Their news bimbos will have to go fully nude to boost tatings. They were pretty close to it already.


93 posted on 01/16/2021 4:32:04 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Ouderkirk

I don’t think they can get it back. Once you are tainted with leftulist poisoning the resulting condition is terminal.


94 posted on 01/16/2021 4:34:59 PM PST by arthurus ( covfefe )
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To: Don Corleone

right now advertisers are busily cutting off anyone tainted with common sense conservatism. The Market is being severely affected by the prospects of government retaliation for doing business with or hiring known or suspected conservatves.


95 posted on 01/16/2021 4:37:07 PM PST by arthurus ( covfefe meg)
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To: Ouderkirk

FOX will never stage a comeback. They have banished themselves into the Outer Worlds.


96 posted on 01/16/2021 4:39:00 PM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: dfwgator

The thing is, Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.


97 posted on 01/16/2021 4:39:50 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (They had to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: nutmeg

Bkmk


98 posted on 01/16/2021 4:40:55 PM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Williams
Is there a door wide enough to shove Chris Stirewalt out?

LOL!

99 posted on 01/16/2021 4:41:30 PM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Ouderkirk

They should fire the sanctimonious leftist @sses who control Faux News. But the next ones to have their @sses fired should be Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Brett Baier, and Neil Cavuto.


100 posted on 01/16/2021 4:45:01 PM PST by RooRoobird20
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