As someone who worked in the TV ratings business for thirty years. The ratings on cable show the number of people who watched the debate for 5 minutes. They do not show people who watched the whole debate. And then that number is rounded to the nearest .1% of the TV/cable watching public at that time. So you are talking about a very small group that may have turned it off after watching for 5 minutes. There is more to this math. But the idea that the X numbers may be smaller than the cable numbers is just wrong. People will be going back to watch Trump over the next days. That debate is likely to fall away.
But the important point here is that FOX and the Post are both owned by the same company. And that company hates Trump and Tucker. So neither the Post nor Fox can be trusted with this story at all. Fox would like to own the republican candidate. They don’t like Trump fans who have taken their bat and ball and gone home. They no longer care what Fox says. And this is the real point about Trump. He is the outsider. And those people on that stage aren’t. They are the group Fox is trying to sell you. Trump voters are no longer listening.
Fox and the republican party are going to have to ask themselves, are their donors more important than there voters. Because the republican donors and voters have two wildly different ideals. Fox and the party seems to be siding with money over America. Fox and the party will lose. But will America survive?
“Trump. He is the outsider. And those people on that stage aren’t. They are the group Fox is trying to sell you. Trump voters are no longer listening.”
Agreed.
It seems like Fox fires their most popular people: Beck, O’Reilly, Kelly, and Carlson.
I never got a bead on Megyn Kelly, but she was nice to look at. The other three I really like(d). Maybe I’ll pony up the bucks and only watch ex-Fox newscasters. Better yet, they could make their own network, Alt-Fox.