Fux Noise Really Wants You to Think Its Ratings Aren't Down

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If you’ve been on Fox News’ digital news site or bouncing around the right-wing media ecosphere in recent weeks, you’ve no doubt come across an article or three about the recent collapse in viewership at CNN and MSNBC. And the tanking ratings have largely been tied to the “credibility” issues the two networks supposedly have in covering President Joe Biden’s administration following Donald Trump’s exit from the White House.

Lost in all this coverage, however, is one stubborn fact: Fox News has also suffered a precipitous drop in its viewership.

Following a record-setting year in cable news viewership that was spurred by a once-a-century pandemic and a dramatic presidential election—which then climaxed with a one-two punch of Trump inciting an insurrection and Biden’s inauguration—ratings have tumbled across the board as interest in politics has waned.

During the month of January, for instance, CNN enjoyed its most-watched month yet, drawing a daily average of 1.907 million total viewers and a total primetime audience of 2.737 million. At the same time, during that same month, Fox News finished third in cable-news ratings for the first time in 20 years, averaging 1.374 million viewers in total day and 2.621 million in primetime. MSNBC, for its part, was second across the board that month, drawing 1.662 million viewers per day and 2.658 million in primetime.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-really-wants-think-032215334.html

[Karadeniz]

1. This makes sense to me. CNN and MSNBC viewers no longer feel the need to check in during the

day to measure the unchecked march into fascism, because we have more confidence that the govt is noticing things and calling the fascists out. On the other hand, Fox has a base line viewership who need to have their fears stoked. There was a good article posted recently about how Fox benefits from cable fees. That needs to stop. And...we'd all be more interested in news if it weren't the same three stories recycled all the livelong day!