PhDeac
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The end of that article is killer.
So ratings have gone down, but their quarterly earnings were up. Strangely, I can't find it the report is for Q4 of 2020 or if it includes January. If it's Q4, it makes sense because Fox News basically extended their election coverage to the end of the quarter through conspiracy theories.
I think one reason viewership is down is that Fox News doesn't have an inside track with the administration. If you wanted straight from the source news, you mostly had to go to Fox News especially when they weren't doing press conferences. So Fox News may be losing viewers who actually wanted news.
Suppose Discovery Channel went haywire and encouraged viewers to drink arsenic to lose weight? Or Cartoon Network was bought by a tobacco company and encouraged children to try smoking? Or MSNBC pundits called on viewers to burn down police stations?
We would agree that advertisers should not support their programs and that cable channels should not force Americans to subsidize them. In other words, we accept that there must be red lines even if we don’t always agree where to draw them — and I believe that Fox crossed those lines in 2020.
I hope Fox returns from the Land of Make Believe to its conservative roots, for America would benefit from a reliable right-wing TV news source. As Tucker Carlson said at CPAC in 2009: “The New York Times is a liberal paper, … but it’s also a paper that actually cares about accuracy. … Conservatives need to mimic that in their own news organizations.”
He was right … then.
So ratings have gone down, but their quarterly earnings were up. Strangely, I can't find it the report is for Q4 of 2020 or if it includes January. If it's Q4, it makes sense because Fox News basically extended their election coverage to the end of the quarter through conspiracy theories.
I think one reason viewership is down is that Fox News doesn't have an inside track with the administration. If you wanted straight from the source news, you mostly had to go to Fox News especially when they weren't doing press conferences. So Fox News may be losing viewers who actually wanted news.