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FoxNews is losing viewers…rapidly. The intensity of the anger by longtime viewers expressed in responses on Twitter alone is palpable. Newsmax and many of the other more independent sources for news – many of them available for free on PlutoTV.com through Roku, AppleTV, and other streaming devices or directly online through their internet sites are seeing a massive surge in viewership. Newsmax recently announced that it will not make a call on the presidential winner of this election until all the votes have been counted, until all legal challenges have been resolved and all elections certified by their states. A refreshing approach.
Good riddance to all of them. The keepers amongst them will land somewhere else. Proud to be a member of the #FoxNeverWatchers
I haven’t watched since they called AZ.
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/foxs-cavuto-cuts-off-trump-campaign-presser-with-scathing-smackdown-i-cant-in-good-countenance-continue-showing-this/
I have no opinion, humble or otherwise, because this is one of those questions of efficient household management that I have delegated to my competent and dutiful staff.
By coincidence, my Chief of Staff just informed me a few hours ago that she has implemented a new policy, and for the very same reasoning, having to do with “fair and balanced/changes in behavior regarding”.
I will now get my daily executive briefings from NewsMax, plus a remnant of Fox: Tucker, plus The Five.
I’ve only seen a little of the content from the new source. Some guy named Howie Carr. So far I’m impressed.
But I’m easily impressed. I used to think Brett Baier was fair and balanced.
Tucker and Janine will be dandy on the new network run by Don Jr.
Howie Carr is great. I listen to him on the radio when I’m in NH.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/11/07/nolte-backlash-against-fox-news-explodes/
Today Fox News was attacked from both Rush, the undisputed king of talk radio, and Steven Crowder, arguably the most popular conservative on YouTube.
This wasn’t competitors sticking the boot in. Neither was really happy to have to do so.
The Neil Cavuto censorship tonight blew my mind. I rewatched and recorded just to make sure I wasn’t hearing things. What he said was 100% exactly the same justification Twitter and Facebook used to justify the censorship of the New York Post: it doesn’t matter if it’s a valid news story; It doesn’t matter if the speaker is the President or his spokesman. If I think it’s wrong, you can’t watch it.
Fox News is not unlike the Never professional talkers.
You have made a decent living on a Conservative audience, but when you make your audience vehemently disagree with you, you are more than welcome to try and keep selling your unwanted wares, but eventually the market realities will catch up to you, and you may have to find something else to do for a living.
That’s called shooting the messenger.
I had a similar post. They lost me.
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You object to the new Fox News because it doesn’t agree with you anymore, and you are paying a news channel for telling you what you agree with and want to hear. That’s the wares you refer to.
Most of us Ricocheteers, I would guess, object to the new Fox News not for that reason, but because it doesn’t seem to be committed to delivering us fair and balanced news anymore, and we are paying a media channel for the truth. For us, truth is the wares.
We agree on the conclusion, but not on the logic.
Chilling tweet.
I watched Bret Baer talk about the lawsuits and investigations and he basically ridiculed Republican efforts by reporting on anecdotal or single incidents. Fox showed Rudy Giuliani saying that Will Smith’s deceased father had voted twice. And they expect us to take them seriously as a news organization?
Not so – speaking for myself – I am objecting to FoxNews because, now like CNN and MSBNC, CBS, ABC, NBC, their bias for Joe Biden is on full-display and was very apparent on Election Night. With a few exceptions – Levin, Tucker, Hannity, Pirro, Gutfeld, Watters – some of whom may be axed soon – they are becoming indistinguishable from the other left-leaning networks. They will now be subject to market forces. So be it.
I believe what I believe and I search out those News outlets which don’t make me want to throw my television out the window.
I believe the result of the election last Tuesday was due to massive voter fraud, and it makes me furious when the MSM insists there was no voter fraud …. Or …. I vehemently disagree with the notion that there is no proof/evidence/statistical anomalies/etc which would indicate voter fraud.
Is it the truth that there was massive voter fraud which helped get Joe Biden enough votes in States he was losing when the polls closed on Tuesday?
We cannot know the truth unless we investigate and if the Fox News falls into the MSM Trump must concede that there was no voter fraud, then I vehemently disagree with Fox News version of the their voter fraud truth.
A thousand likes for you! Make it so!
I haven’t watched any cable or network news for years, including Fox, but I simply can’t understand what they are doing from a business perspective. They had carved out a very lucrative niche that no one else in the marketplace was catering to. Becoming just a watered down version of CNN or network news is a losing proposition. What is the business strategy here?
Gotta love the headline:
Agree 100%. They inserted themselves into the election, just like all the other networks. They are allowing their opinions to color what they show and don’t show. Just like all the other networks.
You claim to disagree with me and then in what you write, you agree.
Nope. I don’t care if Chris Wallace or Brett Baier or Martha McCallum or Sandra Smith don’t agree with me. I just want them to be honest, fair, and balanced as they purport to be – particularly because each of them present themselves as impartial news anchors. When they wander into commentary or shut down guests or dismiss legitimate allegations of fraud (that their damn network ought to be investigating) and when they call an election that hasn’t been decided or certified, they cross the line of impartiality and openly display their bias. So, I think I’m pretty consistent in my comment.
Fox lost me between saying “there is no proof” of voter fraud every time someone mentioned the current Trump lawsuits and Chris Wallace implying “critical race theory” is the same as sensitivity training.
I watched the Notre Dame, Clemson game from start to finish. Far more entertaining, and much better for the soul than listening to Joe.
From Outkick:
Doug – you must have been watching a local station. I had to mute the NBC national feed when it cut out to Biden. What a great game!
Roger Ailes was the person who made FoxNews, and Rupert Murdoch’s lefty kids and family members are ready to destroy it.
FoxNews usually has some of the most lefty polls results too.
I’m on a satellite, just switched over to USA network for the game when NBC cut away for Biden, and then back to NBC when Biden had to go to bed.
Seems like the margin for error with their market is much lower than the other networks as well. Fox simply doesn’t have the corporate support in terms of deep-pocket advertisers.
Ah, well, many a company has done it before them: find a working business model, cultivate a market…torch it.