Why Fox News Remains Dominant in the Ratings

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Caldera said:
“Rachel Maddow new cable news champ as MSNBC surges.” This is likely a headline you’ve read or heard some variation of multiple times this year.

The rise of Maddow’s program led the media to create a narrative about Fox News being on the decline under the Trump administration. Sure, MSNBC has made gains — but the Fox News brand remains king.

Earlier this year, after a decade on the air, 44-year-old Maddow finally found her footing in the ratings race against CNN and Fox News. She won big in the critical 25- to 54-year-old demographic — but did so by embarrassing herself. She hyped a big “scoop” about the president’s taxes — when all she had were two measly pages of Trump’s 2005 1040 form. It was Maddow’s biggest audience ever — 4.13 million viewers.

The tax return story was the progressive media’s desperate attempt to show possible Russian collusion in Trump’s rise to power, but all her “scoop” ended up revealing was that Trump paid a lot in taxes in 2005.

Maddow was widely mocked on social media for lacking the damning evidence she had originally hyped.

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The reason why FOX NEWS isn’t as dominant as it once was at times has to do mostly with people getting their news from social media and because of the divisive presidential primary, not because all of a sudden people love CNN or MSNBC.
 
philipl said:
So out of 5 questions, on average, NO ONE could answer more than 1.9. Seems to me all of them are stupid.

I love to see a list of the questions?
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Naturally, the exact methodology and the questions weren’t reported on.

What did they ask? Is Obama the best president ever?
 
philipl said:
So out of 5 questions, on average, NO ONE could answer more than 1.9. Seems to me all of them are stupid.

I love to see a list of the questions?
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bold: click on "Fox News and MSNBC have a negative impact … " that links to the study. Or just click here: publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/

The overall results were abysmal across the board. The highest scoring, NPR, had its listeners .5ish better than Fox’s 1.04ish. I’m not sure how they calculated the numbers they did when breaking down sole viewership to one particular network since the only question that resembled it was asking where each political ideology got their information where the breakdown showed multiple sources. Not one question asked what was formed into the headline.
 
Midwest88 said:
I looked at the study. The actual results showed weren’t impressive on either side and in every category the participants were in. Some questions the Republicans answered correctly more, some less, and some were equal compared to Democrats.

But nice try, grace.
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Yes,it would seem it isn’t the Fox News viewership that is uninformed.😉
 
Midwest88 said:
FOX is better than 99% of the MSM media. They’re the only network that tries to respect the red, white and blue. With that said their handling of the Charlottesville riot has been poor, pulling a CNN/MSNBC.
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Can I ask a totally legit question?

How is Fox not part of the “mainstream media” themselves, when they have the highest ratings and viewership?

I mean, that’s what mainstream means.
 
xNoOnex said:
Can I ask a totally legit question?

How is Fox not part of the “mainstream media” themselves, when they have the highest ratings and viewership?

I mean, that’s what mainstream means.
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No, no no. Mainstream means left-wing only. If you are not left wing, then you are alt-right.
 
SuperLuigi said:
Naturally, the exact methodology and the questions weren’t reported on.

What did they ask? Is Obama the best president ever?
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My husband answered a phone call just the other day,it was a poll and the first question was" do you think our Country is moving in the right direction?"
He answered," I don’t know how I would begin to answer that,what kind of a question is this,anyway?"
The woman on the other end said to my husband,.
, “Quit acting so ignorant” then she hung up on him.😛
Pretty telling,I would say.😉
 
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