Should this be a worry come election time???

[brettdale]

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[napi21]

1. Not really. It's no surprise that FOX leads the pack. Apparently real Pubbies love FOX where they

can hear people reinforcing their opinions/ Glad to see Rachel leading every other cable program. She deserves it.

[Roland99]

2. Combine CNN/MSNBC then compare to Faux

And compare to the Big 3 nightly newscasts

[empedocles]

10. Big national news 3x bigger. More credible also.

' . . . It's also small potatoes compared the three network evening newscasts, which averaged almost three times as many viewers — 29.67 million — in the week of April 13. The most-watched show in cable news last week, Fox News' Special Report With Bret Baier (5.77 million daily viewers), fell more than a million people short of the third-place network newscast, CBS Evening News (7.52 million, including a re-airing at 4 a.m. the next day).' - Hollywood Reportere

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. No.

[totodeinhere]

4. I am worried about the election but not because of Fox News ratings.

Fox News was getting good ratings in 2008 and 2012 yet that did not stop President Obama's election. And Fox News did not stop the blue wave 2018 midterm election.

What I am worried about the most is that Trump and his Russian buddies will find a way to use the pandemic as cover to steal the election. I think that is the realistic danger, not Fox News.

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[BannonsLiver]

5. Same 1-3 million morons watch the entire lineup, so no.

Another takeaway, if I’m running MSNBC I’d fire Chris Hayes. His ratings are abysmal. Also, this proves what I suspected about Melber’s lousy show as well. Nobody watches it.

[Codeine]

6. Those numbers are infinitesimal.

Even the highest-rated program there is pulling down something like one tenth of one percent of the population. Cable news is a wasteland for elderly white retirees who lack decent hobbies.

[C_U_L8R]

7. They just have a monopoly on idiots.

The majority, the thinking people, are shared across diverse media.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

8. They Watch Fox To Be Told What To Think

They're not smart enough to form their own opinions, so they turn on Faux News hoping to hear why they're right for liking Trump when all the evidence of their eyes and ears tells them they're wrong. People who are able to form their own opinions don't need a screaming, condescending talking head on TV to tell them what to think, so they don't bother with it.

[fleabiscuit]

9. Since it was about exactly the same number of viewers, & a bit more "blue"... probably not. nt

[Alex4Martinez]

11. Look at the shows' times: at 10:00 pm CNN + MSNBC viewers 709,000 versus 520,000 for Fox.

No, I suspect it's the same 500,000 watching each of the various Fox shows.

My dear friend, sort of surrogate mom, 85 years old, has Fox on round the clock.

[totodeinhere]

12. Yes but advertisers have to pay separately for each channel so to them Fox News is more

valuable because it has a plurality of viewers. To reach all of those 709,000 viewers they would have to buy spots on two different networks,