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UTUSN

(70,703 posts)
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 10:50 AM Dec 2012

Hannity loser by half of audience; O'LOOFAH kept 70%; Rachel & Ed held; but Faux still up

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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/sean-hannity-big-loser-2012-election-article-1.1228269#ixzz2GXos82n3

[font size=5]Political commentator Sean Hannity was one of the big losers in the 2012 election
The right-wing Fox News host lost half his audience in the weeks after Obama's win[/font]

.... According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox News colleague Bill O’Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his audience. ....

Wrote ...(Conor Friedersdorf ... in The Atlantic) : “The right-leaning outlets like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh’s show are far more intellectually closed than CNN or public radio. If you’re a rank-and-file conservative, you’re probably ready to acknowledge that ideologically friendly media didn’t accurately inform you about Election 2012. Some pundits engaged in wishful thinking; others feigned confidence in hopes that it would be a self-fulfilling prophecy; still others decided it was smart to keep telling right-leaning audiences what they wanted to hear.” ....

Adding insult to injury, two of Hannity’s rivals on MSNBC, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow, held onto huge chunks of their audiences, while at CNN, far less politically polarizing host Anderson Cooper lost almost none of his viewers postelection.

Despite the dip, at the end of the day, Fox News remains the dominent news channel, and will in fact call 2012 one of its best years ever. ....

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Hannity loser by half of audience; O'LOOFAH kept 70%; Rachel & Ed held; but Faux still up (Original Post) UTUSN Dec 2012 OP
Just for the sake of actual facts and clarity...when this article says: Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #1
Yip. n/t UTUSN Dec 2012 #2
If you check the TVs in waiting rooms, you'll find it is turned to FOX. Frustratedlady Dec 2012 #3
MSNBC or Headline News are the stations of choice in the waiting rooms in the catbyte Dec 2012 #4
I've asked whoever is at the desk to please turn the from that horrible fake news channel Maraya1969 Dec 2012 #5
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
1. Just for the sake of actual facts and clarity...when this article says:
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 10:59 AM
Dec 2012

" Fox News remains the dominent news channel" it should read 'top rated cable commentary outlet'.
The vast majority of Americans who watch TV news watch it on one of the 'Big Three' broadcast networks. FoxNews actual numbers of viewers are and always have been small and only look better when compared to other cable news/commentary outlets which have even smaller audiences. The trend is as the piece says, in favor of MSNBC and against FoxNews...

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. If you check the TVs in waiting rooms, you'll find it is turned to FOX.
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 11:10 AM
Dec 2012

If no one is watching, I turn it to another channel. My little contribution to sanity.

catbyte

(34,398 posts)
4. MSNBC or Headline News are the stations of choice in the waiting rooms in the
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 11:35 AM
Dec 2012

hospitals & doctor's offices in my local health care network. Small blessings!

Maraya1969

(22,482 posts)
5. I've asked whoever is at the desk to please turn the from that horrible fake news channel
Sun Dec 30, 2012, 11:43 AM
Dec 2012

It usually works except one time I got mad and the doctor got mad, (he wasn't my doctor so I ran into my room and closed the door)

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