FOX News takes major hit in viewership--the Trump effect.

[oreo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

 

[Lakhota]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

Thank you, Jesus! Maybe the world is starting to correct itself.

 

[Pogo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

I'm sure that's a fascinating article, if I hadn't fallen asleep 8% of the way in. But the fact is, ratings don't measure any kind of "assent". They never have. They measure attention, and that's it. If Fox Noise is getting good ratings it means they're snagging people into watching whatever the Fear Factor is that day. If they get bad ratings it means they're failing to do that.

That's all it means, that's all it ever meant. Audience ratings have one purpose and one purpose only: to set advertising rates, based on how many eyeballs the channel can deliver the advertiser. Regardless how it gets them.

 

[oreo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

Thank you, Jesus! Maybe the world is starting to correct itself.

It was bound to happen--54% of the Republican party voted for other candidates. While Trump touts the most votes ever received, 13.1 million he also had the most votes cast against him 16 million.
Trump got the most GOP votes ever — both for and against him — and other fun facts

FOX News was sickening, it was 24/7 unprecedented news coverage of Donald Trump for at least 3 to 4 months during the debates. Rarely did they bring up other candidates to interview it was all about Trump.

 

[Pogo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

Thank you, Jesus! Maybe the world is starting to correct itself.

It was bound to happen--54% of the Republican party voted for other candidates. While Trump touts the most votes ever received, 13.1 million he also had the most votes cast against him 16 million.
Trump got the most GOP votes ever — both for and against him — and other fun facts

FOX News was sickening, it was 24/7 unprecedented news coverage of Donald Trump for at least 3 to 4 months during the debates. Rarely did they bring up other candidates to interview it was all about Trump.

And if that's changed and it's no longer all about Rump ---- or if he's spread out to other venues ---- it just confirms what I just laid out.

 

[oreo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

I'm sure that's a fascinating article, if I hadn't fallen asleep 8% of the way in. But the fact is, ratings don't measure any kind of "assent". They never have. They measure attention, and that's it. If Fox Noise is getting good ratings it means they're snagging people into watching whatever the Fear Factor is that day. If they get bad ratings it means they're failing to do that.

That's all it means, that's all it ever meant. Audience ratings have one purpose and one purpose only: to set advertising rates, based on how many eyeballs the channel can deliver the advertiser. Regardless how it gets them.

When people TURN YOU OFF--there goes funds for advertisements, and I think there's probably millions of regular watcher's of FOX News that have turned them off permanently. These were Republicans that were gagging over the 24/7 news coverage of Donald Trump--and never saw their favorite candidates on FOX.

So with Trump goes FOX News and probably a lot of the Reich wing talk radio shows also, who have promoted this Chimpanzee nominee.

In my opinion that will be a great day.

 

[oreo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

Thank you, Jesus! Maybe the world is starting to correct itself.

It was bound to happen--54% of the Republican party voted for other candidates. While Trump touts the most votes ever received, 13.1 million he also had the most votes cast against him 16 million.
Trump got the most GOP votes ever — both for and against him — and other fun facts

FOX News was sickening, it was 24/7 unprecedented news coverage of Donald Trump for at least 3 to 4 months during the debates. Rarely did they bring up other candidates to interview it was all about Trump.

And if that's changed and it's no longer all about Rump ---- or if he's spread out to other venues ---- it just confirms what I just laid out.

You don't get it, it's too late. Republicans BLAME FOX News for Donald Trump. They will blame FOX News for Hillary Clinton getting elected. They aren't going to forgive or forget it. They've switched over to CNN and have no intentions of turning on FOX News again.

They're going to blame every Reich wing radio talk show host all the way from Mr. Talent on loan from Gawwwwd-d all the way down into local radio talk show hosts.

Donald Trump is going to get creamed on election night and he's going the Senate with him, along with a ton of seats in the house. The Republican party has way too many educated white voters in it, for them not to notice how it happened.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Yeah isn't Fox News the RINO channel these days?

 

[Pogo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

Thank you, Jesus! Maybe the world is starting to correct itself.

It was bound to happen--54% of the Republican party voted for other candidates. While Trump touts the most votes ever received, 13.1 million he also had the most votes cast against him 16 million.
Trump got the most GOP votes ever — both for and against him — and other fun facts

FOX News was sickening, it was 24/7 unprecedented news coverage of Donald Trump for at least 3 to 4 months during the debates. Rarely did they bring up other candidates to interview it was all about Trump.

And if that's changed and it's no longer all about Rump ---- or if he's spread out to other venues ---- it just confirms what I just laid out.

You don't get it, it's too late. Republicans BLAME FOX News for Donald Trump. They will blame FOX News for Hillary Clinton getting elected. They aren't going to forgive or forget it. They've switched over to CNN and have no intentions of turning on FOX News again.

TV viewers don't "blame" TV channels for anything. If they did 90% of the moronic bullshit that passes for programming would never exist.

You completely fail to understand the psychology. It's a shiny object -- that's all it is. What's actually IN the object is immaterial. The subject has been hypnotized by a swinging watch. What time it is on the watch is irrelevant.

 

[Pogo]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

I'm sure that's a fascinating article, if I hadn't fallen asleep 8% of the way in. But the fact is, ratings don't measure any kind of "assent". They never have. They measure attention, and that's it. If Fox Noise is getting good ratings it means they're snagging people into watching whatever the Fear Factor is that day. If they get bad ratings it means they're failing to do that.

That's all it means, that's all it ever meant. Audience ratings have one purpose and one purpose only: to set advertising rates, based on how many eyeballs the channel can deliver the advertiser. Regardless how it gets them.

When people TURN YOU OFF--there goes funds for advertisements, and I think there's probably millions of regular watcher's of FOX News that have turned them off permanently. These were Republicans that were gagging over the 24/7 news coverage of Donald Trump--and never saw their favorite candidates on FOX.

So with Trump goes FOX News and probably a lot of the Reich wing talk radio shows also, who have promoted this Chimpanzee nominee.

In my opinion that will be a great day.

Oh they'll be back. Again, you don't get the psychology. What Fox Noise sells is not politics. What Fox Noise sells is Fear.

 

[tinydancer]

You didn't read your own article. He's slagging FOX for being pro Rubio. Then he slags FOX for being so aggressive with Trump. Oh I'm busting a gut here.

 

[MarcATL]

If they think they're upset now, wait until Trump loses.

Then it will be bacchanal.

 

[oreo]

Yeah isn't Fox News the RINO channel these days?

No you've got it backwards. The Rino's or 70% of the Republican party just turned off FOX news, the only ones who would be watching FOX are the Trumpkins. They may just as well call it the Trump cable news network.

 

[tinydancer]

Oreo here's what you missed.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

 

[buckeye45_73]

Yeah isn't Fox News the RINO channel these days?

No you've got it backwards. The Rino's or 70% of the Republican party just turned off FOX news, the only ones who would be watching FOX are the Trumpkins. They may just as well call it the Trump cable news network.

Oh whatever, no where near the Clinton News Network with Don Lemon who sucks Obama's dick everytime he opens his mouth. I mean he makes Axelrod look non partisan.....how the fuck do you do that?

 

[Auld Phart]

50% hit?

guess that means they are only drawing 10 times(?) as many viewers as MSNBC

 

[oreo]

Oreo here's what you missed.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

You're NOT reading the entire segment.

"In a surprising development from one of the weirdest election cycle we’ve ever had, it looks like CNN has knocked Fox News from it’s enormous pedestal in the ratings game!

Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television.

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

This from Red State:
As we reported earlier today, CNN absolutely crushed Fox News in the ratings for the month of April. The numbers are harsh, and in particular, the surge of 25-54 year olds bodes ill for what was seen as the leading news network in America. While it may come as a shock to Fox News, it actually isn’t all that surprising when you think about it.

There is only one thing that has really changed over the last several months, when CNN began closing the gap: the type of coverage that Donald Trump gets. Fox News has decided to cater to a (very) vocal minority in exchange for a brief boost in ratings. Sean Hannity likes to boast of a 40% increase in his ratings, but look at Fox News overall: they are falling in a bad way. And, while the Trump supporters would love to tell you that it is because Fox News isn’t kowtowing to Trump enough, the reality of the situation is a lot simpler: They’ve alienated the legions of conservatives who turned into them to see news.

CNN, meanwhile, has been playing the long game. They’ve slowly been accumulating various right-leaning commentators of actual quality, and really kicked it up this election cycle. Their commentary is a lot more balanced than one would expect of a news channel that is seen as a beltway, liberal outlet for talking points. Granted, CNN is still not perfect, and I don’t expect it to conform to my political views, but I find it much more tolerable.

Fox News, meanwhile, has given Donald Trump the level of positive coverage that money could never (legally) buy, and as a result, they’ve dropped in the ratings. It’s no coincidence that as Trump enablers and outright supporters have focused more and more on Trump, their level of appeal has dropped. They don’t have the diversity of panelists CNN has managed to grab, and they don’t have hosts who allow both sides to speak freely.

What’s more, the rising star of Fox News, Megyn Kelly, was fast becoming the most popular personality, and then Donald Trump not only insulted her, but the network on multiple occasions met with Trump to try to work things out and get him to come back on the air. If Kelly decided not to remain with Fox News when her contract is up, Fox News would fall even further – and they would deserve it.
But WHY is CNN crushing Fox News in the ratings? | RedState

 

[tinydancer]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

I'm sure that's a fascinating article, if I hadn't fallen asleep 8% of the way in. But the fact is, ratings don't measure any kind of "assent". They never have. They measure attention, and that's it. If Fox Noise is getting good ratings it means they're snagging people into watching whatever the Fear Factor is that day. If they get bad ratings it means they're failing to do that.

That's all it means, that's all it ever meant. Audience ratings have one purpose and one purpose only: to set advertising rates, based on how many eyeballs the channel can deliver the advertiser. Regardless how it gets them.

Bingo! Best tip I got from an old program director when I first started out in music was that the songs were the fillers for the commercials. That was pure gold to making me understand the game right away.

 

[leftwinger]

first FOX RNC debate, bad gotcha question #1 Meghan Kelley after Months to prepare? The acted like it was a HS pep rally and they were the stars. I lost interest, never came back to Fox but some Hannity or Dennis Miller.

Now I have nothing but Levin, Savage when I drive car. Few part-timers, Ingrahm, Wilkow etc. BBC?

Also, commercials fill 1/2 the time. Makes people crazy. I'm about to unhook. Give up.

I agree with your wife, Fox is same. But Don Lemon, MSNBC NBC CBS ABC another level bad.......unbelievably bad.

 

[rdean]

This was bound to happen. It was FOX News that gave Trump unprecedented news coverage during the debates, and it appears that it has pissed off their number one fans. Republicans.

The Trump effect:
Just last week, a years-long tradition came to a screeching halt. “You want me to put it on Fox News,” I asked my wife. “No,” she replied. “I’m done with Fox News.”
My job is to monitor the mainstream media, which is something that eats up about 14 hours of a day that begins at 6 a.m. when the cable morning shows begin. Lying next to me, my good sport of a wife suffers through about an hour of “Morning Joe,” whatever they call that left-wing garbage fire on CNN, and the rest. Out of habit, before I head to my desk, without really asking I always ask, “You want me to put it on Fox?”

Fox News has a problem, and not just with my wife. According to a YouGov Brand Index survey, the perception of Fox News among Republicans has hit a three-year low, “has declined by approximately 50% since January of this year.”

Basically, perception of Fox News has returned to those bad old Dick Morris days after President Obama won re-election. Much of the fall has come in the last few months. There is no question that this precipitous drop is the result of Fox’s ongoing war with Donald Trump.

This might be a good time to tell you that my wife is not a Trump supporter. Her frustrations and disappointment in Fox News have nothing to do with her personal political preference. Like many, it is something much larger than that.

1) Bias

Whether or not you support Trump, FNC’s pro-Rubio/GOP Establishment bias is still as hard to swallow as the mainstream media’s left-wing bias. Bias is bias. It’s manipulative and dishonest, and no one likes to be manipulated or lied to.

Cluelessness

When it came to grasping the Trump phenomenon, Fox News was every bit as clueless and caught off guard as the BubbleDumb in the mainstream media. A few of the opinion-driven FNC pundits, like Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros, saw the writing on the wall, but they were outliers who, when you look back, only make the rest of the network look clueless, especially the straight news division.

And once the Trump phenomenon became achingly real, Fox either refused to acknowledge it, or pretended it wasn’t real.

I watch about 30 minutes of Fox News a day, the roundtable on Bret Baier’s “Special Report.” The three-person pundit panel is supposed to represent the smartest thinking in politics, and yet for months and months, every Friday during Candidate Casino, a feature where the pundits award up to a hundred chips (points) to various presidential candidates, no one would acknowledge the “Trump” writing on the wall. Some even admitted they could not acknowledge it.

Here is something I never thought I would write in my lifetime: CNN’s handling of the Republican debates has been infinitely more professional, unbiased, and fair than Fox News. It’s not even close. If you go back and look at the debates, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer have out-classed Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace, and Bret Baier by a wide margin.

When I asked my wife why she is “done” with Fox News, her answer was simply, “They’re just like all the rest.”
Trump-Effect: Fox News Channel's Brand Takes 50% Hit Among Republicans - Breitbart

"Many people are pointing to Fox News’ unrelenting pro-Trumpism for the falling numbers. Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O’Reilly have all been accused of coddling The Donald while going after his competitors. And that just doesn’t make for interesting television."

Heck he’s even gotten Megyn Kelly to befriend him, after months of very public feuding after the first Fox News debate – and Donald Trump’s supporters have been giving her death threats!!"
Fox News Takes A HUGE HIT In The Ratings - No Longer First, Here's WHY!

Trump received 400 million dollars in free media coverage in one month during the debates, most of it coming from FOX News. That's more than any other candidate in the history of this nation. Now you can kind of see what's going on with FOX News and their viewership. Fox News turned into Trump news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/u...mps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html?_r=0

Rupert and

Are not happy.