Why are FOX news ratings so high?

[eagle1462010]

 

[PredFan]

Reading some of the other threads on here, the issue that FOX news dominates the ratings wars often comes up.......A recent survey finds that right wingers, in general, do NOT trust any other news source BUT Fox.

On the surface, right wingers will "conclude" that since Fox ranks so high, it must be "good" and "trustworthy.".................But is this really the conclusion that should be readily accepted?

Now, I'm sure that right wingers on here will quickly respond that any criticism of Fox's high ratings is based on envy...or liberal spin and biases.

However, for the more open-minded fellow posters, a simple explanation may make sense.

Let's say that the entire rating system was comprised of 10 people; 4 of whom are conservatives and the other 6 span the political spectrum from liberal to independent.....

Now, the 4 conservative faithfully and unwaveringly watch Fox giving that cable network 40% ratings......while the other six watch...CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Al-Jazeera-America, Russia-Today, ABC and several other Internet-based news sources (especially for the younger generation).......

It should not be too difficult to then conclude that no other competitor to Fox would even remotely come close to that network's 40% rating.

Yet, the question remains: Is this dominance by Fox in the ratings' war a good or bad thing for the conservative movement, ideology and growth ?

Are you REALLY interested? I have the answer for you but don't waste my time. If you just want to bash FOX well, we are all bored with that nonsense already.

bored? its a social and psychological phenomena. How could a few million people demand to be spoon fed so much misinformation on a daily basis

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz......

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Why are FOX news ratings so high?

It's on in every retirement home...

It's also on the in the most exclusive hotels and motels.

That used to be true but not anymore.

People really are seeing that they're being lied to and businesses don't appreciate liars in their lobbies.

They will always have their core audience - the whiners who fantasize that Obama the MuslinKenyanCommieSocialistMarxistFascistYaddaYadda is coming for their guns but intelligent people are going elsewhere to get real news instead of the wacko lies.

 

[AquaAthena]

FOX News has high ratings because they have quality reporters who do good solid journalism.Let me be clear when I say reporters I mean just that people like Chris Wallace, Bret Bair James Rosen, Carl Cameron, Ed Henry, Jennifer Griffen.

You're referring there to the actual news segments. That's not what sells. Prime time is what sells, and that is devoted to commentary.

And you left out Shepard Smith. Any particular reason?

No real reason I felt I had made my point besides Smith I also could have listed Greta Van Ssusteren and Shannon Bream. As for prime time here the 5,6,7,8,and 9 pm shows are Special Report with Bret Bair, On the Record with Greta, O'Reilly Factor, Megyn Kellys the Kelly file, and Hannity. The only one I consider to be just truly partisan talking points is Hannity.

The Factor is my fave, but lately Bill has gone too soft in ways he didn't used to be, so I tune into Hannity, also. I don't watch him when he has panels on, however. I don't care for programs that encourage more than one person speaking at the same time, unless briefly.

Bill, IMO, is trying too hard to please his liberal base and I feel it is disingenuous ( hate that overused word ) I feel Bill is being pressured to do this, but who knows. I know that Bill has the best program for my needs and he is the most masterful of all the anchors. He packs much variety into one hour. I like his guests.

I also know that Fox News Channel has the best breaking news of the day, and that Fox Business Network also has the best breaking financial news of the day. I like hard news channels. I trust Fox! Go Roger Ailes....you are one marketing genius.

 

[BULLDOG]

Maybe it's the same reason Jerry Springer gets such high ratings.

Viewers are bored suckers...

I have been reading about "FOX NEWS" on messageboards for years. -----
what is the obsession all about? -------

The obsession is that the left can't stand anyone opposing their agenda.....and Fox cable news actually has real conservatives on their shows and they are allowed to explain their views and opinions....they also have as many left wingers on to express their views and opinions, but the left can't have anyone who disagrees with them have an outlet to speak....

That is also why you find conservative speakers being kept off college campuses....

Fox does invite people from the left to appear on their network, but they do not allow them the time to complete a sentence. It's always a confrontational discussion with multiple right wingers who are allowed, or even encouraged to interrupt the one liberal.

-- which further boils the whole stewpot of conflict on which it thrives. Their leftist-lite guests they let through the cracks serve a useful purpose, presenting a foil (a wafer-thin aluminum foil) through which the Sean Hannitys can poke pointed sticks. All of that generates conflict, with the audience's favorite team inevitably winning, which is what draws and keeps viewers. In that sense it's no different that WWE. They just dress differently .

Exactly. The Washington Generals served the same purpose for the Globetrotters. It was their job to lose and make the Globetrotters look good. Fox thinks of Hannity as their version of Curley Neal, but Neal actually had some talent.

 

[PredFan]

Why are FOX news ratings so high?

It's on in every retirement home...

It's also on the in the most exclusive hotels and motels.

That used to be true but not anymore.

People really are seeing that they're being lied to and businesses don't appreciate liars in their lobbies.

They will always have their core audience - the whiners who fantasize that Obama the MuslinKenyanCommieSocialistMarxistFascistYaddaYadda is coming for their guns but intelligent people are going elsewhere to get real news instead of the wacko lies.

Yeah and you morons have been telling us for years that FOX is going down, and that people are getting wise to them. Yet they keep kicking your asses day after day year after year, etc.

 

[Pogo]

FOX News has high ratings because they have quality reporters who do good solid journalism.Let me be clear when I say reporters I mean just that people like Chris Wallace, Bret Bair James Rosen, Carl Cameron, Ed Henry, Jennifer Griffen.

You're referring there to the actual news segments. That's not what sells. Prime time is what sells, and that is devoted to commentary.

And you left out Shepard Smith. Any particular reason?

No real reason I felt I had made my point besides Smith I also could have listed Greta Van Ssusteren and Shannon Bream. As for prime time here the 5,6,7,8,and 9 pm shows are Special Report with Bret Bair, On the Record with Greta, O'Reilly Factor, Megyn Kellys the Kelly file, and Hannity. The only one I consider to be just truly partisan talking points is Hannity.

The Factor is my fave, but lately Bill has gone too soft in ways he didn't used to be, so I tune into Hannity, also. I don't watch him when he has panels on, however. I don't care for programs that encourage more than one person speaking at the same time, unless briefly.

Bill, IMO, is trying too hard to please his liberal base and I feel it is disingenuous ( hate that overused word ) I feel Bill is being pressured to do this, but who knows. I know that Bill has the best program for my needs and he is the most masterful of all the anchors. He packs much variety into one hour. I like his guests.

I also know that Fox News Channel has the best breaking news of the day, and that Fox Business Network also has the best breaking financial news of the day. I like hard news channels. I trust Fox! Go Roger Ailes....you are one marketing genius.

There again, the definition of "success" -- is it to inform, or is it to milk eyeballs for the advertiser? Clearly it's the latter, but what's kinda hard to figure out is that its targets willingly acknowledge they're being milked. See post 82, where I and others clicked "agree" -- for apparently different reasons. What theirs is has yet to be explained.

Having said that, Lady Qua Qua if you and I were curled up in front of Fox Noise I'm thinkin' I could get your mind off of Bull O'Reilly wid a quickness....

I know whatcha mean about "disingenuous". For us fast typers it makes the hands slow down.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

11 pages and liberals aren't obsessed?

Laughable

 

[Moonglow]

11 pages and liberals aren't obsessed?

Laughable

Shouldn't you be working?

 

[Dragonlady]

Fox actually has good accurate reporting.

MSNBC spouts Liberal talking points. That's why their ratings are tanking.

Get over the fact that a whole lot of people think the Liberals' garbage isn't worth listening to.

Wrong. Fox had the LEAST reliable news coverage of any network. Their news is both inaccurate and misleading. Fox viewers are the least informed audience in the US.

I have friends who watch BBC and other out of country news sources for accurate reliable reporting.

I watch and read Canadian newspapers and TV news.

 

[Pogo]

11 pages and liberals aren't obsessed?

Laughable

Not sure how you get 11 pages out of this site-- I have mine set to 20 posts per page and I believe that's grandfathered.

Still, it proves the point -- emotion sells. The fact that anyone gets emotionally invested in a TV channel, of all creatures, proves it. The endless parade of FNC ratings trotted out here every quarter as if they mean something in that emotional investment just further underscores it. There cannot be that many posters on this board employed in the business of buying and selling television commercial time.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Why is Fox News so popular?

That would due to the Relativist Nature of lefti- think and the news resources that represent that ... Which today comprise 99% of US TELEVISION NEWS RESOURCES.

Which is to say that reasonable people do not Trudy overt representation of Deceit, Fraud and Ignorance

 

[Obiwan]

Dragon lady

I actually use a variety of sources, and I've found Fox to be pretty consistent with the other outlets. The upside with Fox is that they frequently pick up stories the Liberal media ignores.

 

[Pogo]

Fox actually has good accurate reporting.

MSNBC spouts Liberal talking points. That's why their ratings are tanking.

Get over the fact that a whole lot of people think the Liberals' garbage isn't worth listening to.

Wrong. Fox had the LEAST reliable news coverage of any network. Their news is both inaccurate and misleading. Fox viewers are the least informed audience in the US.

I have friends who watch BBC and other out of country news sources for accurate reliable reporting.

I watch and read Canadian newspapers and TV news.

Having satellite radio in my car has been a great help, since I spend a lot of time in it --- it gives me 24 hour access to CBC.
Television, I gave that up some time ago. It's nothing but lies and superficial bullshit, because that's the nature of the medium.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

11 pages and liberals aren't obsessed?

Laughable

Not sure how you get 11 pages out of this site-- I have mine set to 20 posts per page and I believe that's grandfathered.

Still, it proves the point -- emotion sells. The fact that anyone gets emotionally invested in a TV channel, of all creatures, proves it. The endless parade of FNC ratings trotted out here every quarter as if they mean something in that emotional investment just further underscores it. There cannot be that many posters on this board employed in the business of buying and selling television commercial time.

12 pages now and this thread was trotted out by an obsessed LIBERAL

 

[Pogo]

Dragon lady

I actually use a variety of sources, and I've found Fox to be pretty consistent with the other outlets. The upside with Fox is that they frequently pick up stories the Liberal media ignores.

And what they "pick up" follows a certain pattern, for a certain purpose. Pop quiz -- what do these overhyped "stories" all have in common?

Jeremiah Wright
"Hip hop barbecue"
Henry Louis Gates
ACORN
"knockout game"
Shirley Sherrod
Van Jones

Think about it.

Fear sells.

 

[Nutz]

ANyone who relies on FNC as a news source is an idiot. They have the LEAST news of all of the networks...it is an entertainment network. Idiot teapers can't tell the difference between fact and opinion. Neither can moronic liberals who love MSNBC. Fox is NOT an news channel...it is an ENTERTAINMENT Channel. And for the stupid idiot who thinks FNC has the BEST breaking news... if there is a breaking news story, FNC is the LAST channel I would check...they don't have the resources outside of pundits pushing the teaper agenda.. FNC doesn't cover news...they are like USMB...they simply support the tea party hate narrative. The censor and edit anyone with an opposing opinion.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

FOX News has high ratings because they have quality reporters who do good solid journalism.Let me be clear when I say reporters I mean just that people like Chris Wallace, Bret Bair James Rosen, Carl Cameron, Ed Henry, Jennifer Griffen.

You're referring there to the actual news segments. That's not what sells. Prime time is what sells, and that is devoted to commentary.

And you left out Shepard Smith. Any particular reason?

No real reason I felt I had made my point besides Smith I also could have listed Greta Van Ssusteren and Shannon Bream. As for prime time here the 5,6,7,8,and 9 pm shows are Special Report with Bret Bair, On the Record with Greta, O'Reilly Factor, Megyn Kellys the Kelly file, and Hannity. The only one I consider to be just truly partisan talking points is Hannity.

The Factor is my fave, but lately Bill has gone too soft in ways he didn't used to be, so I tune into Hannity, also. I don't watch him when he has panels on, however. I don't care for programs that encourage more than one person speaking at the same time, unless briefly.

Bill, IMO, is trying too hard to please his liberal base and I feel it is disingenuous ( hate that overused word ) I feel Bill is being pressured to do this, but who knows. I know that Bill has the best program for my needs and he is the most masterful of all the anchors. He packs much variety into one hour. I like his guests.

I also know that Fox News Channel has the best breaking news of the day, and that Fox Business Network also has the best breaking financial news of the day. I like hard news channels. I trust Fox! Go Roger Ailes....you are one marketing genius.

Roger Ailes is also on Orwell Rolls In His Grave, talking about how saying "fair and balanced" constantly will make people ignore the lies. He is very clear in how they can get away with lying. He's on camera saying Glenn Beck should say people should look up and verify what he says because it will make people accept his lies.

Watch the documentary. Just watch it.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Other than the fact that it reports the news. Seriously....get over it. I understand that Fox News can be wrong and full of bias but, news flash, so does every other news network in the history of the world. I applaud your scepticism towards a media outlet but why not apply that to every other media outlet in the world such as cnn , msnbc, etc etc. you can't tell me they are not bias at all considering every potential story that can damage Obama is never shown. Do you think that is a coincidence?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

ANyone who relies on FNC as a news source is an idiot. They have the LEAST news of all of the networks...it is an entertainment network. Idiot teapers can't tell the difference between fact and opinion. Neither can moronic liberals who love MSNBC. Fox is NOT an news channel...it is an ENTERTAINMENT Channel. And for the stupid idiot who thinks FNC has the BEST breaking news... if there is a breaking news story, FNC is the LAST channel I would check...they don't have the resources outside of pundits pushing the teaper agenda.. FNC doesn't cover news...they are like USMB...they simply support the tea party hate narrative. The censor and edit anyone with an opposing opinion.

They get away with lying in 82% of their stories. They even went to court to get permission to lie to their audience.


Fox News gets okay to misinform public court ruling Media Reform CeaseSPIN.org


Appellate Court Rules Media Can Legally Lie.
By Mike Gaddy. Published Feb. 28, 2003


The court did not dispute the heart of Akre’s claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers. Fox argued from the first, and failed on three separate occasions, in front of three different judges, to have the case tossed out on the grounds there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate distortion of the news.


The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.


In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a “policy,” not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was “totally vindicated” by the verdict.