Rachel Maddow's Surge Is Fox News' Worst Ratings Nightmare
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After prophesying a landslide win for Mitt Romney, Fox News has seen its ratings decline a lot more than usual since the election — and Sean Hannity's viewers in particular keep disappearing, while Rachel Maddow's continue to tune in over at rival MSNBC.
The last batch of Nielsen data
available before year's end shows Hannity's viewership getting chopped
in half after November 6, according to the New York Daily News's Don Kaplan. Politico's Dylan Byers argues
this decline simply brings Hannity back to pre-election norms. Or
perhaps these vanishing viewers are just disgruntled voters who can't
stomach the news cycle anymore. Kaplan, however, attributes this decline
to Hannity's implied predictions:
... viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz — who both, of course, did not predict a Romney victory — have retained most of their viewership in the weeks following election night, and CNN's Anderson Cooper has lost almost none. With ratings holding strong after Obama's reelection and Maddow appearing on The Colbert Report, it appears like MSNBC is making good on president Phil Griffin's plan to bolster the channel's brand awareness.
But these trends may began long before Hannity and other Fox News commentators led viewers to believe Romney was a shoe-in. Media blog News Corpse notes
that throughout 2012, Fox News experienced by far the slowest
year-over-year growth amongst the three major cable news channels. And
even though MSNBC has captured many more eyeballs within the lucrative
25-54 demographic, Fox News still retains primetime dominance in the world of 24-hour TV news. What's left for CNN next year, well, that's up to new boss Jeff Zucker to decide.
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I tend to watch CNN news the most because it is non-partisan whereas Fox is ultra-conservative and MSNBC with Rachel Maddow is ultra Liberal. So, I tend to want more rational news and less partisan news. I grew up around very partisan people and what I found is that life can get kind of scary when people are too partisan one way or the other. Reason and logic leave when people get too partisan and people get hurt and sometimes die because of being too partisan one way or the other. However, if I'm Listening to Sirius XM Satellite radio cable in my truck while driving or traveling whenever a commercial comes on CNN Channel 115 I turn to MSNBC which I think is 117 or BBC news 118? if I'm in the mood for news. Otherwise I listen to 96 which is a clean comedy network and other stuff depending upon my mood and whether or not I'm traveling a long distance or not in my 4WD truck. If one or more of my kids are with me it is usually some kind of music or dub step or rock and roll or popular that they want to listen to. And then I have to remember to take my hearing AIDS out so I don't damage my hearing. If my wife and I are traveling together we might listen to a book on CD or one of the book channels on Sirius Satellite reading book excerpts.
By the way if you are new to wearing hearing aids don't open your window in the car or listen to loud music with them in because even though you can't tell you are injuring your ears, you usually are.
Note: The original reason that I posted this article is that it is further evidence that the Republican Party may be committing suicide as far as the general Electorate is concerned. If they can't take care of their people and solve problems by negotiation what good are they? Remember this isn't a statement of truth I'm making here, it is only a question and Republicans of all shapes and stripes will answer this one themselves in the coming months.
Note: The original reason that I posted this article is that it is further evidence that the Republican Party may be committing suicide as far as the general Electorate is concerned. If they can't take care of their people and solve problems by negotiation what good are they? Remember this isn't a statement of truth I'm making here, it is only a question and Republicans of all shapes and stripes will answer this one themselves in the coming months.
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