Shell shocked Fox News is like a ghost town as ratings fall and future looks uncertain

[applegrove]

by David Ferguson at Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/shell-shocked-fox-news-is-like-a-ghost-town-as-ratings-fall-and-future-looks-uncertain/

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“Weeks after the unexpected death of ousted co-founder Roger Ailes, and the shocking departures of anchor Bill O’Reilly and Ailes’s former deputy Bill Shine, whom one former Fox News executive called Ailes’s spiritual ‘brother,’ the existential angst within the company’s subterranean newsroom has reached a deeper level,” Ellison said.

The warring factions within the network mirror a generational gap between NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdock and his sons, James and Lachlan. Murdoch Senior represents the old guard within the company, who want very much to put the last year’s ugly scandal headlines behind them and soldier on.

James and Lachlan — long “embarrassed” by Fox’s right-wing bias and the exposure of the company’s frat-house culture of sexual harassment and racial bullying — represent a reformist movement within the company, which wants to shed its right-wing past and be taken more seriously as a journalistic organization.

The old guard were dealt a serious blow last week when — for the first time in decades — Fox News slipped to third place for viewer numbers in key demographics. The shine quickly wore off O’Reilly’s replacement Tucker Carlson who, after a spate of good numbers, has seen his ratings dive through the floor.


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[LisaM]

1. But the harm they caused continues

Decades of hammering away at good people and good policies paid off - even if they have to shut their doors, there's a lot of work to do undo their damage.

[lpbk2713]

2. Suffering the same fate as Ailes?

We can only hope.

[NCjack]

3. Please, crash-and-burn. nt

[Gothmog]

4. Fox would be doing much better if Hillary Clinton was POTUS

[unblock]

8. that's the crazy thing, how short-sighted the backing of trump was

they saw donnie as a ratings machine, but that was the superficial appeal.

they didn't think to realize that hillary was in fact a far more reliable ratings machine, not because she made outrageous statements or tweets, but because they had a well-established method of generating fake scandal after fake scandal with her as target.

[nycbos]

9. And Rachel, Lawerence et all are getting better ratings due to Trump.

[Major Nikon]

5. Tucker should probably start wearing a bow tie again

At least if he's going to act like a pretentious prick, he should look the part.

[TomSlick]

11. Now wait one deadgum minute!

I often wear bow ties. They're great when a meal is served. (Shirts are more easily cleaned that ties.) Why would I want to wear a flaccid tie?

That being said, I'll grant you that Tucker is a pretentious rascal.

[Major Nikon]

12. Not everyone can pull off a bow tie

Bill Nye does a good job with it, but with Tucker it simply underscored the pretentious prick factor.

[TomSlick]

14. I will allow

that wearing a bow tie requires a certain amount of "I don't give a damn what you think." A man wearing a bow tie will not follow the herd.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

13. I used to wear a bow tie to school.

[TomSlick]

15. It works!

Get a bow tie and learn to tie it. It's not that hard. It's as easy as tying your shoes -backwards - in the dark - drunk.

[stonecutter357]

6. Fox is Americans shitty underwear.

[moonscape]

7. Someone posted a great link for ratings among

CNN, MSNBC and Fox - one that is refreshed daily. I tried to find it again but couldn't - does anyone have it?

It showed ratings overall and of the demographic they mostly go after - and it was by show.

If I remember correctly, Fox was doing depressingly okay. Hannity better than I could have imagined.

The great news was that Greta's viewership dropped from MTP and then viewers came back for Chris Matthews.

Edit: found the link ... http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-thursday-june-1/331178

Hannity seems to be doing scary well.

[applegrove]

17. Scary.

[SDJay]

16. I Just Endured

About 15 minutes of Manatee. Faux is off the rails. Loretta Lynch should be investigated. Comey should be investigated. EMAILS!!!

They are shitting themselves.

The problem, of course, is millions of rubes think this is actually what played out today and what actually happened is fake news.