First of all, I agree with Lager. Cable news falls far below network news in viewership when it comes down it. One reason is due to the bias of cable news as detailed in a study by Pew Research:

"The Fox News audience skews more ideological than that of its two main competitors. Fully, 60% of Fox News viewers describe themselves as conservative, compared with 23% who say they are moderate and 10% who are liberal, according to a 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center. By contrast, the ideological makeup of CNN viewers (32% conservative, 30% moderate, 30% liberal) and MSNBC viewers (32% conservative, 23% moderate, 36% liberal) is far more mixed."

Viewership of all cable news outlets continues to decline year over year, possibly because people are tiring of this biased representation and confrontational style of the news personalities employed by those cable news outlets.

Anyhow, no one can deny Common Sense's claim that Fox 'news' is #1 in the minuscule, shrinking sector of broadcast cable news. Congratulations on their mediocrity.

Common Sense wrote:

Heads exploding on the Exchange! 
This won't go over very well here.

Fox News Having Highest-Rated Year Ever; Tops Cable Primetime So Far

You are taunting people,,,,, with cable ratings?
Seriously?

I don't understand.
What kind of a person gets their personal validation from, I'm sorry,,,,, cable ratings?
Sad. Perhaps the saddest thing I've ever read here.

I simply don't know what else to say.
I'm incredulous.
 

Last edited by Goose (6/29/2016 3:04 pm)

Well, I think it might be understandable, Goose.  The Fox News viewership demographic feeds into the gloating about how neat it is to see Fox News leading the pack.

Older people and seniors spend more time in front of the tube.  Fox makes them feel part of the contemporary scene because to them Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc. represent all that was good, moral, and swell about the America they once knew ................... "Make America Great Again."  To them, the USA has lost it's compass and we are sinking, not changing.  Let them alone because they live in a world that is disappearing.  I'm sure our parents and their parents felt the same way as the world passed them by and they felt left out.    

Last edited by Just Fred (6/29/2016 3:21 pm)

OK . . . I'm going to have to take issue with Fred and Goose for their disparaging remarks about "older people and seniors" sitting in front of the boob tube, lapping up the biased mire served up by the talking heads, short skirts, and bubble headed kewpie dolls with push-up bras (uh-oh . . . Did I just give myself away?).

Anyhow, back to my complaint . . . I'm creeping up on 70 and I rarely watch cable news . . . Heck, I'd rather watch Wimbledon, or UEFA championships than the bitching and moaning and blaming that goes on with the cable news channels. Even when some tragedy happens, they feel the need to stay on speculating about what happened and who to blame for the incident for hours on end. I don't have that much time left to spend it watching that crap.

So, even though I'm one of those "older people", or "seniors", I choose not to waste my time watching these bozos spew their hatred, fear mongering, biased BS rather than actually reporting the news. Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him? Anyhow, I'll finish off staining my decks, mowing the grass, and maybe play a little golf rather than wasting my afternoons or evenings watching Fox 'news'.

I'd rather be wasting away again in Margaritaville.      Fins Up !