Fox News Ratings Slump In Post Trump Failure. CNN Now Number One...

PoliTalker said:
Hello Darth,



CNN was the original 24 hour cable news network. They captured the number 1 spot a long time ago, before Fox.

Fox got the number one spot because they were they only major source of right wing news. The left was spread all over the place, watching all the other channels, using the internet. Liberals were not so united about having just one source of information. If you added up all those other sources it equaled the viewership of Fox.

Basically, the more diverse left watched / used many sources and the right mostly only watched one source, watched Fox. That's the only reason Fox was #1.

So now the right is torn apart. It wasn't a very cohesive group anyway. Traditional Republicans had to either accept Trump radicalism or leave the party. That put them in the very uncomfortable position of supporting the hate vote. It's one thing to prefer smaller government, but it is quite another to hate all government. Well, that all blew up in their faces on 1-6. Now, there is no clear path on how to deal with it. If they support hate, they are supporting a violent overthrow of the US government. That's not what the traditional Republicans ever stood for. That's too much for them to get behind. They prefer working within the system, not blowing it up. Blowing things up is radical extremism, not the mainstream right.

They went along with the hate vote as long as they could use it to work within the system, but on 1-6 that came to a crossroads. Now they have to decide which way to go.

Fox supported all that nonsense which led up to 1-6.

People on the right are distancing themselves from that, distancing themselves from Trump, from the Republican Party for allowing him, and distancing themselves from Fox.

It suddenly became all too apparent for them that it was not heading in a good direction.

Took 'em long enough!

I always wondered what it would take for the right to begin seeing that Trump was full of crock.

I thought after he took office and began to do and say stupid stuff they would wake up and move away from him. It made no sense when they didn't. It was bizarre how much Trump could get away with and the right bought in and supported it. But then I never watched Fox. Musta been some big bad juju propaganda to keep the ruse going that long.

I'm glad so many on the right finally figured out the king has no clothes.

I forgive those who have been taken in and feel like their sensibilities have been taken advantage of. I welcome my fellow Americans back from the long darkness. I welcome you all back to American unity. No, we do not have to agree on issues. It would be wrong if we did. What we do need to agree on is that America was great before Trump, we already share a great country, with great differences, problems and issues we would like to solve, but hatred is not the way forward.
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Tell it to the haters.
 
Hello Darth Omar,

Darth Omar said:
Tell it to the haters.
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It's OK to disagree.

It is not OK to hate.

We can be unified and still disagree.

We cannot harbor hatred and be unified.

Hatred just eats people up inside. You can't have a mutually respectful conversation with somebody who hates you (for whatever reason.)
 
Hello BartenderElite,

BartenderElite said:
We need to get our news networks back to being actual news networks.

There really isn't one left that reports without bias. I do think Fox was at a different level as far as that goes: they were strictly a campaign arm of Trump over the past 4 years.
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They worked it for all the profit they could.

Man, did they ever play up the bitter division angle. Sure stoked that fire. They sensationalized the whole thing. They rode that Trump ticket for all the attention they could get, all the advertising they could sell, and all the dollars they could rake in. I don't think there was any consideration for what it might do to the country. It appears that responsible journalism was the furthest thing from their minds.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Cinnabar,



I hear ya.

It's very frustrating, isn't it?

I have been quite troubled with the softball questions of professional journalists for a long time.

I tried to put myself in their position. I sit there watching the screen and I want to scream. Why don't they press for an actual answer?

It is so frustrating to see a good question being asked, and then hear the politician essentially reject the question out of hand, then go on to talk for 5 minutes about whatever they wanted to talk about anyway, and never actually answer the question. Even when the question is posed so simply that it only required a yes or no answer.

And they never get the yes or no answer, do they?

Very frustrating.

Why don't they follow up?

Here is what is really going on. The politician is not going to answer those questions, ever. So they are going to use all their little tricks to get out of it. They could just come right out and bluntly say: "I am not going to answer that," but they don't want that appearance. So they play the all-too-familiar game. Kellyanne Conway was one of the worst. She would never shut up. If allowed, she would talk for 15-20 minutes, just go on and on, rambling from one thing to another, nothing to do with the question asked. An interviewer would have to interrupt her to regain control of the program. Conway would gladly eat up all your on-air time just talking about whatever she had prepared to say.

If the interviewer is too aggressive, they would get a reputation as a hardball and they would not even get any interviews in the first place. No politician would agree to be on their show. That's why they have to let the politicians have plenty of latitude on their answers. They can press the issue up to a point, but if they go too far they should know they are putting themselves out of business and losing their position.

So they have to have some guidelines to preserve the status quo.

It's pretty annoying for we the viewers, isn't it?

I hope you get a response from that assemblyman.

I wouldn't count on it.

They can't be honest and candid. They have to assume that anything they say to anybody can be used against them. That's why they learn to be very careful about what they say. It's all 'on the record.'
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Many Repubs have adopted that technique. In an 8 minute interview, they talk for 7 not allowing questions. Kellyanne needed a sedative. She took it to levels no one else did or would.
 
Hello evince,

evince said:
Everything trump touches dies
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He has a way of spoiling things.

His all consuming greed is larger than any other part of him. It's what he is all about.

And that's saying a lot, considering the size of his ego.
 
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