New York – Fox News Channel more than doubled the audience it had for the 2006 midterm election.
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The Nielsen Co. said Wednesday that just under 7 million people watched Fox’s election coverage Tuesday night, a rough night for President Barack Obama. In 2006, which was a rough night for President George W. Bush, the network had 3.1 million viewers.
CNN had 2.4 million viewers on Tuesday night, while MSNBC had 1.9 million. Nielsen had no immediate estimate of the audience for the broadcast networks, promising it for Thursday.
Each of the cable networks had a smaller audience than in 2008, when Obama was elected. The difference was most stark at CNN, which had an election night audience of 12.3 million two years ago.
Sure it was, people like entertainment. Fox is only fair and balanced if you ignore the well-known bias of its owners.
It makes sense that they had most of the audience because there was general anticipation of GOP taking over. So it’s only natural for people to jump to FOX for best news coverage on Republicans and Tea Party.
Fox News Corp openly donated millions to the GOP to support some of their candidates. You can’t get more biased than that and then advertise yourself as “fair and balanced.” In the professional world, it’s called conflict of interest. CNN and MSNBC nor any of the networks have ever donated to Democratic Party for political campaigns. Nor do they hire pundits to present news opinions who then themselves run in political campaigns. Murdoch has turned Fox channel into Pravda or Russia 1 Putin’s channel. Just because some of their programming is entertaining and looks professional and their female anchors must look like supermodels, you can’t forget that it’s a 24/7 front for the GOP.
I’ve found Fox to be generally fair. The only thing that I don’t like about Fox, is when O’Reilly goes ballistic every year, with his emphasis on people saying “Merry Christmas” in the department stores; also, I’m not a fan of Gerlado Rivera, who insulted Michelle Malkin. However, I like seeing Bernard Goldberg and Dick Morris (two landsmen). CNN is not bad; Wolf Blitzer at times gets repititious. Regarding MSNBC, it still employs Pat Buchanan, who recently protested that the U.S. Supreme Court “was now 33% Jewish” (his own words). The CBS Network and its evening news has really gone downhill in recent years, also.
im sure obama is really happy about that
Nobody can point a finger at MSNBC and not point the same finger at Fox News. Both are mouthpieces for their respective parties. It is that simple.
Both networks have ONE genuinely unbiased journalist: Chris Wallace at FNC and Joe Scarborough at MSNBC. They do this to maintain SOME degree of journalistic integrity.
Anyone who thinks FNC is any better than MSNBC when it comes to bias is only fooling themselves and showing the world just how ignorant they really are.
The fact is, FNC has better entertainers. Their shows are more entertaining. They pay for bigger names to appear on their network (Huckabee, Palin, Rove, etc).
No matter how bias either one is, nobody should EVER believe anything that anyone says on cable news without verifying it for themselves. Use fact checking web sites like politifact.com and factcheck.org. They will provide actual facts and provide sources that you can look at for yourself. It is very sad that in this day and age we cannot even trust our news media to be anything more than cheap entertainers.