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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: 240B on June 02, 2017, 08:17:41 pm
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Daily Wire
BY: JOHN NOLTE
JUNE 2, 2017
The concept of Fox News is so brilliantly simple — hey, let's launch a news network that doesn’t hate Middle America — that the only way to kill a Fox News is to convince it to kill itself, which is exactly what the silver-spooned Murdoch sons have done in forcing out Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly. For the first time in, what — a decade?, Fox News has lost a vitally important ratings crown to, ohmydeargawd, MSNBC.
What matters in the business of television is the demo, the 25-54 advertiser-coveted age range. That is where the bragging rights are, and in that arena …
MSNBC finished May as the No. 1 cable news network in the advertiser-friendly A 25-54 demo for weekday prime (Mon-Fri, 8 – 11 p.m.), per Nielsen. This is the first time the network has defeated both Fox News and CNN on weeknights in the demo since September 2000.
And the #1 cable news personality for the month of May? MSNBC's conspiracy theorist Rachel Maddow.
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http://www.dailywire.com/news/17080/suicide-era-fox-news-over-msnbc-takes-month-may-john-nolte#
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a news network that doesn’t hate Middle America
That's a good description of what FNC was.
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That's a good description of what FNC was.
More like, "a news network that doesn’t hate Middle America.......quite as much."