Young Viewers Avoid Fox News, Ratings Drop 30%

[CalGun]

Congrats. Brain washing leftist public education is great at teaching young people to keep their heads in the sand and ignore the truth!

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If I was some conservatives here and I was using their logic this comment would play out something like this: This means FOX sucks and it means their news is unreliable and it means that its not the truth and they suck!!!

But in reality it just means that this happens here and now and then and trends happen like this when its not around election time.

 

[Northern Light]

I used to watch Fox in the 90's but its corporate image has really changed for the worst. I can't really handle MSNBC for much the same reason. I really enjoy watching news that is not full of emotional and righteous hyperbole. The Daily Show can sometimes be amusing but again I can't stomach it for long because it's very tit for tat. I just want the facts as best they can be conveyed.

I'm really disappointed and irritated that much of our press has now become about getting the one-up on political rivals, no matter how dirty the commentary, instead of delivering crucial facts to the public. The function of the press is an informed democracy, not childish antics. I guess this is what happens when a handful of people own our entire news industry, and want to profit from it: they make sure everything is as salacious and sensationalist as possible, no matter how mundane the actual story.

I don't care how the news anchor looks, I just want the information. If I want porn I'll go online. People who need barbie to tell them the news in order for them to care are a sad reflection of what the state of our democracy has become.

 

[eohrnberger]

Honestly, the REAL ratings are vastly different than the lefty YouTube "reporter" states. Starkly different.

Not to mention, Greg Gutfeld is killing it right now. Libertarianism is catching like wildfire across college campuses everywhere....Greg has the ear of many young people.

This is the first good news of the intersection of politics and the youth that I've heard in a very long time.

Perhaps the future isn't totally lost after all. Guess we'll have to see how it turns out.

 

[rabbitcaebannog]

I like Thom Hartmann, NPR, PBS---all those "liberal bias" sources because they don't give you that corporate edge, which of course makes it non liberal bias

 

[eohrnberger]

It's already been done. People who don't have televisions. People who don't speak English. People who live in bunkers and don't regularly communicate with the outsider. These people are more knowledgeable about world events than Fox News viewers.

They found that someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer 1.04 domestic questions correctly compared to 1.22 for those who watched no news at all.

Read more: STUDY: Watching Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All - Business Insider

If I recall, that study had already been discredited.

 

[Fiddytree]

The vast majority of my broadcast news I get from the NPR app on my phone while out on runs or in my car: On Point, The Friday News Roundup, Marketplace, and To the Point among others. I feel like I am better informed on a wider variety of issues than with anything on TV other than maybe PBS Newshour, or with world news Sky News. I am 37. A lot of people I know in their late 20s and 30s are the same way.

If you like people yelling at each other then Fox News and MSNBC are your best bet. If you like calm, rational, in depth discussion on a wide variety of current events and issues, then you won't find it on those outlets.

PBS and C-SPAN are good options.

 

[Rocketman]

Or her...

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Is that the nerdy guy from Christine?

 

[Sunzi]

It amazes me how many young people think the Daily Show is a news program.

Oh man

 

[loader]

Young people do not watch TV. Any TV. I have two children. 35 and 29 years old. In their homes simply do not TV-sets and radio. Computers and Internet replace them all. They do not even know who is "Curve Rachel" or "Beauty Meigan".

 

[Smeagol]

If im super bored i watch CNN. I nightly watch PBS.
Every now and then i would watch Madow.
I watch the Daily Show a day late.
Other than that i dont watch any TV "news". If im at my Universities Student Union FOX is always on so when im eating lunch or chilling between class thats what i watch. Other than that i get my "news" form the Papers, a ton of internet News sites bet it "mainstream" or "independent"

I'm enjoying the NFL payoffs and for my info fix, my Roku player. I just discovered a new channel (new for me at least,) called Livestream. It lets you watch the local newscasts from about 30 American cities live in HD. Between live newscasts, they repeat the most recent one until the next live newscast. For some reason I'm drawn to KHON Honolulu. Maybe it creates the mentality that I'm there. If I keep it up, when I do finally get around to visiting, I'll know more about what's going on in Hawaii than people living there. :lol:

 

[blackjack50]

The thing here is cable is losing viewers to other Video options quite constantly. Fox viewership fell 5% from 2013, MSNBC fell 21%
Total viewers Daytime Primetime
Fox..............1,760,000..1,100,000
CNN................413,000.....586,000
MSNBC............384,000.....640,000

Fox remains top cable news channel in 2013

Young viewer just aren't attached to cable as we old folks are.

Yea. True enough. I read a lot of my news on my phone. Google it. Age of the Internet.

 

[MichaelJR]

Yeah, RONPAUL2012 worked out real well. Greg Gutfeld is a ****ing moron.

Ron isn't a Libertarian. He shares some Libertarian ideology, but that's about it.

As for Greg...please, take your pick of MSNBC show personalities...and have a 'debate-off'.
Al Sharpton, sounds like Bill Cosby the huffed glue for 50 years.
Maddow, blind by her own arrogance, emotions over logic. Smart when she wants to be...I'd watch it.
Matthews...I think this one would be the funniest (aside from Sharpton, but that would just be sad)
Lawrence...maybe he'll bust out his fake Boston accent again to show how tough he is.
Ed...good ol' blue dog Ed. Irrelevant.
Chris Hayes...probably the only glimmer of raw intelligence on that network. I'd actually pay to see this debate. Hayes vs Gutfeld. It would be interesting to say the least, especially where they agree on most social issues.

When it comes down to it, the only two that would have a chance in a debate with Greg is Maddow and Hayes, flip a coin, decide the topic. It would be interesting to say the least.

Notice I didn't name a single other name on Fox.

I'd also LOVE to see a Greg vs Beckel debate. Bob is a smart guy, nice guy too. Same with Charles. Bill-O is a bag of wind, and Hannity is, whatever he is. I have no idea what he is.

All that being said, Greg is a lot of things...arrogant, hateful, etc....but he's certainly not moronic, and there are plenty of journalists that would agree wholeheartedly with that.
Seriously though, Hayes is Greg's only equivalent peer on MSNBC.

 

[MichaelJR]

nope.

So, Obama has lowered the deficit?

 

[MichaelJR]

Nah, it's just that libertarians generally have no idea how economics work.

Yeah, totally, especially where our entire philosophy and ideology is basically the same of the founding fathers. Damn us to hell and our free market system that managed to work 3 times longer than any of your utopias. Hey, how's Greece doing these days? Spain? Portugal? All the former soviet states? Venezuela?

Waiting for the barrage of excuses in 5, 4, 3, 2....

 

[Kobie]

Yeah, totally, especially where our entire philosophy and ideology is basically the same of the founding fathers. Damn us to hell and our free market system that managed to work 3 times longer than any of your utopias. Hey, how's Greece doing these days? Spain? Portugal? All the former soviet states? Venezuela?

Waiting for the barrage of excuses in 5, 4, 3, 2....

The Founding Fathers didn't share the same philosophy and ideology amongst themselves. Do not dare be so presumptuous as to claim to be carrying on their legacy.

 

[Kobie]

So, Obama has lowered the deficit?

Yes, yes he has, along with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Deficit and debt are two different things.

 

[Kobie]

Ron isn't a Libertarian. He shares some Libertarian ideology, but that's about it.

As for Greg...please, take your pick of MSNBC show personalities..

Stopped reading there. I don't give a **** about MSNBC. It's garbage.

 

[MichaelJR]

The Founding Fathers didn't share the same philosophy and ideology amongst themselves. Do not dare be so presumptuous as to claim to be carrying on their legacy.

So classical liberalism (yes, you hi-jacked the name), the federalist papers, the articles on confederation....don't resemble, correction, aren't mirrors of Libertarianism?

I know they certainly don't reflect a single ounce of modern liberalism. Not one iota of the leftist policy reflects anything the founding fathers wanted for this country. I dare say they would have started shooting again around 1933.

 

[Kobie]

Well I'm gonna watch the channel with the hotter news ladies.

Are you trying to say that if I had posted a more flattering picture of rachel maddow that somehow she would be in the same league as meagan kelly? I don't think so.

yeah, that's what I was trying to say. :roll:

Google Krystal Ball (lamest name ever), Abby Huntsman (John's daughter), Kelly O'Donnell -- MSNBC is not exactly bereft of "talent," ifyaknowwhatimean.

However, if you're going to base where you get your information off "who's got the hotter news babes," then you have no interest in actually being informed, just titillated.

 

[Perotista]

Yea. True enough. I read a lot of my news on my phone. Google it. Age of the Internet.

Us old foggies rely on the cable 24 hours news channels to get our news. I have an advantage here in Georgia of having a 24 hour radio news channel. It is a Cumulus radio station.

 

[Kobie]

So classical liberalism (yes, you hi-jacked the name), the federalist papers, the articles on confederation....don't resemble, correction, aren't mirrors of Libertarianism?

I know they certainly don't reflect a single ounce of modern liberalism. Not one iota of the leftist policy reflects anything the founding fathers wanted for this country. I dare say they would have started shooting again around 1933.

The Articles of Confederation were a ****show that was quickly replaced. Yay libertarianism! Proved unworkable more than 200 years ago.

 

[Removable Mind]

Us old foggies rely on the cable 24 hours news channels to get our news. I have an advantage here in Georgia of having a 24 hour radio news channel. It is a Cumulus radio station.

Man, I don't. I'm a "foggie" in all likelihood.

Wanna know what's going on here in the US...with an "objective perspective"? I "listen to BBC World News and Radio-Canada" on my computer (which backgrounds) and in my vehicles via Sirius XM radio. Well, I check in and read BBC on the net. If I wanna read news that is about as close to real news from a US source then McClatchy's site. Oh...and I dip into the Economist from time to time.

I can't listen to another idiot who claims to be a political pundit...from anybody on cable or network stations, much less the extremely biased delivery of news. I wanna hear the whole **** and nothing but the straight ****.

I think my age has helped me outgrow all of the usual bull**** we get here in America.

Sorry, I can't take it anymore. But I will say that its a dog shame that I truly believe that to get objective information I have to go outside of my own country to get it.

 

[rabbitcaebannog]

Man, I don't. I'm a "foggie" in all likelihood.

Wanna know what's going on here in the US...with an "objective perspective"? I "listen to BBC World News and Radio-Canada" on my computer (which backgrounds) and in my vehicles via Sirius XM radio. Well, I check in and read BBC on the net. If I wanna read news that is about as close to real news from a US source then McClatchy's site. Oh...and I dip into the Economist from time to time.

I can't listen to another idiot who claims to be a political pundit...from anybody on cable or network stations, much less the extremely biased delivery of news. I wanna hear the whole **** and nothing but the straight ****.

I think my age has helped me outgrow all of the usual bull**** we get here in America.

Sorry, I can't take it anymore. But I will say that its a dog shame that I truly believe that to get objective information I have to go outside of my own country to get it.

The Asian Times is a good source.

 

[Perotista]

Man, I don't. I'm a "foggie" in all likelihood.

Wanna know what's going on here in the US...with an "objective perspective"? I "listen to BBC World News and Radio-Canada" on my computer (which backgrounds) and in my vehicles via Sirius XM radio. Well, I check in and read BBC on the net. If I wanna read news that is about as close to real news from a US source then McClatchy's site. Oh...and I dip into the Economist from time to time.

I can't listen to another idiot who claims to be a political pundit...from anybody on cable or network stations, much less the extremely biased delivery of news. I wanna hear the whole **** and nothing but the straight ****.

I think my age has helped me outgrow all of the usual bull**** we get here in America.

Sorry, I can't take it anymore. But I will say that its a dog shame that I truly believe that to get objective information I have to go outside of my own country to get it.

On TV I usually am switching back and forth between Fox and CNN. The daytime news is pretty much the same on each station. It is all those talk show hosts during prime time where most of bias is concentrated and I like you, never watch or listen to them. But like you, I am old enough and been around the block probably more times than one can count. I know when I am being feed news or news with a slant towards one party or the other. I seen it way too many times.

 

[Removable Mind]

The Asian Times is a good source.

Thanks...I'll check that out. I think somebody mentioned that the other day in another thread.