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According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around half of his audience in the weeks after the election

Fox News to Shut Down for Routine Maintenance Monday Morning at 11:30

WOW is this typical for this news channel...


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/01/fox-news-to-shut-down-for-routine-maintenance-monday-morning-at-1130.html#ixzz2ISGsl5Da

WEST LIBERTY, W.VA. (WTOV) – Students studying at West Liberty University have a syllabus that bans FOX News as a source in papers. They are being told what sources they can use in a political science course. The courses syllabus recommends that they not use the satirical news source, The Onion, and the right leaning source FOX News.

FNC garnered 2.874 million viewers...

EVENING NEWS (Week of April 15, 2013)

Total Viewers Adults 25-54 Households
ABC 8,488,000 2.0/8; 2,338,000 5.8/12
NBC 9,834,000 2.5/9; 2,967,000 6.6/13
CBS 7,281,000 1.7/6; 2,018,000

I didn't know those were cable news networks.

It used to be that whenever an important news story broke, cable television viewers would quickly turn to CNN for must-see coverage of what was happening. However, according to a poll conducted regarding the five-day coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, that is definitely no longer the case.

The survey, which was conducted by the liberal Huffington Post website and the international marketing agency YouGov, determined that former titan CNN came in as far less trustworthy than Fox News over which was the most believable cable news channel. [...]

Of course, all cable news outlets saw their viewership rise sharply because of their coverage of the bombing and subsequent search for the terrorists behind it.

As a result, 38 percent of the respondents said the channel was “very” or “somewhat” believable, and 21 percent said it was “not very” or “not at all believable.”

Also, MSNBC had no reason to smile since the poll indicated that 42 percent of the people polled “don’t watch” the channel. In addition, the liberal channel fared poorly in the “very” or “somewhat” believable category with 35 percent.

However, the survey brought good news for the Fox News Channel, which had a 50 percent rating in the categories of “very” and “somewhat” believable even though 28 percent of those polled said they don’t watch the cable news outlet, which is far less than its competitors.

The point is that over 25 million people get real news from the three networks while only 2.8 million low information morons get crap on Fox. And then there are pinheads who are stupid enough to brag about it.