Fox News Dominates Cable Ratings, Donates $1 Million to Republicans

mid-week politics with the attacker hurt dislocated back to you giving away i've had in honor of the five year anniversary of mid-week politics log on to me to be politics dot com to find out more about that knows checking out the latest cable news readings the other day lewis and fox news is absolutely blowing people out of the water it's it's just not even close during the day fox had just a little over a million viewers the next closest of was msnbc and cnn both around three hundred and fifty thousand viewers i mean it's less than half of those viewers and in prime time it even more believable fox at about one point six million viewers on a random night last week and the next closest was msnbc with six hundred thousand which is about a third of that it's it's pretty amazing maybe this isn't a surprise right admin we could think of a number of reasons why this would be the first is that and i mean it's the only network that has a very specific viewpoint right constituency modern viewpoint moderate and liberal viewers may be getting split-up among all of the other networks along with some conservatives right wears on fox it's mostly conservatives watching that say i watch fox more than any of the others just because i'm curious what are they covering how are they covering it i would assume i'm probably exception to the rule right i would assume most of the people watching fox news are not watching it because they're interested in critiquing it there watching it because it is preaching to the choir so sorry but at the same time you have to admit it makes for slightly more interesting television regardless of whether in anger critiquing it there might be a bit more entertaining his more interesting that they're biased or the weights produces more entertain the waste produced i agree with that any fox has very good production value if you just look at the shows attractiveness of the anchors aside wished is absolutely a factor as we know the infotainment factor of how foxnews is producing its news certainly is affecting i think the ratings and that that we would be we would be lying if we said that they don't do the job that that would be not definitely now larry well the weather that leaves people better informed whether it gives people a more honest fair and balanced to quote foxnews themselves version of the news probably not right i mean just for comparison sake sit-down behind her someone sit down and watch fox news for an hour just about any show doesn't really matter and then watch democracy now for an hour i mean by comparison democracy now will just seemed in terms of what is your velvet oleoyls own or just in terms of sheer entertainment value production value right so certainly as people flip past the channels it is much more likely that something going on on the screen on fox news will draw there are more than something that on on number of other channels and program for sure well does anyone even believe fox news is fair and balanced at this point we mentioned last week this million dollar donation to the g_o_p_ governors association specifically two elected republican governors this november you would think that this would be may be covered his news on fox news technically be right but mostly be wrong in the spirit of the thing thirty nine seconds were devoted that this million dollar donation to the republican governors association that'll play those thirty nine seconds for you right now take a listen the parent company of fox news newscorp is responding to criticism from democrats over the company's donation of one million dollars to the republican governors association the head of the democratic governors association may conventional has requested that fox news use a disclaimer when covering gubernatorial races foxnews spokesman brian lewis said quote nathan stock has run its course his fifteen minutes are up time to leave the state and newscorp spokesman jack horner says it is quote patently faults that a corporate donation whether any bearing on our news gathering activities at foxnews or any other of our properties that is the fox news coverage of the fact that their parent company news corporation gave a million dollars to elect republicans over the next couple of months is that are incredible they are asking me if it's a if it's incredible that they're not covering it well they did cover it for thirty-nine second i mean this is a big story and you know what i think a disclaimer makes perfect sense if you are watching fox news it would be important to know when you're watching their coverage of governor's races that they have a horse in in the race would not immunity if you were to steer as before and after coverage of of the of governor's races on fox news by the way our parent company donated a million bucks specific candidates elected to get the republicans that we're talking about elected i think the disclaimer makes perfect sense how could you possibly believe that such a donation would not in any way influence the coverage on the channel it's a very very it difficult to believe how that would be how that would be possible would it not yes but we know where we know what's going on already it's no secret but that's fine that ives users this hearing about the coverage of the story that's actually right is not a full disclosure without something like that and what's funny is bill o'reilly can go on and on and on with it wicker balanced info if they don't at least to an extent disclosed *** fair and balanced is that there's nothing fair and balanced diet that we know what's funny is bill o'reilly can just go on and on with the spiritually theory about general electric which is the parent company of msnbc being in cahoots with obama because they supported green universe and receiving stimulus money for a while you know ferdy for doing business it makes absolutely it pales in comparison to fox giving money to elect republicans i mean get fair enough you can make the argument that the obama administration may look favorably upon g_e_ because they support agreeing universe but that does not relates specifically to individual candidates in the way that fox giving a million dollars to the to the governor's association does now media matters wants to run an ad on fox news actually telling this million dollar donation and they want to run it during bill o'reilly show i don't know whether this is going to happen i don't know whether they will allow it but here is the ad has been sent around and here's what it sounds like a special message from fox news prompted by media matters for america news corporation beliefs in the power and free markets and the republican governors association sprint business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy and that's my news corporation estimated one million dollars to it democratic governors this november paid for by media matters for america will that run on fox news it would they will refuse it on what basis nothing being said is factually untrue they did make the donation if they are married turret to refuse any advertiser dale they wish will that not create even more publicity about the donation well what do you think would would be better for the company charters it and deal with with the publicity of refusing refusing it for it to have a rich all one million plus one point six million listeners daily riders i don't know it would be worse what's incredible is that conservatives at this point if you need a lot of the conservative blogs and publications there there are no longer trying to hide the fact that fox is the republican party now they're just doing everything they can to try to defend why that's ok are thinking hardcore dart fox listener will decide later we're going to marry will just kind of tune out the bad publicity but if there were two sierra advertisement while watching your favorite show the effect of the worst i think so woolsey will see i have good last i checked before we were on the air i did not find anything confirming whether or not they would run the ad a hello this is an absolute hartman csr wire the corporate social responsibility newswire is csr wired dot com by d_n_a_ after science specializing in custom business website said d_n_a_ after signed dot com to find out more about underwriting mid-week politics visit mid-week politics dot com