Does the election spell the end of FOX News dominance

Where the heck are you getting those numbers? I've never seen a cable newser at less than 0.1 Nielsen at any point during the day (and that is usually MSNBC), which translates to 100,000.

Do you really think Fox News was averaging 8K people viewing during the run up to the war? O'Reilly alone gets about 2 mil for the first run of his show each night.

Check out these numbers from around the time frame you reference...

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C80858%7C1%7C,00.html

 

This post aged especially well.

 

The only way Fox loses influence on the right is if a less-responsible, more hard-line conservative news network comes along.

 

Coincidentally enough, I was just going to post that.

 

Irk: spellcheck!

Or at least sound it out in your head and realize the number of syllables that you wrote are WAY fucking wrong.

“hemroids”


LMAO.

 

Obama's election was pure ratings gold for Fox News.

From NYT, Jan. 18, 2009:

Even some of Fox’s vocal critics think that Fox will thrive in the coming years. “Fox is in a much better position with a liberalish Democrat in the White House than they were with a Republican,” said Eric Alterman, the media columnist for The Nation magazine.

He contends that Fox sells a simple message to its audience. “The things that Obama faces are very complicated and very large, and a lot of things are going to go wrong, especially with the spending levels we’re seeing,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of things that you can point your finger at and say, ‘Yeah, we were right,’ ” he said, referring to critics of Mr. Obama.

“That’s a much simpler thing for them to do,” Mr. Alterman added, “than to defend a failed war and a failed president.”

Had it been Jeb or Marco or whoever else, Fox's ratings would have been hit. Trump is Fox News manifest. So he boosts their ratings. For now.