Link For the third quarter of 2014, Fox News not only humiliated its leftwing cable news counterparts at CNN and MSNBC during the all-important primetime hours, Fox News also beat all of cable -- all hundred or so cable channels, including perennial winners ESPN and USA. THR rightly describes this as a "historic cable ratings victory." Here are the third quarter primetime numbers: FNC: 1,797,000 viewers, up 12 percent (313,000 adults 25-54, up 12 percent) CNN: 555,000 viewers, up 2 percent (186,000 adults 25-54, up 4 percent) MSNBC: 557,000 viewers, down 2 percent (150 adults 25-54, down 21 percent) HLN: 352,000 viewers, down 4 percent (120 adults 25-54, down 12 percent) In total primteime viewers, Fox nearly doubled the leftwing CNN and MSNBC combined. In demo viewers, Fox earned almost as many as CNN and MSNBC combined. Fox is also up 12% over this same quarter last year. MSNBC sunk a whopping 21%. While CNN increased its dismal ratings a mere 4% in the demo, that apparently didn't come from an increase in viewers for CNN's news programming. The jump came from the network's move away from news and towards reality programming. In this case, Baby Boomer nostalgia: CNN, saw a rather unexpected series perched atop its own rankings. Documentary series The Sixties stands as CNN's most-watched show of the quarter, edging pasting Anderson Cooper with an average 650,000 viewers — 186,000 of them in the key demo. Hopefully this will force CNN chief Jeff Zucker to move CNN even further away from news programming. Unlike MSNBC, which to its credit is open about its biases, CNN's news coverage has taken a sharp turn left under Zucker, especially in the realm of identity politics. Over the past year, the network has become a destructive, race-baiting and anti-Christian blight on American discourse. The less news CNN does, the better it will be for all of us. Monday I pointed out the steep decline in MSNBC's primetme demo ratings. One important point I neglected to make is that this collapse occured during a time when there is a boom in national news. Betwen Ferguson, ISIS, the deaths of Robin Williams and Joan Rivers, MSNBC has no one to blame but its bland, boring, one-note self for its slow motion decline into Al Jazeera America relevance. Fox News wins because it offers reporting found nowhere else. While the whole of the MSM ignores the economy, Benghazi, the IRS, the border crisis, and anything else inconvenient to the Obama administration and the cause of government largess, Americans know they can tune into Fox for some scrutiny of these issues. Watching CNN and MSNBC circle the wagons to protect the Obama Administration from the truth is probably getting old, even for Democrats. While Fox News scrutinizes government, MSNBC and CNN protect government. Moreover, Fox News offers diverse points of view. While MSNBC is a gaggle of leftwing extremists, as is CNN (with the exception of Jake Tapper), Fox offers diverse approaches and points of view during its primetime programming. Bret Baier, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity represent a much broader spectrum than anything presented by the tired, leftwing, provincial elites at CNN and MSNBC. Fox viewers appreciate diversity, which is probably why studies have shown Fox News is able to attract more Democrats than either CNN or MSNBC.
More Good News Shilling just isn't that popular anymore. New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff By RAVI SOMAIYAOCT. 1, 2014 The New York Times plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations, offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if enough people do not leave voluntarily, the newspaper announced on Wednesday. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper’s publisher, and Mark Thompson, its chief executive, said that in addition to the job cuts, NYT Opinion, a new mobile app dedicated to opinion content, was shutting down because it was not attracting enough subscribers. The reductions, they said, were intended to safeguard the newspaper’s long-term profitability. “The job losses are necessary to control our costs and to allow us to continue to invest in the digital future of The New York Times, but we know that they will be painful both for the individuals affected and for their colleagues,” the note said. The Times’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, sent a separate note to the newsroom staff. “I will use this as an opportunity to seriously reconsider some of what we do — from the number of sections we produce to the amount we spend on freelance content,” he said. The Times is not alone in eliminating newsroom jobs. Newspapers across the country have slashed positions this year. The Wall Street Journal cut dozens of jobs this summer, USA Today eliminated 70 positions in September, and Freedom Communications carried out layoffs in January at two smaller local newspapers, The Orange County Register and The Press-Enterprise of Riverside. Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Thompson said that even with the cutbacks — 100 positions comprise about 7.5 percent of the newsroom staff — The Times would continue to expand and invest heavily in initiatives that supported its growth strategy, like digital technology, audience development and mobile offerings. But they also said they had decided to wind down NYT Opinion because it had not drawn a substantial audience. And while praising NYT Now, a new app aimed at younger readers, they said that as a lower-priced subscription offer, it had not proved as popular as they had hoped. The latest product, NYT Cooking, is not charging for a subscription but instead is trying to build a large audience before asking readers to pay. Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Thompson said that by the end of September, just two weeks after its official launch, the product had more than a million unique visitors. “They are all experiments, which we are determined to treat as such: to learn, pivot and, where necessary, make prompt decisions about them,” the note said. “We believe that this process of exploration and experimentation is essential to future growth at The New York Times and we will continue to support and fund it.” The note also said financial results from the company’s third quarter, which ended Sunday, had improved from a difficult second quarter. Digital advertising is likely to show growth of about 16 percent in the third quarter, the best quarterly performance since 2010, and digital subscriptions are expected to increase by more than 40,000, the largest number of quarterly additions since 2012. But the company’s profitability was lower than during the same period last year as costs increased. The Times has made cuts to its newsroom staff several times over the last six years. The paper eliminated 100 newsroom jobs in 2008, another 100 in 2009, and 30 more senior newsroom jobs at the beginning of last year. Despite those cuts, the newsroom staff has grown to about 1,330, approaching its largest size ever, according to the company, up from about 1,250 at the end of last year. Some of that growth is a result of adding jobs for digital efforts, like web producers and video journalists. The buyouts and layoffs are likely to create anxiety in a newsroom that has had already had an unsettling year. In May, the paper’s executive editor, Jill Abramson, was abruptly dismissed by Mr. Sulzberger after less than three years in the job. He cited issues with her management of the newsroom and replaced her with Dean Baquet, the paper’s No. 2 editor. “There is no magic bullet for the current financial plight of the news business,” Mr. Baquet wrote in his note on Wednesday. “But the journalists of The Times, with all of their creativity and belief in the future, have helped guide this company through even more turbulent times.”
It'll work until they libtard it and make it only fair-trade, organic and vegan. Then that will die too, lol.
The Limerick King @TheLimerickKing 6m6 minutes ago Here are the terrible facts The Times is now showing some cracks Employees will pay I hope & I pray That Krugman is getting the axe
Is it any wonder that those who believe FOXNews also believe what's written in the bible? A History Of Dishonest Fox Charts
There is no question that FOX is heavily biased to the right, much as the MSM are biased to the left. There is one BIG difference. Even though news may be delivered with bias at FOX, at least it is delivered. The MSM has mastered silence when it doesn't fit their agenda. Biased news is better than omitted news. And while on the subject of news...what is the deal with CNBC? Aren't they a market news source? Why the hell don't they ever carry the Draghi pressers. Not a big deal? It is if you trade the EURUSD (or the dollar). Last month the video on the web was unwatchable for me. Flipped to CNBC and they had some yappers rambling about pretty much nothing. I guess that's why they don't get ratings from me.
Nah, the small part (in numbers of outlets) that is right wing is the only part that makes any money. That's all.
This isn't about people who believe in Fox News (well, to anyone but you). It's about people who watch it. The sponsors paying the advertising bills at CNN and MSNBC, etc, don't care if people believe what those stations tell them. They just want people to watch them. That's what makes this so funny.