{"id":266076,"date":"2017-05-24T13:36:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=266076"},"modified":"2020-11-14T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:11:06","slug":"fox-news-ratings-slide-as-americans-mistrust-of-mainstream-media-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/fox-news-ratings-slide-as-americans-mistrust-of-mainstream-media-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News\u2019 ratings slide as Americans\u2019 mistrust of mainstream media grows"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Great! And it\u2019s everywhere in the world. Finally, the propaganda machine of the 0.0001 % billionaires starts to crumble down. People are not dumb anymore and go through the Internet to get real information and not the propaganda of the puppet governments. On the way to world revolution and seizing of all assets of the 0.0001 %.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Nearly two-thirds of US voters believe that the mainstream media is producing fake news, according to a new poll. Many also believe that fake news is purposely published to push an agenda. Fox News appears to be hurt the most by viewers\u2019 mistrust.<\/p>\n

Across the political spectrum, 65 percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media, including 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats, according to the latest Harvard-Harris\u00a0poll\u00a0provided exclusively to The Hill. In total, 84 percent of voters said it is hard to know what news to believe online.<\/p>\n

Those numbers have increased since the end of March, when six in 10 Americans believed the mainstream media report fake news regularly or occasionally, with 54 percent thinking that online news websites report fake stories on purpose in order to push an agenda, according to a Monmouth University\u00a0poll. A whopping 80 percent of respondents believed that online outlets report fake news regularly or occasionally.<\/p>\n

The March poll also found that Republicans (79 percent) were most likely to say that major news outlets transmit fake news stories, compared to 66 percent of Independents and 43 percent of Democrats. Of those, Republicans were also more likely to say that major news sources reported fake news deliberately, rather than by mistake or due to poor fact checking.<\/p>\n

In April, Gallup\u00a0found\u00a0that 62 percent of Americans said that the news media favor one political party over another, with 64 percent saying media favor the Democrats over the GOP. Less than a quarter (22 percent) said that the media was biased towards the Republicans. Among GOP respondents, 77 percent said the media was biased towards one party, compared to 59 percent in 2003. Less than half (44 percent) of Democrats said that the media showed political favoritism, the same as in 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of the media is now just another part of the partisan divide in the country with Republicans not trusting the \u2018mainstream\u2019 media and Democrats seeing them as reflecting their beliefs,\u201d\u00a0said Harvard-Harris co-director Mark Penn.\u00a0\u201cEvery major institution from the presidency to the courts is now seen as operating in a partisan fashion in one direction or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between 2012 and 2015, trust in the media remained historically low, with 40 percent of Americans saying they had\u00a0\u201ca great deal\u201d\u00a0or\u00a0\u201ca fair deal\u201d\u00a0of trust and confidence in the mass media, according to an annual Gallup\u00a0survey. That dropped to 32 percent in 2016, however. The decrease in trust was dramatic among Republicans, with only 14 percent expressing trust, down from 32 percent the previous year.<\/p>\n

The Harvard-Harris poll comes as one mainstream outlet, Fox News, has had to retract a\u00a0major story it had been following. On Tuesday, the cable network and the Washington, DC-based affiliate it owns were forced to walk back their reporting on the July 2016 murder of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who Fox claimed had been in contact with WikiLeaks director and investigative journalist Gavin MacFadyen. Rich\u2019s parents condemned the speculation around their son\u2019s death in an\u00a0opinion piece\u00a0in the Washington Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed,\u201d\u00a0Fox News said in a\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n

The Rich retraction is the latest in a series of scandals rocking Fox News, including\u00a0sexual harassment\u00a0and\u00a0racial bias lawsuits\u00a0filed by\u00a0current and former employees, which led to the\u00a0firing of host Bill O\u2019Reilly\u00a0and the\u00a0resignation of co-president Bill Shine. Before O\u2019Reilly\u2019s ouster,\u00a0advertisers fled from his program, \u201cThe O\u2019Reilly Factor.\u201d More than 60 companies pulled ads from his show, leaving him with a mere seven sponsors by April 8.<\/p>\n

Now it appears that viewers are fleeing from O\u2019Reilly\u2019s old employer. Last week, Fox News placed third among cable news networks in primetime ratings among 25-54 year-old viewers, the most coveted advertising demographic, Adweek\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

MSNBC came in first with 611,000 viewers in the demographic and 2.44 million viewers overall. CNN came in second with 589,000 viewers and 1.65 million viewers overall, while Fox had 497,000 viewers in the coveted demo and 2.4 million viewers overall.<\/p>\n

It was the first time in 17 years that Fox came in third for a full week. The last time was the week of June 9, 2000, when the network was\u00a0still in its infancy.<\/p>\n

Despite the setback, though, Fox News still ranked as the top basic cable network in Total Day audience for the 20th consecutive week,\u00a0according to\u00a0Adweek. It also finished second in total primetime viewers across cable, behind TNT, which was airing the National Basketball Association\u2019s Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

MSNBC, which placed first during primetime among 25-54 year-olds last week, actually ranked behind Fox News if Saturday and Sunday \u2012 when the\u00a0liberal-leaning network\u00a0aired reruns \u2012 were taken into account. All three cable news channels \u2012 CNN, Fox News and MSNBC \u2012 were among basic cable\u2019s top 5 networks for the entire week.<\/p>\n

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