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If the ratings aren't high, is it even news?
News shouldn’t be allowed to have ratings if it’s actually news. Or rather, ratings should be provided by third party audits rather than crowdsourced opinions. The opinions of people en mass is overwhelmingly flooded with the desire to be entertained and have nonstop feeds. I hate saying what other people should do… but those people should be looking to other sources for such content, and news should be using more mature sources for feedback than their potential audience. News prioritizing such feedback is bound to grow by feeding off those people’s attention, provided by succumbing to their desires. It’s not a good model for news.
The old man who lives in the apartment next door sure seems to have changed the channel lately lol
Pretty obvious, I don’t like really bad news so image MAGA doesn’t either. Pity that Fox’s future is tied to such a conservative base.
Are you kidding? MAGA LOVES "bad" news...and non-news and fake news. Fox's problem is it doesn't go far enough, so they're moving to Newsmax, OAN, random chud youtubers, etc.
they most left for things like newsmax and oan, and watching right wing grifter podcasts. fox news is too traditional for them,.
MAGA has become the thing they hate the most: a minority.
They always have been. Just a very vocal minority.
with an international network of corrupt oligarchs manipulating the media
🌎🧑🚀🔫👩🚀
I love how great he gets/is at math when it’s something he’s passionate about.
If they dip any further they might get abducted by iSSe agents
Who the fuck even watches TV anymore?
Isn't Hasan Piker's election night strean blowing all these guys out of the water?
Old people. My mom has had directtv for 15 years.
Why watch anyone is what I don't get, the numbers on the AP news app is the fastest way to see the results. The news channels and that streamer, just get their information from them and yap.
I moved away from the US several years ago and unfortunately grew up in a fox household. On election night/the next day, I found myself seeking out CNN and MSN for the first time in my life. Normally I just do the results, but I wanted to bathe in people finally choosing differently. I wanted to hear the commentary and see their relief and I’m glad that I got to see Rachel Maddow talking about just throwing away trump’s comments.
You're right. I was watching the results alone on AP, but I kept bouncing here to lemmy and even signed back into my reddit account to read what others were noticing as the votes were being counted. I was wanting the social feedback too.
TIL DirecTV was still a thing.
She's paying like 250 a month to watch 1 channel. Newsmax.
Why not YoutubeTV?
Idk. I bought her a chromecast for Christmas years ago. She has the technology. She's just stubborn and stupid.
That is stupid, makes perfect sense, and makes my head hurt.
I watch local news ota for...local news. I'll be damned before I watch 24/hr news. That said I'm an elder millennial so ymmv
GenX here. I made that switch (and quit listening to radio as well) around 16 years ago when it dawned on me where it was all headed. Was local only until I just got sick of the constant unending political ads. I can't take it anymore. I quit television altogether except OTA football on Sunday pretty much. As for local news, all I do now is go to their websites to watch their weather forecasts.
People who aren't terminally online. It's a real issue. Piker can't even approach their reach.
what I'm taking away from this is we need to make a lot more people terminally online. /s
Average age is 69.
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Yeah you keep having that thought of all those fake blonde women fawning over trump
I sometimes watch conventional ota TV for football and basketball games and SNL.
Old folks are the only ones with cable or satellite these days.
We really needed statistics to say "Conservatives got pissed when they realized that they'd lost, and watched something else instead"?
It would be crazier if their ratings didn't drop.
arnt most "fox news" viewers now watching more right wing content, than fox itself.
It's great that Republicans and conservatives media have taken a hit but it's like leftist have to go out and do something
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