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Fox News Set for Best Year Ever

Ratings soar with Dems in office

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 17, 2009 12:29 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Conservatives may not have their preferred president, but they do have a preferred network: Fox News is on a roll, set for its best ratings year ever, the AP reports. Viewership is up 11% over last year—though the boom hasn’t come without controversy, with some critics suggesting that Fox, lead by Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity, has helped charge, instead of just followed, the president's opponents. Ratings at CNN and MSNBC, meanwhile, are down.

“Fox is much more firmly established than it has ever been," says a former host of Fox's News Watch. "It has been in existence for 13 years. It knows its base. And it knows its base is bigger than CNN or MSNBC." "Our ratings are already soaring because we don't denigrate the protesters, the way a lot of other TV news organizations do," adds Bill O'Reilly. "They're dying. We're on fire."

In this May 3, 2007 file photo, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC poses at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif.
In this May 3, 2007 file photo, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC poses at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif.   (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
In this Jan. 18, 2007 file photo, Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor in New York.
In this Jan. 18, 2007 file photo, Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor" in New York.   (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
In this May 5, 2009 file photo, newscaster Glenn Beck attends the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in New York.
In this May 5, 2009 file photo, newscaster Glenn Beck attends the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
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Legacy
Aug 26, 2009 11:42 AM CDT
I Have to agree with aces08. I believe and see more people getting there news from the internet then the news channels. Now in days more people are losing their trust in news channels and are learning to research the information on the internet now that it is more popular in homes than ever.
emptycalm
Aug 18, 2009 5:59 AM CDT
Oh come on. You have to be just joking. Fox not bias? How can you have thoughts and believe that? All corporate news is a joke but fox is so obvious about which side they're on. News is supposed to be objective, not the ministry of propaganda.
cognitivefilter
Aug 18, 2009 5:39 AM CDT
good lord. glenn beck is allowed to say he wants to stab pelosi in the face, but that blogger gets slammed with some jail time for saying some judges should die? not that i disagree, but REALLY. glenn beck kills me. really.

 
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