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Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings
According to Comedy Central, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart averaged 2.3 million viewers per episode in 2011. Unlike Fox News, “The Daily Show” was up in total viewers (+7%) and all key demos: adults 18-49 (+6%); men 18-34 (+2%); men 18-24 (+4%).” The Daily Show was also the top cable late night talk show in terms of total viewers, and was generally dominant. While Fox News was losing 14% in the demo in 2011, Jon Stewart was gaining 6%.
Jon Stewart has become Fox News’ #1 media nemesis. To put Stewart’s ratings into a head to head context, The O’Reilly Factor tends to hover around the 3 million viewers range. Hannity is at around 2+ million, and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren varies between 1.1 million and 1.5 million as an average. This means that The Daily Show is more popular than both Hannity and On The Record, and trails O’Reilly by about 700,000 viewers.
The reason why Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart is because his program is more popular than anything not named Bill O’Reilly on the network. Not only is Stewart popular, but he is popular with the coveted young demographics that Fox News struggles with. The average Fox News viewer is 65 years old. For years, the Fox News model of success has been powered by viewers literally aging in to watching Fox.
However, Jon Stewart has thrown a wrench in the Fox News cycle of life by educating his millions of younger viewers about Fox News. Stewart spends segments debunking the propaganda, exposing facts, and uncovering the edited video that is the bread and butter of America’s top cable news network.
Every night Stewart is teaching Americans how to not watch Fox News. The Daily Show host has become the media critic with the biggest platform and loudest voice in our country, and most often that voice is targeting Fox News for their brand of “journalism.”
This is *awesome* :)
(Source: azspot)
The Fox News solution: more discrimination, less pay, less benefits.
This is one of the million reasons why I will *never* watch Fox News. It should be a crime for them to call themselves a news source.
(via duessa)
News Hounds: We watch Fox News so you don't have to
Yes! So much idiotic crap comes out of Faux News. It’s nice to know someone out there is willing to sacrifice their sanity to watch so the rest of us don’t have to!
Jon Stewart on Jon Stewart on Fox News Sunday
From last night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart discusses his appearance on Fox News Sunday.
If you missed it, you can watch the complete, unedited FNS interview here.
Seriously, if you haven’t watched that interview yet, do it.
ROFL! “Right-wing resin” - hilarious!
Michelle Malkin: Atheists Should Be Treated Like ”Trolls” (via RichardDawkins.net)
Fox News. Sigh.
Good grief, this crap actually gets aired?! (It’s the first time I’ve actually watched Fox; am not American, though I’ve heard a lot about this “news” channel.)
At least now I can say I’ve watched it.
Load of crock.
The funny thing is I just did an editorial review on Michelle Malkin. Know who’s worse? Gretchen Carlson. I cannot believe they let that woman open her mouth on a news show like that. Fox News has lost all credibility, as far as I’m concerned.
