And Fox's internal research suggested that some other viewers were turning off the news altogether. We're losing people to Hallmark," one of the sources groused. Staffers mostly worked from home due to the pandemic -- even many of the hosts went live from converted garages and attics and spare bedrooms. So there wasn't real watercooler-type gossip at its Manhattan headquarters, but there was still plenty of secondhand speculation about what the bosses were thinking and doing.
His son Lachlan boasted on Election Day that "we love competition," but that flex was looking worse and worse by the day. They did it by giving the viewers what they wanted: False hope. On Fox, Trump was treated as a political genius, not a lame duck who failed to win reelection. Some of the network's key shows waded deeper into the voter fraud depths, eventually spurring massive defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies Dominion and Smartmatic.
The next step was to silence those dissenters. The shakeup. Fox's tagline that had sounded like a boast in , " America is Watching," registered more like a plea, "America is Watching," in January It sounded like the announcer needed to convince viewers that they weren't alone.
In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol attack, Fox announced what it trumpeted as a "new daytime lineup. Brian Kilmeade and Maria Bartiromo were the first two hosts to try out in the time slot. MacCallum was moved to the much lower-rated 3 p. She played along with the shift in public, but she was disappointed that she wasn't given more time at 7 to prove herself.
A source threw up their hands when I asked about the 7 p. That's their opinion. The man ultimately in charge of this menu was Rupert, the Fox Corporation patriarch. Because MacCallum moved to 3, Bill Hemmer had to move back to a morning co-anchor shift, only a year after he was finally given his own newscast. He was paired with Dana Perino, who also lost her own solo hour. Harris Faulkner's 1 p. While Democrats in the United States turn to and place their trust in a variety of media outlets for political news, no other source comes close to matching the appeal of Fox News for Republicans.
Below are five facts about Fox News and how Americans feel about it. You can use this interactive tool to explore the data from these surveys yourself.
The first survey was conducted Oct. The second was conducted March , , among 11, U. Recruiting our panelists by phone or mail ensures that nearly all U. This gives us confidence that any sample can represent the whole population see our Methods explainer on random sampling.
To further ensure that each survey reflects a balanced cross section of the nation, the data is weighted to match the U.
Here are the questions asked in the first survey, along with responses, and the methodology. For the second survey, here are the questions and responses and the methodology. It was 9 February , when I began my career as a critic of Fox News at Media Matters for America, a not-for-profit progressive research center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the US media. Most people, eventually including Donald Trump, assumed Hillary Clinton would be elected the 45th president of the United States that November.
Most people were wrong about a lot of things. Nearly four years later, the US political world revolves around the tweets of an erratic Fox News-watching grandpa who just so happens to run the most powerful country on Earth. Fox's Ed Henry: "We know it's cold outside. Now the left is actually using new terms for global warming, like 'extreme weather. Are they just pushing the same old agenda with new words? Ed Henry takes credit for first breaking the whistleblower bias story "a few weeks ago on Sean Hannity's program," and connects it to Trump going "on offense Jenkins closed his report by discussing a wanted murderer and a known gang member who were caught trying to cross the border.
Neither had anything to do with the family he helped arrest. The coolest thing about this research is the methodology. In this interpretation, Fox News might just be producing segments depicting food stamp recipients as lazy lobster-eating surfers because their audience already hates food stamps and welfare programs and wants something with which to agree.
Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. But Martin and Yurukoglu figured out an ingenious way around that problem: channel ordering. It turns out that more people watch Fox News when it has a lower channel number. In practice, that could translate into no effect on most people and a bigger effect like, an hour more viewing per week among a minority of cable subscribers — 2.
That makes channel positioning a bit like a randomized experiment: Some people are randomly provoked to watch more Fox News than others, enabling researchers to see what effect watching Fox had on them. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. Please consider making a contribution to Vox today to help us keep our work free for all.
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