Mod: A couple more inspired hirings like Fibbin' Kayleigh and Fox News' ratings will be right down there with local city council meetings and TV test patterns.'Truly disgusting': Fox News suffers an internal revolt after hiring Kayleigh McEnany (Raw Storylink): Fox News has officially announced that former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany will join the network as a paid contributor, but some insiders within the network aren't pleased, according to a report from The Daily Beast.
"It's truly disgusting they fired hard-working journalists who did care about facts and news reporting only to turn around and hire a
mini-Goebbels whose incessant lies from the
White House helped incite an insurrection on our democracy that got five people killed, including a police officer," a
Fox News insider told
The Daily Beast.
The source appears to be referring to longtime politics editor
Chris Stirewalt, who was fired in January after upsetting conservative
Fox News viewers by calling
Arizona for
Joe Biden election night.
"Post-Trump Fox is quickly becoming a very scary place and quite dangerous for our democracy. It's not even conservative news anymore. They've plunged into an alternate reality where extremist propaganda is the only course on the menu," the insider added.
Another
Fox staffer told
The Daily Beast that the decision to hire
McEnany was "upsetting."
"So many good people are out of a job now and I'm sure she'll get a huge contract," the staffer said, adding that ultimately the hiring makes sense since so many Fox News viewers love McEnany.
"It bothers me in that it is basically a slap in the face to the hardworking journalists that value real news and facts. But it also doesn't surprise me because they have shown that they don't give a damn about facts and real news," another staffer said.
A third staffer lamented that there's "no objectivity in this business anymore. It's a self-serving profiteering enterprise," they said, adding that McEnany was hired because of "name recognition, notoriety, an obvious willingness to say anything her employer desires. The viewers are morons."
For The First Time In History MSNBC Is The #1 Network On All Of Cable (
Politicus USAlink): For the first time in the history of the cable ratings,
MSNBC was the top network overall, as the network tops
CNN and
Fox News.
MSNBC announced their win:
"
MSNBC averaged 1.4M total viewers during total day (M-Su 6am-6am) (vs.
CNN’s 1.2M and
FOX News’ 1.3M), propelling the network to the #1 spot in cable for the 1st time ever (ahead of #2
FOX News, #3
CNN and #4
HGTV). Among total viewers,
MSNBC increased viewership by +36% during total day while
FOX News shed viewers by double digits (-32%) compared to Feb. 2020. A25-54 viewership was up +29% for
MSNBC during total day vs. Feb. 20 while
FOX News lost -38% of viewers."
“
The Rachel Maddow Show” at 9pm finished February as the highest-rated regularly scheduled program across all of cable television for the 2nd straight month. “
Maddow” averaged 3.7M total viewers (vs.
FOX News’ 3M and
CNN’s 2.2M) — a double digit gain in total viewers (+32%) over Feb. 2020.
FOX News’ “
Hannity” lost -31% of total viewers compared to Feb. 2020. “
Maddow” also dominated the demo finishing #1 in A25-54 with 593K viewers (vs.
CNN’s 510K and
FOX News’ 440K). In A25-54, “
Maddow” increased viewership by +36% compared to Feb. 2020 while
FOX News shed -39% of viewers.
Sean Hannity’s viewership is down by 31% and the viewership for
Fox and Friends has plunged by 40%.
The right-wing has been reduced under Trump to a small fringe, and those outlets like Fox who continue to cater to the fringe will continue to watch their viewership dwindle.
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