WILL “FOX NEWS” SLOWLY DIE & FADE-OFF INTO THE SUNSET?

…Fox News’ Megyn Kelly gets caught spreading voter fraud lies.

 

The numbers on Fox News do not look promising with regard to their future potential growth.

While doing my research for my previous recent article on the Fox network and Republican’s brains, I came across some interesting information that is showing why the conservative Fox News “experiment” may become the proverbial “flash-in-the-pan” operation.

The reason for this is that there are organizations out in TV-land that continually check to see how the different news and media groups are doing and growing.  Of those observing organizations, there now seems to be one constant issue with one particular news operation that has become a reality to all of these organizations. 

So far, based on the numbers criteria that is used for following network programing, Fox News in particular, is having difficulty in appealing to new viewers.  That includes new: young, old and minority viewers.

The current Fox viewer profile is pretty much filled with elderly, white viewers, and many of those are located in the Southern states.  But those viewers are continuing to age with only a very few new and younger voters coming on board.  The network followers are now saying that if this trend continues, Fox viewers will eventually be either too feeble or will be deceased, which will obviously limit Fox’s viewership and its overall political impact.  Unfortunately, based on today’s numbers, it will still take a decade or more to extinguish the current, Fox News’ conservative  flame.

So, just why is it that Fox is having this issue of being unable to attract new and younger viewers?

Well, I would first ask if anyone else can name a growing and successful news outlet that blatantly lies on the air, and then continues to repeat those lies even after they have been called out on those blatant lies? At some point, as with lying politicians, this kind of news outlet would eventually be figured out by the American public.  So, without making major ethical programing changes, this news outlet would gradually lose credibility and eventually cease to exist.

This news outlet description appears to be today’s, Fox News. 

Just last week, the Fox "talking-head" news reader, Ms. Megyn Kelly, literally offered up a totally false voter fraud news item about the governor of Colorado signing a law that, “literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to special ‘collectors’.”

This news item was totally made up by Fox.  The only people who can print out ballots today are active military personnel serving overseas.  Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC daily show pointed this out in a blistering response to Ms. Kelly’s false statements.  The ballot-printing ability is a long-time privilege for overseas military personnel.  Other, legal, “vote-by-mail” programs are also available in many US states.

Megyn Kelly just outright lied and has not retracted her statements, (Fox never retracts anything they report).  Colorado citizens cannot print their ballots and give them to "collectors", any more than can citizens in other American states..  One simple phone call to any Colorado elections supervisor or the Secretary of State’s office could have told her that information.  That is, if there was any fact checking going on at Fox….which seldom if ever occurs.

But Ms. Kelly just didn’t stop there. She used her fingers as “air quotes” to say the word "collectors" as if these were obviously considered as illegitimate individuals.   Ms. Kelly had started this so called news item saying that this was all a voting scam by the Democrats for doing away with "traditional polling places".  She then added, with a snide smirk, "what could go wrong?"

 

…The Democrats are not trying to do away with “traditional polling places”.  In fact, they are working hard for increasing voter registrations.

This is a perfect example as to why Fox News and their right-wing supporters are the only ones left who will try saying that the Fox News network is anything other than a sleazy, ideological sham posing as a legitimate news agency.

Copyright G.Ater  2014