{"id":8549,"date":"2012-11-28T19:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T03:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2012-11-29T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:12:11","slug":"fox-news-november-ratings-the-smallest-year-over-year-growth-in-cable-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8549","title":{"rendered":"FOX Ratings Fail: November Increase For CNN, MSNBC Double That Of FOX News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confirming the ratings slowdown<\/a> of Fox News post-election, the November ratings show Fox with a comparatively small increase for November 2012 over their numbers for the same month in 2011. While all three networks rose due to this being an election year, Fox’s unimpressive 55% bump was barely half the leap of either CNN or MSNBC.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps this what you get when you deceive your audience by leading them to believe that their lame candidate was actually in contention despite all the objective evidence to the contrary. Prior to election day Fox hyped notably partisan polls<\/a> like Rasmussen, and famously idiotic pundits like Dick Morris<\/a>, who confidently declared that Romney would win in a landslide.<\/p>\n

Then, on election night, Fox continued the charade by hosting Karl Rove, who refused to accept the reality of Romney’s defeat. The spectacle that played out on live television had Rove arguing with Fox’s election desk. This caused Anchor Megyn Kelly to ask Rove “Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better, or is this real?”<\/em> Only on Fox would someone seriously ask their own paid contributor if what he was saying was real.<\/p>\n

Since the election Fox News has struggled to make sense of a world they had tried so hard to pretend did not exist – a world where a socialist, Muslim from Kenya could prevail over the richest presidential candidate ever put forward by a major political party. What has America come to?<\/p>\n