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Fox News Ratings Tumble: 3rd Place for 1st Time in 17 Years (Original Post) rsacamano May 2017 OP
Guess their female anchors will have to wear even shorter skirts and stop crossing their legs to get appleannie1943 May 2017 #1
Turd Place. Just where they belong tomhagen May 2017 #2
Fox News is a joke Gothmog May 2017 #3
In my most idealistic frame of mind: maybe women viewers are finally seeing a *pattern* JudyM May 2017 #4
Quit calling that crap "news",nothing but entertainment and BS for Bengus81 May 2017 #5

appleannie1943

(1,303 posts)
1. Guess their female anchors will have to wear even shorter skirts and stop crossing their legs to get
Fri May 26, 2017, 10:48 AM
May 2017

their ratings up.

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
4. In my most idealistic frame of mind: maybe women viewers are finally seeing a *pattern*
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:09 PM
May 2017

of their demeaning treatment by the entire right wing, as finally and definitively exemplified at Faux Snooze itself. Maybe they are now finally getting it. It'd be interesting to see the relative demographics of the departed viewers.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
5. Quit calling that crap "news",nothing but entertainment and BS for
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:17 AM
May 2017

Republican knuckle draggers. FOX even admited it themselves years ago and as recently as 2015.

"Now, with the publication of the “Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media 2015,” Roger Ailes, the Fox News chairman and CEO, has confessed that his network, despite its name, is not actually in the news business. Belittling his cable news competitors CNN and MSNBC, he gave the Reporter a statement revealing his true professional aspirations:

In fact, Ailes, 74, no longer views those networks as rivals. ‘We’re competing with TNT and USA and ESPN,’ he says.”

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