Cable news adds
another dimension to the traditional ABC, NBC, and CBS networks. Plus it’s on
for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Obviously nobody can watch it
all, but it gives us very good choices from which to get the news, as well as
plenty of opinions about the news.
According to Deadline.com
the following are statistics for 2021 for the three top cable networks.
According to their website, “Deadline.com is always the
first to break up-to-the-minute entertainment, Hollywood and media news, with
an unfiltered, no-holds-barred analysis of events.”
“In primetime,
FOX NEWS topped with an average of 2.13 million viewers, compared to 1.31
million for MSNBC and 798,000 for CNN.” FOX had as many viewers as MSNBC and CNN combined.
In
post news analysis: ”Tucker Carlson Tonight was the top show in cable news,
averaging 2.81 million total viewers, followed by Hannity with 2.59 million, The Five with 2.53
million, The Rachel
Maddow Show with 2.27 million and The Ingraham Angle with
2.09 million.” And GUTFELD had 1.47 million viewers.
There are some
who think FOX is too conservative in both news and weather reporting,
especially regarding the man-made climate change hoax, about which this writer
has previously blogged. But their huge viewership indicates that a large number
of people are in agreement with their perspective.
It’s true that
“junk climatological theories” are dangerous. But all current information about
the climate is theoretical. We know today’s climate, but next year’s is an
educated guess. Will global temperatures rise to unlivable levels? Nobody
knows. This is worth repeating. Nobody knows. It’s all speculation.
The same is true
regarding the 2020 presidential election, where some say there was zero
evidence of widespread voter fraud. Actually there is zero evidence that there
was zero evidence of voter fraud. The
word “widespread” is added to minimize the actual fraud that occurred.
This is what is
so great about our freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Each of us can
express our views and opinions and then choose what to believe about what
others have written and said.
COPYRIGHT 2021 BY CARL E
GUSTAFSON
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