Great news from Newsbusters!
Data released Tuesday show CNN shedding 48 percent of total viewers since last November and MSNBC dropping 45 percent.
The numbers were even worse in the all important demographic of people aged 25 to 54 as CNN’s ratings dropped 59 percent and MSNBC’s 52 percent.
In an off-election year, and with last November’s numbers skewed higher as a result of the presidential election, it should be expected for ratings to decline.
However, Fox News didn’t see close to these losses. In total day, FNC is only down 18 percent since last November and 30 percent in the demo.
While still too many people get their “news” from these sources, this clearly is a huge step in the right direction.
Of course, there are no doubt many reasons for this plummet, but while RATM can’t take full credit for this, we have been waging a very visible war against these sites for the past year and have unquestionably played a role in their loss of viewership. By swarming these and other sites with corrections to their false accounts, by alerting their readers and viewers that they are being kept in the dark on too many topics, and by simply combatting the general tenor of misinformation, we have opened countless eyes to the deceit and dishonesty that are prevalent on these networks.
Join us and let’s bring them down.