11-30-2023, 11:06 AM
Fox News has been running a virtual monopoly on mainstream right wing news for the last 20 years, so it makes sense that they'd have the best ratings.
If you want a right wing slant on the news (or, alternatively, if you want to be lied to in a right wing way), Fox News is where you go. There are smaller outlets, like OAN, Breitbart, and Newsmax, but they're very niche and struggle to grab a significant market share with Fox News already filling that niche of "insane right wing conspiracies delivered as if they were news."
The left, on the other hand, does not really have any news outlet in America. At least not a daily news broadcast akin to Fox News or even OAN and Newsmax. The closest the left has is like Vox and Jacobin, but most leftwing people need to go to Youtube if they want any kind of daily left wing coverage of the news.
Then there's the center/center left groups like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, NPR, Politico, NYT, CBS, BBC, WP and AP, which effectively split the centrist/left leaning viewers' market share down to slivers.
In short, until a legitimate right wing news source grows big enough to take away some market share from Fox, they will continue to be the most popular mainstream news source because they have no competition for their viewership.
If you want a right wing slant on the news (or, alternatively, if you want to be lied to in a right wing way), Fox News is where you go. There are smaller outlets, like OAN, Breitbart, and Newsmax, but they're very niche and struggle to grab a significant market share with Fox News already filling that niche of "insane right wing conspiracies delivered as if they were news."
The left, on the other hand, does not really have any news outlet in America. At least not a daily news broadcast akin to Fox News or even OAN and Newsmax. The closest the left has is like Vox and Jacobin, but most leftwing people need to go to Youtube if they want any kind of daily left wing coverage of the news.
Then there's the center/center left groups like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, NPR, Politico, NYT, CBS, BBC, WP and AP, which effectively split the centrist/left leaning viewers' market share down to slivers.
In short, until a legitimate right wing news source grows big enough to take away some market share from Fox, they will continue to be the most popular mainstream news source because they have no competition for their viewership.
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