As the May ratings for the 4 major news networks come in, it’s never been more apparent that the mainstream media is in its death throes. According to a recent article from Politico, Fox News is faced with its lowest numbers in over a decade. While the networks continue to maintain enough viewers to stay afloat, they have absolutely failed to attain the younger demographic.
“Another key factor coming from May ratings is just how old Fox News viewers are. Take for example, Bill O’Reilly’s show…O’Reilly had his lowest month since 2001 in the key demo, with 308,000 viewers. Yes, O’Reilly is still the No. 1 program in cable news in both total and demo viewers, averaging 2,136,000 total viewers in May. But the majority of those viewers are over the age of 55. In fact, the median age for O’Reilly is now just over 72 years old. The average Fox News viewer overall is 68.8, while the average ages of MSNBC and CNN viewers were 62.5 and 62.8, respectively.”
Simply put, the largest news networks are hemorrhaging viewers, and most of what’s left are now senior citizens. If any institution is going to survive, it of course needs younger adherents. And this is not an abnormal year. Breitbart reported an almost identical story two years ago for the month of May. This is a clear and long term trend of decline. And it isn’t just Television news of course. Print media is likely on its way out as well, with only about a quarter of the population saying they have confidence in newspapers. 152 newspapers were shutdown in 2011 alone. Though I couldn’t find any more recent data, I suspect last year wasn’t much better.
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6 comments:
Failure to comply with media evolution.
the media is in trouble because nobody can trust what they say... The alphabet networks flat out lie and Fox is no longer fair and balanced. CNN the Communist News Network is exactly that, and what can you say about MSNBC - Al the Crook Sharpton is one of their mainliners.. let's all that Joe for the Blog ;-)
Everyone is tired of the liberal bias present in 95% or more of the news especially the national news. The libtards have taken them down with their sinking political ship and it will only get worse as the elections get closer!
Government infomercials.
Watch the movie 1984. That's our news media.
Oceana is our friend. Atlantia is our enemy.
Atlantia is our friend. Oceana is our enemy.
I agree with everybody here @ 7:58pm. There are too many things happening that make our next moves totally dependent on the blogs.
The trouble with this is, as much as we love to threaten with any revolution, the Revolution will not be televised, online, or on twitter!
There's going to have to be a paper and pencil, cave man, coded type information pipeline to accomplish a revolution, and frankly, we don't have it yet.
Work is yet to be done, as the chore is still on the agenda.
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