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Fox news is the biggest news organization in the US by viewership, which seems to be a positive shift then? This does not reflect in the numbers
by hackernewds 3y ago
Fox news is the biggest news organization in the US by viewership, which seems to be a positive shift then? This does not reflect in the numbers
- Kye 3y agoThe highest rated cable news program is still a drop in the bucket. It's just not that many people. It's up there with large niche YouTube channels: popular in their space like a Linus Tech Tips or Contrapoints, but most people have never heard of them. More people watch Stephen Colbert poke fun at Fox News than watch Fox News. Almost no one gets their news from Fox News, or cable news in general. People who do are less informed.
- scarface_74 3y agoYes. But mainstream advertisers stay away from many of the talk shows on Fox News.
- kthejoker2 3y agoNo, it's a negative shift. Twitter trying to be a Fox News is reducing their total addressable market and value, you understand that, right? They had a business that (in theory) appealed to every human on the planet. Now they don't. It's shedding its userbase as a result. Not to mention the Venn diagram between "people who are not already on Twitter and are evaluating Twitter as a platform to use" and "Fox News / right wing information consumers" has a very narrow overlap.
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- drcongo 3y ago"in the US" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. The entire rest of the world thinks Fox News is grotesque. Twitter becoming something that's a laughing stock to most of the planet is probably not "positive".
- anigbrowl 3y agoAnother way to look at it is that it's the lowest common denominator. It's 'news' in the same way that McDonalds is technically a restaurant.