Interesting Take on FNC Viewership
“Conservatives seem so angry at their loss [of the presidency], so ready to blame Obama for all their problems that almost 400,000 more of them are watching Fox News this year than they did last year. I think they turn to Fox for comfort and confirmation. They need to hear the ranters and ravers tell them that it’s not their fault, it’s all because of those ‘Socialist Democrats.’ I have believed for years that it’s “comfort and confirmation” that drove conservatives to talk radio. Now it’s television, too. . . . Maybe it’s simply the need for an enemy, the desire to detest is greater than the power to tolerate; maybe it’s the need to blame somebody else for the bad things that are happening in our lives that drives viewers to Fox”
– Reese Schonfeld, the first president and CEO of CNN, commenting to the Huffington Post and why he believes Fox News has been the leading cable news network for the last nine years.
*Hat Tip: Wall Street Journal, Political Diary, John Fund
