l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 In a piece published earlier today, Big Journalism made note of the fact
that, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, ratings confirm that
CNN has now lost its "Big News" ratings dominance to Fox News.
For over a decade, whenever major news broke, Americans were simply expected
to abandon their regular news source to tune in to CNN. What we've seen
lately, though, and without a doubt during the Boston Marathon terror attack
, is that this is no longer the case. Fox News is now, if you will pardon
the expression, "The Most Trusted Name In News."
While CNN is beating MSNBC this week, Fox is now crushing both, and doing so
during the seismic news event involving the first successful terrorist
attack directed at civilians on American soil since 2001. This kind of story
used to be CNN's bread and butter.
No more.
This ratings dynamic isn't likely to change anytime soon, either. Since the
debacle that occurred on CNN Monday afternoon with the dramatic misreporting
that arrests in the Boston bombings had been made, CNN's "Big News" brand
has only been further tarnished. Between blowing the ObamaCare ruling and
being caught red-handed pushing for stricter gun control, CNN is now
something of a laughingstock on the right and the left.
Throughout the week, in fact, thanks to a countless number of small blunders
, CNN has been facing the kind of ridicule media watchers used to reserve
for Fox.
As far as MSNBC being able to handle the kind of hard news that comes with a
terror attack, other than Chuck Todd, almost all of the left-wing network's
usual anchors -- Toure, Alex Wagner, Martin Bashir, Chris Matthews, Al
Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, etc. -- have seemed way over their heads this week.
The only time the network has avoided an unsettling Bugsy Malone vibe is
when NBC reporters like Pete Williams stop by.
Right now MSNBC's ratings are the disaster they deserve to be.
Fox News, on the other hand, is doing spectacular work. Though they also
misreported the arrests-that-never-were on Monday, anchor Megyn Kelly was
much more careful in her reporting than either CNN or the AP. Otherwise, FNC
's coverage has been uniformly sober, smart, informative, and remarkably
free from the kind of drama, errors, and speculation that has so plagued its
competition.
Because of the left-wing bias that stunts the worldview of most media-
watchers, FNC is unlikely to get the praise it deserves for its fine work
this week. But make no mistake, FNC's straight-news coverage of this
straight-news event has been exemplary.
And according to the ratings, the only "media-watchers" who matter -- the
customers -- seem to agree.
Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC
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