{"id":1227275,"date":"2022-01-20T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227275"},"modified":"2022-01-20T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:54:36","slug":"joe-biden-fox-news-is-ok-but-its-competitors-are-heading-south-in-4-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-fox-news-is-ok-but-its-competitors-are-heading-south-in-4-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden: Fox News Is OK, But Its Competitors \u2018Are Heading South\u2019 In 4-5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-fox-news-is-ok-but-its-competitors-are-heading-south-in-4-5-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227275&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-slammed-over-embarrassing-press-conference-let-the-25th-amendment-discussions-begin\">widely panned press conference<\/a> on Wednesday, his first in 10 months, President Joe Biden forecast that Fox News Channel would likely continue to broadcast for some time while its cable news competitors such as CNN and MSNBC will be \u201cnot very much in the mix in the next four to five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prediction came after the president veered off topic while answering a question about school closures. Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News fed Biden a softball question about whether \u201cRepublicans will weaponize this narrative\u201d that Democrats allowed public schools to remain closed over COVID-19 concerns. \u201cCould school reopenings or closures become a potent midterm issue for Republicans to win back the suburbs?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Biden acknowledged that \u201cit could be\u201d an issue in this November\u2019s elections but called the charge \u201coutlandish,\u201d although multiple studies <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3684867\">show<\/a> that the strength of teachers unions and the percentage of voters who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/brown-center-chalkboard\/2020\/07\/29\/school-reopening-plans-linked-to-politics-rather-than-public-health\/\">supported the Democratic Party<\/a> affected school closure decisions more than the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.3102\/0013189X211048840\">severity of COVID-19 outbreak<\/a> in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Biden then careened into a discussion of his own unfavorable poll numbers before predicting the future of cable news networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I find fascinating that\u2019s happening \u2014 and you all are dealing with it every day \u2014 and it will impact on how things move \u2014 is that a lot of the speculation in the polling data shows that the \u2014 that the cables are heading south; they\u2019re losing viewership. You know?\u201d Biden asked.<\/p>\n<p>He then clarified that the Fox News Channel seemed far more durable than competitors like MSNBC or CNN. \u201cWell, Fox is okay for a while, but it\u2019s not gated,\u201d he said, apparently referring to the fact that it is available on basic cable \u2014 as are its competitors. \u201cA lot of the rest are predicted to be not very much in the mix in the next four to five years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden quickly clarified that \u201cI don\u2019t know whether that\u201d speculation is \u201ctrue or not,\u201d reiterating, \u201cI\u2019m no expert in any of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ratings would seem to bear the president out. In 2021, Fox News celebrated its sixth year as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/1-fox-news-celebrates-sixth-year-as-the-top-channel-on-basic-cable\">number one channel in all basic cable<\/a>, not merely cable news. FNC\u2019s 2021&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/124-cable-channels-ranked-average-193000903.html\">primetime<\/a>&nbsp;ratings nearly equaled the audience of rivals CNN and MSNBC&nbsp;<em>combined<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s viewership plunged precipitously over the same period. CNN attracted an average audience of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10394997\/CNN-loses-nearly-90-advertiser-coveted-demographics-overall-total-audience.html\">548,000 viewers<\/a> in the first week of January, down from 2.7 million during the same time last year. During that time, the network \u201clost 89 percent of its primetime viewers among its key demographic and 91 percent of viewers ages 18 to 49,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/12\/cnn-sees-ratings-dive-by-90-from-2021-coverage\/\">according<\/a> to the New York Post. Biden seemed uncertain whether the American people chose one of the numerous cable news outlets in order to discover the truth or to weed out coverage that challenges their pre-existing political views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American public are trying to sift their way through what\u2019s real and what\u2019s fake,\u201d he said. But he then contradicted himself, saying that American viewers choose cable news networks \u201cto get reinforced in their views, whether it\u2019s MSNBC or whether it\u2019s Fox, or whatever.\u201d He said that viewers \u201cput themselves in certain alleys,\u201d because little of the Fox audience watches MSNBC and vice-versa. He said Americans had \u201cself-identified perspectives based on what channel you turn on \u2014 what network you look at \u2014 not network, but what cable you look at,\u201d he said, apparently drawing a distinction between the Big Three networks of ABC, NBC, and CBS and cable news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never quite been like that\u201d in the past, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show Americans consider themselves fact-starved and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trust-in-media-hits-record-low-new-study-blames-readers-for-lack-of-confidence\">want the news media to convey information<\/a> instead of providing \u201ccontext.\u201d A total of 67% of Americans&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpressinstitute.org\/publications\/reports\/survey-research\/how-we-studied-moral-values\/\">endorsed<\/a>&nbsp;the \u201cidea that the more facts people have, the closer they will get to the truth\u201d in a poll taken by the Media Insight Project&nbsp;last year. They said that reporters\u2019 decision to \u201camplify the voices of people who aren\u2019t ordinarily heard\u201d is \u201coverdone\u201d&nbsp;and rejected the notion that \u201ca good way to make society better is to spotlight its problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway,\u201d the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/01\/19\/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference-6\/\">said<\/a>, abruptly stopping himself before moving on to the next question.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full press conference below:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At his widely panned press conference on Wednesday, his first in 10 months, President Joe Biden forecast that Fox News Channel would likely continue to broadcast for some time while its cable news competitors such as CNN and MSNBC will be \u201cnot very much in the mix in the next four to five years.\u201d The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}