{"id":462109,"date":"2021-04-29T17:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462109"},"modified":"2021-04-29T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:50:54","slug":"ratings-for-bidens-address-to-congress-are-in-and-theyre-horrendous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ratings-for-bidens-address-to-congress-are-in-and-theyre-horrendous\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings For Biden\u2019s Address To Congress Are In, And They\u2019re Horrendous"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fratings-for-bidens-address-to-congress-are-in-and-theyre-horrendous%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=462109&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4156.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s ratings for his first address to a joint session of Congress are stunningly low.<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old drew a dismal 22.6 million viewers across seven major networks, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/04\/joe-biden-speech-ratings-congress-donald-trump-abc-fox-news-1234746540\/\">report<\/a> from Deadline, citing networks\u2019 \u201cnear final\u201d numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet emphasized that the low ratings come out to a 47% drop relative to former President Donald Trump\u2019s first joint session address:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>Joe Biden\u2019s first address to a joint session of Congress drew 22.6 million viewers across seven major networks.&nbsp;That\u2019s a drop of 47% from 43 million or so who tuned in to Donald Trump\u2019s first speech to a joint session, on February. 28, 2017, across those seven networks.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Deadline further outlined the breakdown across the major networks:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12.843373493976\">\n<p><em>According to fast national numbers from Nielsen,&nbsp;<a id=\"auto-tag_abc\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/abc\/\" data-tag=\"abc\">ABC<\/a>&nbsp;topped coverage with 4.03 million, followed by MSNBC with 3.94 million, NBC with 3.54 million, CBS with 3.37 million, CNN with 3.18 million, Fox News with 2.92 million and Fox with 1.63 million.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Poor ratings were somewhat expected, even by those on the Left.&nbsp;CNN media critic Brian Stelter, for example, did his best Tuesday to tamp down viewership expectations for Biden\u2019s address, modestly predicting that somewhere around 30 million views would be \u201crealistic\u201d for POTUS, citing \u201cTV ratings erosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden, it seems, was 7.4 million shy of the lowball estimate from the left-wing critic.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Stelter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weny.com\/story\/43767250\/boring-or-fascinating-journalists-assess-bidens-term-at-the-100-day-mark\">wrote<\/a> Tuesday, emphasis added:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15.727748691099\">\n<p><em>I\u2019m the type of news consumer who\u2019s home on the couch for every State of the Union. But it\u2019s helpful to remember that I\u2019m not the norm. (I\u2019m guessing you are not the norm, either!) Trump\u2019s State of the Union averaged 37 million viewers across 12 TV networks last year, which means most American adults heard the speech later, in bits and pieces, or didn\u2019t hear about it at all. Technically Biden\u2019s speech is an address to a joint session, since it\u2019s his first year as president, so here are this century\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nielsen.com\/us\/en\/press-releases\/2020\/over-37-million-viewers-watch-2020-state-of-the-union-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ratings comps<\/a>: About 48 million viewers for Trump in 2017, 52 million for Barack Obama in 2009, and 40 million for George W. Bush in 2001.<strong> Recent TV ratings erosion might make 30 million a more realistic barometer for Biden\u2019s address\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president\u2019s speech also fared poorly online.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from generally low video views, left-leaning news stations and outlets that streamed the speech, like USAToday, NBC News, CBS News, CNBC News, and CNN all had \u201cthumbs down\u201d reactions outnumbering \u201cthumbs up\u201d reactions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the only major news stations to have approving reactions outnumbering disapproving reactions was ABC News \u2014 which seems to track with TV ratings, too.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the online lowlights for Biden, reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thumbs-down-news-stations-videos-of-biden-address-fare-poorly-online\">The Daily Wire<\/a> on Thursday morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"50\">\n<p><em>USAToday\u2019s stream of the speech as of Thursday morning amassed 36,872 views, only 584 approving reactions and 2,600 disapproving reactions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>NBC News\u2019 video had 27,789 views by Thursday morning. The video also totaled more negative reactions than positive, 695 to 1,500, respectively.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CBS News fared better in views, totally 187,657 views by Thursday morning. But the station still amassed more negative reactions, 3,200, than positive reactions, 2,900.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The CNBC News video totaled 76,079 views by Thursday morning, with more than three times as many negative reactions than positive, 5,500 to 1,800.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CNN neared almost 200,000 views, but, again, was bested with negative reactions, 7,500 to 5,100.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The White House has two videos of the speech on their YouTube account. Both videos have the comment sections disabled, which is the norm for the Biden White House. The \u2026 reactions on both videos, too, have more negative reactions than positive.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thumbs-down-news-stations-videos-of-biden-address-fare-poorly-online\">Thumbs Down: News Stations\u2019 Videos Of Biden Address Fare Poorly&nbsp;Online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s ratings for his first address to a joint session of Congress are stunningly low.The 78-year-old drew a dismal 22.6 million viewers across seven major networks, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891849,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462109","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=462109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}