{"id":683770,"date":"2021-08-25T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683770"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:06:19","slug":"only-22-of-cable-news-is-news-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/only-22-of-cable-news-is-news-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 22% of Cable \u2018News\u2019 is News: Study"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fonly-22-of-cable-news-is-news-study%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=683770&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-4108.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you feel like you can\u2019t find any news on cable news networks, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has found that the vast majority of cable news broadcasts feature opinion, analysis, and spin instead of hard news.<\/p>\n<p>Hard news \u2014 defined as a statement of facts, or on-the-spot reporting \u2014 amounts to just 22.3% of all footage aired on cable news networks. That amounts to nine minutes, 15 seconds of hard news for every hour of broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Each hour of broadcasting on cable news networks contains nearly twice as much commercial time than hard news.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews with newsmakers account for another 16% of broadcast news time.<\/p>\n<p>Commentary from a host, or panel discussions and \u201canalysis\u201d from a panel of talking heads, make up the vast majority of cable news time (60%).<\/p>\n<p>The mix of objective vs. subjective reporting gets worse as the night went on. Just 9.3% of the programs that air between 7 p.m. and midnight consists of fact-based news reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The Media Research Center monitored MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News Channel, then assessed how much of the content consisted of facts and how much was a matter of opinion.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, 72% of the Big Three networks\u2019 evening news broadcasts is hard news. Even the fluffiest hour of their morning news programs like \u201cToday,\u201d \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d and \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d have a slightly higher percentage of hard news content than cable news programming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this report, Media Research Center analysts reviewed a sample of 108 hours of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel programming from February 1 through June 30,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2021\/08\/24\/study-actual-news-hard-find-todays-cable-news\">reported<\/a> MRC. \u201cThe sample consisted of two randomly selected hours of weekday programming from each network for each hour beginning at 6am ET and ending at midnight ET.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commercials and teases of upcoming stories did not count toward the total two-hour sample.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason for the dearth of facts is that cable news has fixated on political issues, which have absorbed vast swaths of program time formerly dedicated to other topics.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 60% of cable news discussed U.S. political news, relegating once hot-button topics to a peripheral role on the networks. A mere 15% of all news coverage involved crime. Health news amounted to 7% of the broadcast day, even during the era of COVID-19 \u2014 although stories about the way political leaders handled the pandemic were considered political for the purposes of this study. Segments focused on the spread or extent of COVID-19 infections counted as health stories.<\/p>\n<p>All other news topics made up a tiny proportion of airtime. Major accidents, the economy, business or financial stories, sports, and weather <em>combined <\/em>make up only 6% of all network footage.<\/p>\n<p>Cable news networks featured only two segments about religion \u2014 both on Fox News \u2014 constituting a grand total of 0.14% of cable news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was taken before the fall of Kabul, which featured on-the-ground reporting by such figures as CNN\u2019s Clarissa Ward.<\/p>\n<p>The study reinforces surveys and polls in which the American people say they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trust-in-media-hits-record-low-new-study-blames-readers-for-lack-of-confidence\">long for facts<\/a>. Two out of every three Americans&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpressinstitute.org\/publications\/reports\/survey-research\/how-we-studied-moral-values\/\">endorsed<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cfactualism,\u201d&nbsp;the \u201cidea that the more facts people have, the closer they will get to the truth,\u201d according to a recent poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.&nbsp;Only 29% agreed that \u201ca good way to make society better is to spotlight its problems,\u201d something the survey considered a key journalistic value.<\/p>\n<p>The networks\u2019 pronounced shift from news to commentary over the last eight years reflects their consumers\u2019 desire to live in an echo chamber, according to the MRC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Republicans and Democrats, both conservatives and liberals, are looking for information that confirms a worldview, and the opposing worldview is too unconscionable to consider,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/tim-graham\/2021\/08\/25\/column-news-channels-could-use-more-news\">wrote<\/a> the Media Research Center\u2019s Tim Graham. \u201cIt used to be routine to see conservative vs. liberal pundit debates on the cable channels. It\u2019s much more common today for everyone on a panel to have a similar if not identical view on issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That trend has accelerated, as CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-fires-rick-santorum-after-he-claimed-founding-fathers-birthed-a-nation-from-nothing\">fired<\/a> former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, R-PA, as a conservative commentator in May. Many or most of the network\u2019s \u201cRepublican\u201d commentators have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rick-santorums-firing-proves-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you\">endorsed<\/a> or voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News still has features debates between people of both sides of an issue on \u201cThe Story with Martha McCallum,\u201d and Dan Bongino has a weekly segment where he goes head-to-head with a spokesperson from the Democratic Party on Saturday\u2019s \u201cUnfiltered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough hosted an even-handed and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-a-radical-philosophy-rooted-in-marxism-chris-rufo-returns-to-msnbc-for-debate-on-crt\">respectful debate<\/a> on Critical Race Theory between CRT opponent Chris Rufo, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/expert\/christopher-f-rufo\">senior fellow<\/a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/\">Manhattan Institute<\/a>, and Eddie Glaude Jr., a professor of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aas.princeton.edu\/people\/eddie-s-glaude-jr\">African American Studies<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/religion.princeton.edu\/people\/faculty\/associated-faculty\/eddie-glaude\/\">Religion<\/a>&nbsp;at Princeton University. That contrasts sharply with fellow MSNBC host Joy Reid, who interrupted Rufo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-petulant-and-childish-outburst-msnbcs-joy-reid-goes-on-tirade-against-anti-crt-guest\">27 times in 13 minutes<\/a> during the June 23 episode of \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Reid\u2019s approach predominates on cable news, on the rare occasions when cable news hosts deign to invite someone with an opposing viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\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>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel like you can\u2019t find any news on cable news networks, you\u2019re right.A new study has found that the vast majority of cable news broadcasts feature opinion, analysis, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683770","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\/683770","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=683770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683770\/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=683770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}