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It only has low ratings because most people in America are clueless on most topics. I'm not saying some MSNBC viewers are uninformed, but to make it seem like Fox is more credible because more people watch it is just pure lunacy. PBS has low ratings. Does that mean PBS isn't a credible news network? CSPAN barely gets any ratings, yet it's only congressional hearings.
The fact is that Fox only has more ratingsb because most Americans are entertained by dogma. Hence, why CNN doesn't pull ratings like MSNBC and Fox.
Fox News is the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" of the news world. You watch it for fluff and entertainment, not for real education or the attainment of useful knowledge.
Fox has higher ratings for a simple reason - all the right wingers flock there. If you watch five minutes and roll your eyes, you might flip to MSNBC, CNN or any of the network news stations. So they are sharing the non-right winger audience while Fox gets pretty much the total right winger audience. Fox viewers also skew much older as most conservatives do and older viewers tend to get their news from television (and tend to just leave it on all day) whereas younger viewers get information from a variety of sources.
Dividing people and playing both sides off against each other leads to that which is what the media does. The partisan hacks from both sides are very annoying. Keep in mind MSNBC was once known as Fox news lite.
If the other networks were beating Fox, I'm sure you wouldn't be doing the same thing, right?
They all find their core of viewers and then start catering to them.
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