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The sad, beleaguered competitors of Fox News desperately pray that the billion-dollar lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems will do what they have never been able to do: Topple the TV-news ratings king. And they are happy to sacrifice the First Amendment in order to do that.
The British press — which has been losing to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire even longer than the American press has — is especially hungry.
“Is Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit a death blow for Murdoch and Fox News?” screams one eager headline in the Guardian.
Another headline last month in that same left-wing newspaper announced: “Dominion lawsuit is just the start as Fox faces losing friends — and viewers.”
Loses viewers? Apparently, the “mainstream media” is so blinded by hatred for Fox News that they are not interested in facts. Or refuses to report them.
Fox News routinely dominates half the cable news audience in America, leaving the other half to be divided among all its “competitors” like MSNBC and CNN — combined. Even more alarming for them, Fox News beats all competitors by double digits margins among independent viewers and continues to attract more and more self-identified Democrats.
According to detailed Nielsen ratings from last December, Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “The Five” were the second- and third-most watched shows in all of cable news among Democrat viewers in the most highly-coveted advertising demographic.
Perhaps most alarming for competitors, a YouGov poll published last month showed Fox News was the “most trusted source” of news in all of television for the previous 52-week period.
