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Younger Viewers Flock To Rachel Maddow Over Fox In Huge Numbers

By Jason Easley on Tue, Feb 27th, 2018 at 4:01 pm

Rachel Maddow’s dominance over Fox News with younger viewers has made her program the only show on cable news to grow with viewers age 25-54, and Maddow beat Fox among viewers age 18-49 for the fourth straight month.

MSNBC confirmed the ratings via a press release sent to PoliticusUSA:

“The Rachel Maddow Show” at 9 pm continued to lead CNN in A25-54 for the 13th straight month and total viewers for the 57th straight month. “Maddow” beat CNN in A25-54 (641,000 vs. CNN’s 365,000) and more than doubled CNN in total viewers (2,874,000 vs. CNN’s 999,000). Additionally, “Maddow” was #1 in A18-49 for the 4th straight month (as well as 11 out of the last 12 months), besting both FOX News and CNN (450,000 vs. FOX News’ 412,000 and CNN’s 287,000). “Maddow” was the only show to grow in A25-54 (+17% vs. FOX News’ -8% and CNN’s -28%) and post double-digit growth in total viewers (+26% vs. FOX News’ 0% and CNN’s -25%) over February 2017 in the time period.

CNN hasn’t been able to provide any regular programming competition for Rachel Maddow in a long time.

Hannity and Maddow have been going back and forth in the ratings for months, but Fox News is completely reliant on the white male senior citizen Trump voter for Sean Hannity’s audience. Hannity has only been able to compete with Maddow due to his program being shameless Trump propaganda.

Rachel Maddow ratings expose Fox’s long-term problem

Fox News has a bigger long-term problem of an aging audience that is not growing. Maddow’s rise with 18-49-year-olds leaves her in a position to become the top-rated show on cable news for an extended period. Fox News has gone from being a network that struggled to attract younger viewers to a network that struggles to attract younger viewers. Maddow and MSNBC are the only show and network that are growing with these viewers. Fox News is losing audience share with those ages 18-49.

Viewers are flocking to Maddow, as in the age of Trump, she offers an oasis of sanity amid a desert of chaos and crazy.

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/27/rachel-maddow-ratings-young-viewers.html

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Shooting survivor’s father admits email changes in CNN spat
Bob Eller, The Associated Press Published 10:51 p.m. ET Feb. 27, 2018 | Updated 8:17 a.m. ET Feb. 28, 2018

he father of a Florida shooting survivor acknowledged Tuesday he omitted words in an email he sent media outlets accusing CNN of using scripted remarks at a town hall on guns and school safety.

Dozens of conservative websites called the network’s Feb. 21 town hall forum scripted after Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior Colton Haab skipped the event and said the network had told him what question to ask. The websites call it proof the forum was slanted against gun rights. President Donald Trump tweeted about it on Friday, saying “Just like so much of CNN, Fake News!”

CNN countered with a release of email exchanges between producer Carrie Stevenson, Colton Haab and his father Glenn and accused Glenn Haab of deliberately altering email sent to Fox News and the Huffington Post.

“It is unfortunate that an effort to discredit CNN and the town hall with doctored emails has taken any attention away from the purpose of the event,” the network said in a statement.


Glenn Haab told The Associated Press he omitted some words from the email but said he didn’t do it on purpose.

“There was nothing malicious behind it,” he said.

More: 'America is watching you': Young people hold town hall in wake of Fla. deadly attack

In one exchange, 17-year-old Colton Haab proposes several questions to ask at the town hall, including one on whether to arm teachers. His father, a Republican gun owner, later emailed Stevenson a four-page document with a roughly 700-word speech and a series of questions he said Colton wanted to ask.

Stevenson told the father the additional language he proposed was “way too long” and Colton would need to stick to the question “that he submitted.” The words “that he submitted” were left off the email sent to Fox News and Huffington Post.

CNN said Stevenson had discussed which one of Colton’s several questions to ask at the forum and they mutually agreed on one using his own words and a statement he made during another television appearance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/27/cnn-townhall-florida-school-shooting-emails/380064002/