Beck's Ratings Crater

[beachFool]

HELLO AMERICA? Glenn Beck Posts Biggest Ratings Drop Of Any Cable News Show In January

"what's behind this drop? It's entirely possible viewers are simply tiring of the chalkboard and the high rhetoric, which has been notably higher of late. And needless to say Beck is not the phenom he was a year ago, merely by dint of the country becoming more familiar with him.

But it's probably also worth noting, just in the context of this January, that the month was dominated by hard news, in the form of the Giffords shooting.

Glenn Beck is many things but he is not hard news (nor does he generally attempt to be). And considering the nature of the news, perhaps it's not entirely surprising that viewers were clicking away for a while. Sometimes it's nice to be told the world is not ending.


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[AlphaCrab]

Beck's ratings down? Palin's ratings down, on TV and in politics? Anne Coulter's last book sales flounders? Maybe America is not dumbing down after all.

 

[sunspotbaby]

Beck's ratings down? Palin's ratings down, on TV and in politics? Anne Coulter's last book sales flounders? Maybe America is not dumbing down after all.

Every dog has its day. Everything goes in cycles. America is still being dumbed down no matter who has good ratings or who has falling ratings in the world of infotainment 'news'.

 

[scooterbug44]

My guess (dare I say hope) is that the combo of the Gifford shooting, the snow storms, and other January events gave people better things to do and more respect for REAL news and civil discourse.

Obama's non-political and reassuring behavior at the memorial also made some reconsider the lies being told about him/their opinions.

I am sure Beck's ratings drop was also helped by Palin being an idiot about Arizona - and those on the right like Huckabee denouncing anyone who tried to politicize the event.

You don't turn to the court jester in a crisis - you want someone reliable you can trust.

Would be interesting to see if ratings for "real" journalists who actually report the news went up to either dismiss or validate this idea.

 

[30ashopper]

I'd chalk it up to people ralaxing a bit now that they know the democrats don't have complete control over Washington.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

I'm really liking the "like" button....I'll stop now.....maybe

 

[poppy]

I'd chalk it up to people ralaxing a bit now that they know the democrats don't have complete control over Washington.

This is why I'm a liberal, we don't go bat$hit crazy and believe the rantings of an idiot that the other party is out to destroy our country when there is a shift in power.

 

[Lake View Too]

This is why I'm a liberal, we don't go bat$hit crazy and believe the rantings of an idiot that the other party is out to destroy our country when there is a shift in power.

You mean I really don't have to wear this tinfoil hat anymore?

 

[poppy]

You mean I really don't have to wear this tinfoil hat anymore?

If it matches your oufit of course you do.

 

[poppy]

I'm really liking the "like" button....I'll stop now.....maybe

I wonder why there is no "dislike" button.