Wednesday, December 23, 2015

FOX Finally Got Something "Right" About T-rump: Middle Finger Salute Primary Poll

First Impression of FOX Graph: Looks Like Trump's One-finger Salute to America


The story and graph from here with this story headline:

The 2015 Fox Primary: It's Trump and Then Everyone Else 

Two highlights from the piece I found interesting: 
  • First is the time GOP candidates appeared on FOX.
  • Second is the leading FOX host (interviewer) is Sean Hannity (surprise, surprise, surprise).

Details:
  
From May 1 to December 15, leading Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump lapped the rest of the field in interview airtime on FOX News. 

Trump's 22 hours and 46 minutes of airtime was more than twice as much as any other candidate during the period that was studied. 

Trump racked up more airtime on the network than Cruz, Bush, and Rubio combined.

Interviews with the Republican field have been a near-constant fixture of Fox News' programming during the second half of 2015.

The Fox Primary is showing no signs of slowing down as we approach 2016 and the first primaries. 

So far this cycle, the network has already surpassed coverage of the 2012 campaign season: During the period studied, Fox News aired more than 117 hours of interviews with Republican candidates. 

Over a similar time frame (June 1 to January 22, 2012), Fox devoted 77 hours and 24 minutes to interviews of the then-candidates. (The disparity is even more striking considering the 2012 report included appearances on Fox News' sister network, Fox Business.)  

Lagging well behind Trump were Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, and Carly Fiorina, who round out the top five. Each spent less than 10 hours on Fox over the same time period.

Why anyone is not surprised that FOX is the leading mouthpiece for the GOP on any issue. I wonder why FOX Chief, Uncle Ruppy Murdoch and Roger Ailes, former media consultant for Presidents Nixon, Reagan, H.W. Bush, and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani don’t become co-chairs for the RNC?

Now that makes perfect dollars and sense. Thanks for stopping by.

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