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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