Glenn Beck's ratings down

[Chase]

Mr. Beck, a conservative Jeremiah and talk-radio phenomenon, burst into television prominence in 2009 by taking the forsaken 5 p.m. slot on Fox News and turning it into a juggernaut. A conjurer of conspiracies who spotted sedition everywhere he looked, Mr. Beck struck a big chord and ended up on the cover of Time magazine and The New York Times Magazine, and held rallies all over the country that were mobbed with acolytes. He achieved unheard-of ratings, swamped the competition and at times seemed to threaten the dominion of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity at Fox.

But a funny thing happened on the way from the revolution. Since last August, when he summoned more than 100,000 followers to the Washington mall for the “Restoring Honor” rally, Mr. Beck has lost over a third of his audience on Fox — a greater percentage drop than other hosts at Fox. True, he fell from the great heights of the health care debate in January 2010, but there has been worrisome erosion — more than one million viewers — especially in the younger demographic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/media/07carr.html?_r=1&src=busln

 

[FrankRep]

The New York Times

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

if we had a graph of Beck's viewership and Alex Jones's viewership, I wonder if we'd see two lines going in the opposite direction.

 

[emazur]

He had a good TV show in '09 - explored lots of libertarian ideas and had lots of libertarian guests. Later in the year he started spending the entire show every day of the week on stupid Van Jones - hell I don't like him either but I don't want to spend an hour every day on small potatoes like him. Right around that time he stopped having guests on, focused not so much on libertarian stuff, and it became The Glenn Beck Hour Monologue Show. Sorry, by himself he's just not that interesting. Now I'll only watch him if I hear he's doing one of his specials - the one last year about the black founding fathers for instance was good.

I never liked his radio show - waaaay too much time just shootin' the bull and saying nothing of substance or value, and his sidekicks are fools.

Best daily guy is Judge Nap, best weekly guy is Stossel, and best radio guy is Jason Lewis.

 

[Orgoonian]

 

[FrankRep]

Judge Napolitano has done an excellent job on shifting Glenn Beck away from his previous Pro-War, Pro-Torture, Pro-PATRIOT Act viewpoints.


Judge Napolitano: I converted Glenn Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6cXj0Iz7FI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pgn55H3XLw

Glenn Beck: I was Stupid for Supporting the PATRIOT Act
http://www.dailypaul.com/127675/gle...stupid-to-support-the-patriot-act-in-the-past

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Glenn Beck Recapitulates The John Birch Society
http://www.jbs.org/component/conten...enn-beck-recapitulates-the-john-birch-society

Glenn Beck Zeros In on the Council on Foreign Relations' Role in Media Bias
http://www.jbs.org/component/conten...enn-beck-zeroes-in-on-cfrs-role-in-press-bias

Glenn Beck Discovers Carroll Quigley! - False Paradigm of Political Parties
http://www.jbs.org/component/conten...ck-uses-quigley-quote-about-political-parties

Glenn Beck Discovers 'Philip Dru: Administrator' by Colonel Edward Mandell House
http://www.jbs.org/component/conten...glenn-beck-discovers-philip-dru-administrator

Glenn Beck: History Vindicated Joe McCarthy
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index...76-glenn-beck-history-vindicated-joe-mccarthy

Beck's Founders' Fridays Attempts to Undo Revisionists' Damage
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index...-fridays-attempts-to-undo-revisionists-damage

Glenn Beck exposes the Progressive Movement, Woodrow Wilson, and the Federal Reserve
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=257099

 

[Chester Copperpot]

if we had a graph of Beck's viewership and Alex Jones's viewership, I wonder if we'd see two lines going in the opposite direction.

or the same pattern with judge nap's show

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Bit more of that is worth quoting:

He still has numbers that just about any cable news host would envy and, with about two million viewers a night, outdraws all his competition combined. But the erosion is significant enough that Fox News officials are willing to say — anonymously, of course; they don’t want to be identified as criticizing the talent — that they are looking at the end of his contract in December and contemplating life without Mr. Beck.

On the other side, people who work for Mr. Beck point out that he could live without Fox News. Unlike some other cable hosts, Mr. Beck has a huge multiplatform presence: he has sold around four million books, is near the top of talk-radio ratings, has a growing Web site called The Blaze, along with a stage performance that still packs houses. Forbes estimated that his company, Mercury Radio Arts, had more than $30 million in revenue.
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Many on the news side of Fox have wondered whether his chronic outrageousness — he suggested that the president has “a deep-seated hatred for white people” — have made it difficult for Fox to hang onto its credibility as a news network.
[...]
The problem with “Glenn Beck” is that it has turned into a serial doomsday machine that’s a bummer to watch.
[...]
“What you see on television with Glenn is the real guy,” he added, “and that is a double-edged sword. If he is upset about something, you see it.”
[...]

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In a sense, it would be a shame to loose Beck as he's come around on a lot of Paul's positions and his audience listens to him and often adopt those positions too. That said, it would probably be an overall gain if he did leave FOX, for 2 reasons: A) Another network would probably pick him up, where he could influence a different audience and B) His most likely replacement would probably be the judge. Those two things happening several months before the primaries could change things in our favor.

-t

 

[AGRP]

He lost all momentum when he did Perry's dirty work by slimming Medina.

 

[juleswin]

This is what happens when you spend a whole hr trying to connect every news story to the muslim brotherhood. But just like AJ, he still has some very insightful and informative news segments so I watch him once in a while

 

[Chase]

He lost all momentum when he did Perry's dirty work by slimming Medina.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but he lost me during that incident...

 

[Anti Federalist]

if we had a graph of Beck's viewership and Alex Jones's viewership, I wonder if we'd see two lines going in the opposite direction.

Alexa ranking for Infowars 2276

Alexa ranking for The Blaze 2971

 

[lynnf]

if we had a graph of Beck's viewership and Alex Jones's viewership, I wonder if we'd see two lines going in the opposite direction.

yes, definitely. since Beck copies Alex, why not cut out the middleman and just go
straight to the source? LOL

lynn

 

[FrankRep]

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but he lost me during that incident...

Debra Media made a critical mistake. Medina danced around the question of whether she was a 9/11 Truther or not.
She should have said: "No. I'm not a 9/11 Truther." Things would have turned out differently.

 

[Teaser Rate]

He lost all momentum when he did Perry's dirty work by slimming Medina.

How is Glenn Beck responsible for Medina's incoherent answer to his question? Was asking her that question out of line ?

 

[Chase]

Sure. And I bet you could argue that since Beck is in part an entertainer, that she should have expected his reaction. But he was playing games with the liberty movement in my state, and I couldn't help but feel like his attack was entirely premeditated and done to help his buddy Rick Perry.

 

[FrankRep]

Sure. And I bet you could argue that since Beck is in part an entertainer, that she should have expected his reaction. But he was playing games with the liberty movement in my state, and I couldn't help but feel like his attack was entirely premeditated and done to help his buddy Rick Perry.

Media Medina should've known Glenn Beck is an anti-9/11 Truther.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Debra Media made a critical mistake. Medina danced around the question of whether she was a 9/11 Truther or not.
She should have said: "No. I'm not a 9/11 Truther." Things would have turned out differently.

And what if that is a lie?

What if she is?

Maybe an equally legitimate response would have been a short and simple answer that the government's story does not add up and that there is nothing new government covering up things like that.

 

[FrankRep]

And what if that is a lie?

What if she is?

Debra Medina is NOT a 9/11 Truther.

 

[Inkblots]

Debra Medina is NOT a 9/11 Truther.

Indeed. And if she were, Beck's question was even more justified - people have a right to know. I personally couldn't vote for someone who thought 9/11 was a false flag attack, for example. And I would want to know if any candidate I was considering supporting did hold such views.