CNN’s Don Lemon, who is no fan of Fox News, gave the network faint praise on Tuesday while largely dismissing any potential threat by rising conservative network Newsmax.
Lemon told Chris Cuomo during the handoff between their shows that by March things will moderate in cable news and that Newsmax will return to near-obscurity.
“Newsmax will be Newsmax, but it won’t be as powerful as Fox News,” Lemon said. “It will never be as powerful as Fox News.”
Cuomo got the conversation started when he mentioned that conservatives were now watching a channel that “you couldn’t even find on TV.” noting that they beat Fox News for a single hour on Monday in the key 25-54 demographic.
Lemon dismissed that win as unimportant in the larger scheme of things.
“Fox News — here’s the thing that we’ve been dealing with — the other cable networks have had competition, right?” Lemon said. “The competition for people who said that they’re non-biased, they’re in the middle, they’re independent. Fox News didn’t have any competition because Fox News is the only far-right conservative network. Now they have some competition. So the playing field in some way is leveling. But it will moderate.”
Lemon added that in the future Fox News will be a “shell of its former self,” but it will “still be very powerful.”
While Lemon, along with Cuomo, would love to see Fox News fall off its perch as the top cable news network, at least he understands that Newsmax’s recent surge is temporary as they are feeding off of election night anger from hardcore Trump supporters and not because it is actually capable of competing with Fox on a long term basis.
The ratings of all the major cable networks are likely to fall once Trump leaves office and that will put more pressure on MSNBC and CNN, which have benefited from attacks on Trump, than Fox News, which still has a very loyal base of viewers.
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“Newsmax will be Newsmax, but it won’t be as powerful as Fox News,” Lemon said. “It will never be as powerful as Fox News.”
I can only speak for myself. Fox News has become a Democrat Party propaganda outlet and I have no use for another fake news propaganda political outlet like CNN. I don’t watch or read the CNN political lies and I no longer watch or read the Fox News political Bull Smit.
Fox News reigns supreme in the ratings primarily because they have been the only Conservative game in town and the rest of the divided liberal channels of media if combined would dwarf them. Newsmax is beginning to expand the Conservative argument but has a way to go, and if Fox ever falls to the establishment conspiracy Newsmax may grow by leaps and bound. Amazon began as a tiny online bookstore and has grown into the dominant Multi-billion dollar online purchase player. Never underestimate the power of technology, whether used for good or evil. Truth by design is destined to win out in the end which puts MSNBC and CNN in a big disadvantage. If Fox or Newsmax could get as large a foothold and footprint in International airports as CNN who dominates, the whole world might get enlightened.
Though, with how even NEWSMAX is getting infiltrated by commie voices, all though-out its comments section, and their moderators, CAN THEY BE FAR BEHIND Faux news, COmmienewsnetwork etc, in becoming YET JUST ANOTHER libtard rag?
If Fox, keeps trending toward hiring liberals on their broadcasts, Newsmax may very well become a powerhouse. We already know that Rupert’s sons, who are very liberal, are running Fox News and Fox is trending in a liberal direction. Furthermore, anyone working at CNN, promotes censorship and lies, which is the CNN culture, so what honest person, wants to listen anyone’s opinion from CNN?
Besides low information voters, who listens to anything Don Lemon has to say. He’s a fool.
For a very long time, the ONLY news network telling the TRUTH was FOX. Then even FOX embraced the lies of the Fake News; which opened the door for Newsmax and other conservative networks to capture much of the conservative audience.
When Facebook and other big tech censored the TRUTH, they opened the door for Parler; proving yet again that the TRUTH will never be completely silenced by the elitist demons.
Thank God for the First Amendment and the rest of the Constitution.