Smug Morning Joe Gloats Over Beating Fox in Ratings… After 20 Years of Losing
20th November 2020
In recent weeks, Fox News has been losing audience, as some viewers have become disenchanted with the network’s increasingly Trump-skeptical tone. Morning Joe has been a beneficiary of this trend, beating rival Fox & Friends in the ratings for the first time in almost 20 years.
Joe Scarborough et al. thus have an interest in encouraging Fox News to continue down the path that has benefitted Morning Joe. And thus it was that on today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist lavishly praised FNC personalities who have criticized the efforts of the Trump team to contest the election results. Scarborough and Geist singled out FNC’s Kristin Fisher, playing a long excerpt of her takedown of yesterday’s press conference featuring Rudy Giuliani.
It’s all because Fox has decided to join the Corporate Media, and is thus losing viewers.