Left-wing talking heads in the so-called “mainstream” media are starting to realize that they’ve never had less influence over the nation.
Now they’re just lashing out.
And Joy Behar flipped her lid when Fox News’ Harris Faulkner handed her this truth bomb.
A changing of the guard?
According to ratings data compiled by Nielsen, Fox News has been the most-watched cable news network in total daytime and primetime viewership for 23 consecutive years now.
But despite Fox News’ decades-long domination of cable, it’s long lagged behind the viewership of the so-called “Big Three,” ABC, CBS, and NBC, due to the fact that cable doesn’t reach as many homes as such free-to-air, broadcast networks.
That could all be changing, though, as more and more Americans tune out of so-called “mainstream” networks, with most opting to cut the cord altogether.
And one of the biggest indicators that major changes could be coming came with the latest, often overlooked daytime TV ratings.
For years now, ABC’s The View has been the most-watched daytime talk show and “news program” in the country, pulling in around 2.5 million viewers each week.
But recently, The View fell to second place in the 11:00 AM timeslot, as Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus pulled in more viewers than the long-running ABC show for the first time ever.
“The win is even more notable given the larger reach of broadcast television, available to anyone without cable,” Forbes reported.
To make matters worse for The View, Fox News’ Harris Faulkner proceeded to take a bit of a victory lap in a subsequent interview with The Daily Mail.
“I’ve seen it when there was a powerhouse journalist,” Faulkner said when asked about beating out The View. “When Barbara Walters was leading it.”
“Now I don’t really know what the show is, apart from talk, talk, talk – a lot of combativeness,” she added. “We have lots of guests who feel spicy and passionate about what they say. That’s not unique to The View or to any other show that I’ve done.”
Rubbing it in
Faulkner went on to note that the modern version of The View has completely abandoned any semblance of “journalism” in favor of “vitriol.”
“What I do think is unique to them is vitriol,” Faulkner noted. “A news director told me early in my career, you don’t have to shout breaking news, and you don’t have to shout the truth.”
But she wasn’t done there, either.
The Fox News host went on to mock the fact that the co-hosts now spend more time reading legal notices to make up for their blatant lies and propaganda than discussing almost any other topic on-air.
“I’ve seen Sunny Hostin read so many apologies on the air recently for the legal exposure of some of the things that she and others have said on the show,” Faulkner noted. “That’s dicey.”
Faulkner added that the lack of ideological diversity on The View has turned the show into one big left-wing echo chamber at a time when Americans are extremely turned off by their woke antics.
“It looks like one of those anti-DOGE meetings or the hearings on Capitol Hill,” she explained. “Democrats right now are apoplectic, and they’re shouting, and they’re cussing at us.”
And finally, Faulkner spiked the football by pointing out that while she loves a good “competitor,” she’s more than pleased that The View’s co-hosts have put her in a position where she can “win even more.”
“I like a good competitor, it makes me better,” Faulkner stated. “So in some ways, whatever they have done over there, they’ve put me in a position where I can come out and win even more. So thank you.”
Ultimately, one month’s worth of lackluster viewership ratings aren’t the end of the world for a show as long-running as The View.
But it does seem as though this may just be the beginning of the end for the so-called “mainstream” media as we know it.
