Despite that competition, Fox News has maintained its grip on the conservative news ecosystem. Sean Hannity , who has been with the channel since the beginning, thinks he knows why. Hannity makes no secret about his opinions, or his points of view.
His 9 p. Hannity signed a new multi-year deal with Fox in , which, combined with new deals for 10 p. When asked whether he stands by those comments after a full four-year term, the Fox host is unequivocal. Yep absolutely. Do I think people were as outraged as they acted?
Hannity, of course, makes no secret of his support for the former president it has been a subject of criticism of some of his coverage , or his contempt for how he thinks Trump was covered during his term. In other words, he thinks Trump was dealt a bad hand by the virus, while President Biden got off easy from the media.
In fact, his entire routine is structured to a tee. Recent ratings numbers and other data show that his influence has been surpassed by one of his colleagues: Tucker Carlson.
Read More. Carlson — by fanning the flames of coronavirus trutherism and leaning into the anti-immigrant , populist movement that ushered Trump into the White House — now outrates Hannity handily and has proven to be far more effective at driving the national conversation.
Carlson's rise and Hannity's stumble reflect not only the current state of the conservative media, but also offer insight into the current state of the Republican Party. He's not a thinker. He's a propagandist," said Matthew Sheffield, the editor of Flux who worked in conservative media for more than a decade, including co-founding the right-wing media criticism site Newsbusters, but has since emerged as a disenchanted opponent of his old industry.
Sheffield noted that Hannity is a pundit who is at his best when he's promoting the Republican Party. But, with the GOP in disarray, he's searching for a new narrative -— and that's created an opening for Carlson. A Fox spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
What the data says. Throughout the Trump presidency, Hannity was unquestionably king of conservative media — and his ratings proved it. Carlson took over the p.
He ran a consistent second to Hannity in total viewers, though, up until around the November election. But a noticeable shift in conservative media occurred with Trump's downfall. Hannity, who had tied his relevance to the now-former President, started losing to Carlson in the ratings by sizable margins. In the fourth quarter of , coinciding with Trump losing the election, Hannity averaged 4. Carlson averaged 4. And in the first quarter of , while Fox as a whole saw a drop in ratings as Trump encouraged his disappointed followers to abandon the channel, Hannity averaged 2.
Data from Google Trends and IQ Media, which measures mentions in the press, also indicates that more people are interested in Carlson, and that he is simply more talked about than Hannity. A breakdown by region showed that, in every state, more people searched for Carlson's name than Hannity's. Compare that with how the two fared against each other in the first year of Carlson's show. During the period from May 1, , to May 1, , Hannity came out on top, with more searches for information about him than for Carlson in every state but Idaho.
IQ Media data paints a similar picture. Since the November election, Hannity has trended downward in press mentions while Carlson's trajectory has been trending north.
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