Sean Hannity Ratings, In a fitting coda to 2012, we’ve learned
that the ratings for rock-ribbed conservative Sean Hannity cratered
after Barack Obama won his second term, with viewers tuning out the Fox
News Channel talk-show host in droves.
According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around
half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox
News colleague Bill O’Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify
himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his
audience.
So what happened to Hannity?
The going wisdom is
that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned
him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that
the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all
but promised could never happen.
Before the election, Hannity was
riding high in the ratings and topped thought leaders on the right,
like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and talk radio bulldog Mark
Levin, who predicted Obama would lose in a landslide.
Those voices — and many others like them — all but drove the political coverage on Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs.
But
as Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic just after the election,
“Outside the conservative media, the narrative was completely
different.”
Because in reality, statistics proved the
presidential race was in fact never even close — despite the lopsided
picture delivered to faithful viewers by Hannity and those who shared
his opinions.
Wrote Friedersdorf: “The right-leaning outlets like
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh’s show are far more intellectually closed
than CNN or public radio. If you’re a rank-and-file conservative, you’re
probably ready to acknowledge that ideologically friendly media didn’t
accurately inform you about Election 2012. Some pundits engaged in
wishful thinking; others feigned confidence in hopes that it would be a
self-fulfilling prophecy; still others decided it was smart to keep
telling right-leaning audiences what they wanted to hear.”
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