Tucker Carlson is gone, but what if the network vanished too? Robert P. Jones conducts a data-based thought experiment
by Fox News has prompted me to conduct a thought experiment, one that imagines a kind of secular rapture event: If Fox News suddenly disappeared along with its most prominent host, what would America be like?
First, it’s important to understand just how big a footprint Carlson and Fox News have had in the television news market. According to the, Carlson’s show averaged 3.25 million viewers in the first quarter of this year, making it not only the largest draw on Fox News but one of the most-watched shows in all of cable news.
Recent public opinion surveys that ask about trust in TV news outlets confirm the strong presence of Fox News. According to, among the two-thirds of Americans who report consuming TV news, 17% say they most trust Fox News to give them accurate information about current events and politics—a number that is slightly larger than the proportion who most trust local TV news , CNN or public television . Only the combined broadcast news outlets outpace Fox News as America’s most trusted TV news source.
For the purposes of our thought experiment, let’s imagine an alternative reality in which the Republicans who most trust Fox News and the ultra-conservative outlets spawned by its model disappear and are replaced by Republicans who most trust any other television news source .In the arena of politics, the changes would be profound. On all things related to Donald Trump, the differences between Fox News Republicans and mainstream news Republicans are more than 30 percentage points.
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