Tea Party coverage leads to surge in Fox ratings

April 15, 2009 (Tea Party Night) Cable News Ratings

Everyone’s ratings were up on the night of the Tea Parties, but the ratings at Fox were in the stratosphere. They can’t even see MSNBC in their rear view mirror anymore.

The Comedy Network’s Daily Show and Colbert climbed into the top ten at the expense of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’S Larry King.

The ratings for Ed Schultz’ EdShow were so abysmal that MSNBC may rename it “Weekday at Bernie’s.” And all that talk about “teabagging” caused Anderson Cooper to suck. Or maybe we should have said his ratings sucked. Yeah, that’s what we should have said.

Source: Neilsen Media Research via Media Bistro

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  • Not a suprise. Fox is continuing the traditions of William Randolph Hearst's yellow journalism rag. Both are incredibly popular, and their most popular news stories are the ones they've contrived.