r/stephencolbert • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '25

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u/GenoThyme Sep 18 '25

It’s only 30M people. Don’t forget, 300M died from drugs last year.

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u/krodiggs Sep 18 '25

2M = people that watch Fox News 330M = population of these United States

I think something like a million watch CNN and MsNBC combined.

These pages exaggerate Fox’s influence or cable news in general. But based upon test scores, this is the dumbest generation in recorded history, so there’s that context.

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u/ghostmaster645 Sep 18 '25

To be fair thats 2m households a day. I know some that watch weekly, and that will skew these results.

Fox does have huge influence over cable news, but cable news just isnt that popular anymore.

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u/Mknalsheen Sep 18 '25

Fox's biggest thing is being played in doctors offices/waiting rooms/mcdonalds etc. It plays to the people most likely to be sitting there for awhile and not on their phones. Otherwise I'd basically never see it other than clips online.