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In The News:

The last 36 hours of coverage have been about the Austin Bomber and the Trump women (those claiming to have had relations with him). The Austin bomber deserved the coverage, and with his demise this AM we are as anxious as any to understand why he did this. It’s nice to see the MSM praise the police for once. They normally only cover negative police stories.

On the Trump woman, we still say we don’t care. Whatever he did, in consensual relationships, before he was President is not our business. It is Melania’s, not ours. Why the coverage we don’t understand, well maybe we do, it’s Trump. If anyone thought he was a choir boy before, then you lived in a bubble. If he doing anything in the oval office on my dime, I want to know. As far as we hear, he has been texting and not leaving stains on blue dresses.
Plus since he has not accepted a pay check, we don’t care about ten years ago.
Here’s a poll released on this. Notice who now think that private sex lives of a consensual nature are important.
49 percent overall say these allegations are of “very little importance to the nation”; 68 percent of Republicans, 57 percent of independents and 24 percent of Democrats agree.
19 percent overall say they are of “great importance”; 10 percent of Republicans, 13 percent of independents and 35 percent of Democrats.

A Story Undercovered:

Why has the Baltimore school shooting received little to no coverage? A student showed up at school with a handgun ready to kill. If he had killed ten the coverage would have been enormous. Is it because an officer in the school took out the potential killer? Is it because an armed person in the school prevented a blood bath? Shouldn’t that be big news? Others are alive because we had an armed guard at the school. Why is that not big news? Does it not fit a narrative the MSM wants?
The solution to school shootings is multi faceted as we have outlined numerous times. An armed guard at the school is one. You can’t wait seven minutes for police to arrive. You need immediate action. This shooting illustrates that again.
A 17 year old should not have a gun. We all agree. But if they do and show up, a trained security should be there to take them out. If the media would cover this as much as it would have if many died, and let kids know other schools have the same security, we would see less attacks.
A story missed.

Ralph Peters leaves Fox and Blasts the station

On his way out the door Peters said “Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration”.  He added “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed”.

We get that Fox presents a different view of the world and events than CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC.  Ralph now that you have time to watch the others let us know how you view their coverage. You might be surprised, or maybe you already have an offer to join one?

Speaking of Coverage:

Did you see this anywhere?
Three of the 800 illegal immigrants who managed to escape last month’s enforcement sweep in the San Francisco area have already gone on to commit new crimes, notching charges of robbery, drunken driving and spousal abuse, the government’s deportation chief said Tuesday.

Bet you didn’t and won’t see this covered. I wonder if Fox did cover it if Ralph Peters would consider that bias?

Byron York Column

Byron York has a great column today with this headline:
“If Mueller didn’t charge Flynn and Manafort with collusion, then who was colluding”?
Great question isn’t it?  He wrote this:
“None of those charges, at least so far, has involved allegations that Flynn, Manafort, Gates, or Papadapoulos played a role in a scheme of collusion, or coordination, or conspiracy, or whatever it is called. And that could tell the public something about the state of the collusion allegation inside the Mueller investigation.

To put it briefly: What kind of collusion scheme between Russia and the Trump campaign could have existed without Michael Flynn being part of it? What kind of collusion scheme could have existed without Manafort? And Gates? And yet none of them — nor Papadapoulos, either — has been charged with taking part in a collusion scheme.

Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to investigators about what he discussed in a phone conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. (Investigators have always known what the two men talked about, since the call was wiretapped, recorded, and transcribed.)

Manafort has been charged with a daunting number of financial crimes, including fraud and tax evasion, relating to his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.

Gates was charged with most of the crimes Manafort faced, but received a deal from Mueller, allowing him to plead guilty to one count of lying to investigators and one count of hiding profits from his work with Manafort in Ukraine.

The Mid-Terms

Speaker Pelosi as we have been predicting? Here’s a poll yesterday.
A generic ballot, in which participants are asked which party should control Congress. As the 2018 midterm congressional campaign intensifies, the March poll found registered voters picked Democrats by a 50%-to-40% margin, the second time in three months the party has claimed a double-digit advantage.

Ratings

Total Viewers FRIDAY. A close race that Fox wins. CNN continues to lag. 

  • Total day: FNC: 1.640 | CNN: 791 | MSNBC: 1.396 | HLN: 236
  • Primetime: FNC: 2.507 | CNN: 968 | MSNBC: 2.408 | HLN: 347
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.143		 Five:
1.837		 Baier:
1.860		 MacCallum:
1.688		 Carlson:
2.275		 HannitySpcl:
2.539		 Ingraham:
2.705		 Bream:
1.841
CNN Tapper:
811		 Blitzer:
902		 Blitzer:
817		 Burnett:
937		 Cooper:
1.038		 Cooper:
941		 Tonight:
921		 Tonight:
797
MSNBC Wallace:
1.324		 MTPDaily:
1.321		 Melber:
1.435		 Matthews:
1.573		 Hayes:
1.929		 Maddow:
2.884		 O’Donnell:
2.411		 Wlms:
1.983
HLN Michaela:
88		 Files:
117		 Files:
176		 Files:
210		 Files:
282		 Files:
392		 Files:
366		 Files:
337

Total SATURDAY. Fox wins weekend beating competition combined. 

  • Total day: FNC: 1.282 | CNN: 690 |  MSNBC: 801 | HLN: 303
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.806 | CNN: 730 | MSNBC: 812 | HLN: 314
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
875		 NwsHQ:
952		 NwsHQ:
983		 Report:
1.115		 Watters:
1.670		 Pirro:
2.048		 Gutfeld:
1.699		 Watters:
1.249
CNN Nwsrm:
649		 Nwsrm:
685		 Smerc:
636		 Newsrm:
737		 Nwsrm:
746		 Kennedys:
697		 Sex:
746		 Bourdain:
395
MSNBC News:
822		 News:
823		 Hayes:
709		 Maddow:
740		 O’Donnell:
801		 11thHour:
817		 Wallace:
818		 Matthews:
635
HLN Files:
307		 Files:
343		 Files:
279		 Files:
264		 Files:
312		 Files:
293		 Files:
337		 Files:
444

Total Viewers CNN wins Sunday with it’s Kennedy and Pope Series Shows. 

  • Total day: FNC: 1.034 | CNN: 859 | MSNBC: 607 | HLN: 295
  • Prime time: FNC: 1164 | CNN: 1.276| MSNBC: 489 | HLN: 340
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NewsHQ:
643		 Gutfeld:
689		 Report:
806		 FNSunday:
1.112		 WiseGuys:
1.026		 Hilton:
1.253		 Levin:
1.213		 WiseGuys:
776
CNN Nwsrm:
631		 Nwsrm:
690		 Nwsrm:
675		 Nwsrm:
820		 Kennedys:
833		 Kennedys:
1.772		 Pope:
1.223		 Kennedys:
752
MSNBC News:
685		 News:
722		 MTP:
800		 KasieDC:
849		 KasieDC:
789		 DatelineXtra:
428		 Lockup:
249		 Lockup:
245
HLN DthRow:
302		 DthRow:
313		 DthRow:
320		 DthRow:
375		 DthRow:
269		 Killer:
318		 DthRow:
333		 DthRow:
337

Total MONDAY. Another close race Monday with Fox edging out MSNBC.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.708 | CNN: 852 | MSNBC: 1.371 | HLN: 233
  • Primetime: FNC: 2.781 | CNN: 1.177 | MSNBC: 2.515 | HLN: 269
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.384		 Five:
2.066		 Baier:
2.025		 MacCallum:
1.903		 Carlson:
2.760		 Hannity:
3.110		 Ingraham:
2.470		 Bream:
1.554
CNN Tapper:
939		 Blitzer:
1.041		 Blitzer:
926		 Burnett:
1.058		 Cooper:
1.187		 Cooper:
1.160		 Lemon:
1.179		 Lemon:
877
MSNBC Wallace:
1.282		 MTPDaily:
1.326		 Melber:
1.539		 Matthews:
1.843		 Hayes:
2.021		 Maddow:
3.171		 O’Donnell:
2.353		 Wlms:
1.695
HLN Michaela:
98		 Cupp:
79		 Banfield:
96		 Banfield:
171		 DthRow:
201		 Files:
266		 Files:
341		 Files:
399
Top 5 basic cable networks for the week of March 12:

Cable Top 5 – Prime time.
TBS and TNT covered NCAA basketball to move into 3 and 4 slots.

  1. Fox News (2,370,000)
  2. MSNBC (2,027,000)
  3. TBS (1,755,000)
  4. TNT (1,695,000)
  5. HGTV (1,469,000)

Cable Top 5 – Total Day 

  1. Fox News (1,384,000)
  2. MSNBC (1,107,000)
  3. Nickelodeon (952,000)
  4. TNT (791,000)
  5. HGTV (789,000)
Business News:

Fox Business News swept the week across business day and market hours (9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET) for the third time in 2018.

Lou Dobbs Tonight and Varney & Co. continued as the two-most-watched business news programs.
FBN also notched 7 of the top 10 business news shows in total viewers, including Dobbs, Varney, Cavuto Coast to Coast, Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman, and The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan.

Business Day (M-F, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET):

FBN: 226,000 total viewers / 31,000 A25-54

CNBC: 182,000 total viewers / 26,000 A25-54

Market Hours (9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET)

FBN: 232,000 total viewers / 33,000 A25-54

CNBC: 186,000 total viewers / 27,000 A25-54

Morning News Numbers for the week of March 12:

Total Viewers:
ABC: 4.025M / ABC: 3.877M / CBS: 3.218M

Evening News Numbers for the week of March 12:

Total Viewers:

ABC: 8,813,000.  NBC 7,857,0006,  CBS 703,000

Network TV:

CBS with NCAA basketball was the most-watched broadcast network last week, averaging 7 million viewers.
NBC had 5.6 million,       ABC had 4.7 million,      Fox had 2.6 million,
Univision had 1.6 million, ION Television had 1.5 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 1 million.

 

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