David Muir’s ‘ABC World News Tonight’ Suffers Ratings Drop Following Trump/Harris Debate
“Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked former President Trump five times without ever correcting Vice President Kamala Harris”
In the days following the presidential debate on ABC News, moderator David Muir has seen the ratings on his program drop significantly. It’s no surprise, considering the fact that Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis spent most of their time arguing with Trump while repeatedly giving Kamala Harris a pass.
People on the right are sick and tired of Democrat activists play-acting at being journalists.
FOX News reports:
ABC’s David Muir sees newscast ratings decline after controversial debate performance
ABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir may have driven away some viewers after the Disney-owned network irked conservatives during last week’s presidential debate.
Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked former President Trump five times without ever correcting Vice President Kamala Harris, prompting a plethora of conservatives to suggest the debate wasn’t fair. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America even called for a correction after Davis made an abortion claim made during the debate during one of the fact-checks on Trump that the group said was “100% inaccurate.”
Muir’s “World News Tonight” averaged 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the three episodes following the debate, after averaging 7.6 million in 2024 leading up to the debate.
The 12% drop in viewers for “World News Tonight” is more significant than slight declines “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” saw when comparing the three episodes following ABC’s debate to the year-to-date totals, although Muir’s newscast remained the No. 1 broadcast evening newscast.
While it’s unclear if Trump supporters have tuned out ABC’s newscast on the heels of the debate, the former president has blasted it as “one-sided.” Trump told Fox News that he believed Harris should have been fact-checked on a variety of claims.
Muir has dismissed criticism from Trump and others about the debate as ‘noise.’
From the Daily Beast, via Yahoo News:
ABC Anchor David Muir: Trump’s Debate Whining is ‘Noise’
ABC anchor David Muir has dismissed the criticism he received after the Donald Trump/Kamala Harris TV debate of last week as “noise.”
Muir opted not to engage with the criticism leveled by Trump during a Monday appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark, calling the second assassination attempt on the former president “horrific,” while also suggesting people “lower the temperature” after Sunday’s incident.
Trump decried the debate as “THREE ON ONE” and vowed to not participate in a second one, and he specifically targeted Muir—once an anchor he doted over—over his performance. “His hair’s not as good as it used to be,” Trump told a rally audience last week.
“All of the noise that you hear afterward about you know, ‘Which candidate won the debate, did the moderators win or lose?’” Muir said on Kelly and Mark. “That’s just noise.”
The Outnumbered show on FOX News discussed this issue yesterday. Watch:
🚨 JUST IN: Ratings for David Muir’s “World News Tonight” TANKED following his disastrous debate moderating
GOOD!
Viewership for his nightly ABC Newscast dropped by almost ONE MILLION—12%— in the three days following the debate.
The American people saw the media bias that… pic.twitter.com/275qAjCKba
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 17, 2024
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That would suggest there are conservatives watching ABC? Or were.
Old conservatives. The median age for the Big Three evening newscasts is an eye-watering 69. There’s a reason 70% or more of their ad revenue comes from Big Pharma…and that’s the reason. The median age for cable news is only just a bit lower, maybe 67. Television, broadcast & cable, is not a thing for people <30 anymore. It's been displaced by gaming, YouTube, phone apps, podcasts & Twitch, and honestly, I'm not sure what else. The smartest thing Trump has done this campaign cycle is set for interviews on a number of high-vis podcasts. It's really the only way to reach these voters because traditional media, like David Muir's program, are in their death throes.
Makes good sense, thanks.
Well, it’s helpful to know what the other side is saying/ thinking.
Having said that, I haven’t watched TV & news since ditching cable during “covid,” although I am technically a Baby Boomer (Generation Jones) and thus in their theoretical demographic. It amazes me how many of my high school classmates still hang on every word of these TV talking heads.
The title of the television show may contains news, but there is no objective news in the content.
ABC’s “Globalist Propaganda Tonight” just doesn’t roll off the tongue, does it?
“In Pravda there’s no izvestia and in Izvestia there’s no pravda.”?
abc responded:
why should we fact check kamala
we know she is correct
At ABC, advancing the proponents of socialism is more important than mere ratings.
Why was anyone watching this ZERO in the first place?
May it continue until Muir morphs into Stelter.
Then his hair REALLY won’t be as good as it used to be.
I find this a little strange considering he was blatantly partisan on his show before the debates.
Time to Bud Light his ass.
At age 76, I watch ABC just to see what slant the left is pitching that night. I get my real news from Fox, this site, Breitbart and Reason. While the latter outlets do swing conservative, it has been my experience that they tend to be more aligned to reality than the former.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Muir deserves every bit of his ratings decline. Play partisan games, win partisan prizes.
Our local news led into ABC World News. We gave up on Muir and ABC long ago as everything was “breaking news as we come on the air”.