Gop-Fox News Network Analysis

In “GOP-Fox Circus Act,” Reed Richardson examines Fox News’s relative control on the success of the Republican Party and explains why both are struggling to gain prominence. In 2012, Republicans placed an incredible amount of faith in Mitt Romney to win the election over Barack Obama. However, all of that faith came crashing down on election night, when Obama won for the second time in four years. The second consecutive loss for Conservatives on a national level forced them to search for the root of the problem. However, Richardson explains that they might not even need to look past their television sets to find it. Fox News is negatively trending, and they are struggling to find a solution to the problem. The network is distinctly conservative, and that attracts a predominantly old audience. This can be beneficial, as the elderly audience is not likely to change its views and stop watching the network anytime soon. However, it can also be detrimental, as Fox News wants to gain young viewers without changing its values and losing their old viewers. The company’s ratings among the twenty-five to fifty-four year old demographic has experienced a steep decline in recent months. Its viewership is “’quite literally dying’”. To combat these problems, the network has attempted to change its reputation from conservatively close-minded to more liberally open-minded. In doing this, they fired two prominent Republican employees and …show more content…
The answer to that question is yet to be found. Fox News can contribute by becoming a more objective news network, but they are too comfortable in their ways as of now. Richardson does not see a solution presenting itself to the problem anytime soon. One or the other can change, but that will fail to fix the problem. They both must realize their dependence on each other, or as Richardson states: “…each must recognize that the other isn’t its salvation; instead, they’re both part of the