Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, August 21, 2020

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

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Bill O'Reilly here, and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, but first. On this Friday, I am not surprised that few people, relatively speaking, are watching politics this week. The Democratic National Convention viewership is down close to 40% on the networks and cable. The Biden speech will spike things up a little bit, but, But all in all, the virtual convention is a disaster as far as TV viewing is concerned. Now, the ultra-liberal MSNBC led the ratings pack, followed by the ultra-liberal CNN. The rather conservative Fox News Channel averaged only 2 million viewers, a disaster. But next week, when the Republicans gather, Fox will win big.

The broadcast networks, ABC, NBC, CBS suffered the biggest drops, a combined falloff of 42% from four weeks ago. The national news coverage of politics in general is boring, is it not? Commentators on television are afraid of the Twitter mob. That's the big change. When I was doing cable news, I was pretty provocative. out there. But with just a few exceptions, now, political commentators play it very safe, and that's why few are watching. Now this. That is the Morning O'Reilly Update. More analysis later on.