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From Fox News: 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.
Muir dismissed criticisms of his debate moderator performance as just “noise.”
Fox News pounced on Muir’s ratings drop:
ABC’s David Muir says that the controversy surrounding his historically awful moderation of the presidential debate is “just noise.”
Well his ratings are DOWN 12% following the debate. Less people are listening to his nightly noise now. Good! pic.twitter.com/XBH6KPLxni
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 17, 2024
ABC’s David Muir sees newscast ratings decline after controversial debate performance https://t.co/dpQmC8fbO7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 17, 2024
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