Four hundred rabbis tired of the incessant and relentless on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis took out an ad in the Wall Street Journal requesting Fox News tell Glenn Beck to tone it down. Published on the occasion of the UN Holocaust Remembrance Day by the Jewish Funds For Justice as an open letter, it says, “It is because this issue has a profound impact on each of us, our families and our communities that we are calling on Fox News to meet the standard it has set for itself: “to exercise the ultimate sensitivity when referring to the Holocaust.”
Stop Beck, an effort to dissuade responsible advertisers from supporting Beck’s radio and television program, Beck has lost hundreds of advertisers and ad revenue. Now it looks like Beck’s viewers may be tiring of the daily dose of chalkboard litanies against 78 year old college professors and aging billionaires as well.
Recently, the two largest media markets in the country, New York and Philadelphia, dropped Beck’s radio program and now it seems his television ratings are taking a serious tumble as well.
the days of Glenn Beck drawing three million viewers are long gone. And they’re never coming back. But at this rate, the two-million viewership mark seems to be slipping away, too. Glenn Beck now routinely flirts with ratings in the 1.6-1.8 million range, which is almost exactly half the rating Beck was getting one year ago. In truth, that’s how many viewers Glenn Beck used to attract when the host was on vacation and somebody less famous stood in for him. Now that’s how many tune in when he’s there in the studio.
More than forty days since he did his fundraiser for Wilmington, Ohio, Beck still hasn’t shared the proceeds with the community.
Light years in terms of entertainment value? Certainly not light years in terms of regurgitating factual information… the guy obliterates facts like no other
I’s a fallen away Beckie. Listened, viewed, and read his books. It’s the same every day. I need some spice in my life as my 83 year old neighbor tells me. I was traveling in a area of the world a few months ago and listening (on the computer) to Beck. Sounded like Oral Roberts who I recall had been called home by GOD if he did not raise millions by the week end. Beck went on and on about his eyes, his stomach, his unknown maladies, the [possibility that someone had been poisening him. I have enough of my own maladies I don’t need his. He sounded like Rev Roberts. I can understand the loss of advertisers and viewers. But, he’s still light years ahead of anything on MSNBC.