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    ABC’s David Muir sees newscast ratings tank after his controversial
    debate moderating
    By Brian Flood, Fox News
    Published Sep. 17, 2024, 2:10 p.m. ET

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    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 Donald
    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.

    David Muir anchoring 'World News Tonight' at his desk, averaging 6.7
    million viewers after a debate in 2024
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    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.
    ABC via Getty Images
    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.

    “Every one of them should have been questioned by David Muir, who I’ve
    lost a lot of respect for. Everyone’s lost respect for him,” Trump said last week.

    “It was so … one-sided,” he continued. “It was one against three.”

    Muir and Donald Trump at debate
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    “Every one of them should have been questioned by David Muir, who I’ve
    lost a lot of respect for. Everyone’s lost respect for him,” Trump said last week.
    ABC
    Davis admitted in a post-debate interview that her fact-checking of
    Trump was influenced by the CNN debate that went disastrously for
    President Biden in June.

    “People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not
    [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,”
    Davis told the Los Angeles Times last week.

    On Sunday, ABC News’ Martha Raddatz even noted that Harris was wrong
    when she said there is “not one member of the United States military who
    is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world.”

    “Our fact-checkers found that to be false,” Raddatz said.

    Muir and Linsey Davis at the debate
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    “People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not
    [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,”
    Linsey Davis told the Los Angeles Times.
    MICHAEL LE BRECHT II / ABC NEWS

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    “There are currently 900 US military personnel in Syria, 2,500 US troops
    in Iraq. All have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months. We also have action in the Red Sea,” Raddatz continued. “Also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces special operators can be
    part of any sort of deadly raid.”

    Muir and Davis failed to correct Harris in front of the debate’s massive audience of nearly 70 million people.

    Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.

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    BigDaddy
    2 hours ago

    I sent a letter to my local ABC affiliate, and told them I remember the
    days of Walter Cronkite, Huntley & Brinkley, and the rest of the giants
    in the media. In those days I always felt the news was being presented
    fairly and accurately, without bias.

    I told them that sadly those days are long over ...

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    Willie Pete
    1 hour ago

    Muir’s ratings may be the least of his worries. The least.


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    Santino D'antonio
    54 minutes ago

    I will never watch this HOME OH again, period.


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    John Scala
    2 hours ago

    I lost a lot of respect for him during that debate. Disappointingly he
    is no different then the rest of the "talent" that delivers the days
    propaganda to us. Sadly, this is not the independent press that this
    country, and the world, desperately need. They are merely talking heads
    that read what ...

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    JuJuBee
    1 hour ago

    and may those numbers continue to plummet


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    Babbo
    1 hour ago

    You hit it spot on..."talent "🤦‍♀️

    Again...no news is good news..


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    PN
    3 hours ago

    THEY are pulling out all stops to prevent Trump from getting into the
    White House.

    THEIR last stand will be to control the people who count the votes, and
    the people who man the voting machines.

    I fear they will succeed.

    But, we've got to fight the good fight.

    Vote Trump!


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