The Ingraham Angle | |
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File:Ingraham Angle Title Card.jpg The Ingraham Angle title card | |
Genre | Current affairs program Opinion-based conservative talk show |
Presented by | Laura Ingraham |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Production location | Washington, D.C.[1] |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Fox News |
Original release | |
Network | Fox News Channel |
Release | October 30, 2017 present | –
Related | |
Just In |
The Ingraham Angle is an American news and opinion-based talk show that premiered on October 30, 2017 on the Fox News Channel.[2] The show features Laura Ingraham and guests discussing the day's latest issues, news, and controversies.
In 2018, the show was the subject of a boycott in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, following a Twitter post in which Ingraham ridiculed a student activist, David Hogg for what she described as "whin[ing]" about his college applications being rejected.[3][4][5] 27 sponsors stopped advertising on the show.[6] The controversy surrounding the boycott resulted in a decline of favorable public perceptions of the Fox News brand.[7][8] Upon Ingraham's return to the show on April 9 following a week-long vacation, The Ingraham Angle occupied the top position for its time slot against CNN and MSNBC.[9]
History
In September 2017, Fox News announced the Ingraham Angle as the newest show in their primetime lineup and following The Sean Hannity Show at a new time of 9 PM ET/6 PM PT starting on October 30, 2017.[10] The addition of the Ingraham Angle was the network's fourth schedule change in 2017.[11] Before the show's debut, news anchors took over the 10 PM ET/7 PM PT time slot under the branding Fox News Tonight[12][13] Prior to hosting the Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham had been a guest host, guest panelist, and commentator on various Fox News primetime programs including The O'Reilly Factor and The Sean Hannity Show. She has hosted her weekday radio show since 2001.[14]
The Ingraham Angle's debut program guest was White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly. The show garnered 3.3 million total viewers with 622,000 viewers falling into the age group 25–54 years old. Other similar network programs in the same time slot on MSNBC and CNN had a million and two million viewers less, respectively, with Ingraham's show coming in first place of the three top cable news networks.[15]
Other guests on The Ingraham Angle have included Univision's Jorge Ramos,[16] former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer,[17] attorney and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz,[18] former Hillary Clinton State Department advisor and Deputy Secretary of State for Strategic Communications Philippe Reines.[19]
Controversies
LeBron James
In February 2018, Ingraham was criticized after she publicly said that basketball star LeBron James should not talk about politics and that he should "shut up and dribble."[20] Professional athletes complained about Ingraham's comment,[21] which was in response to Lebron's statement that President Donald Trump "doesn’t understand the people, and really don’t give a f--- about the people." She had been referring to her book entitled Shut Up & Sing detailing her retorts to personalities such as Jimmy Kimmel and Gregg Popovich.[22] No boycotts were attempted and no apologies were offered.[23]
Boycott
On February 14, 2018, David Hogg, aged 17, survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in which a mass shooter killed 17 people and wounded 17 more. A few days later, he and other shooting survivors founded Never Again MSD, a student group advocating for gun control. On March 24, Never Again MSD was a lead organizer of March for Our Lives, a global student-led demonstration with some demands to change gun law in the United States. More than a million protestors attended more than 800 events around the world.
Call for advertiser boycott
On March 28, The Daily Wire wrote an article listing the colleges which were and were not offering admission to Hogg.[24] Later that day Ingraham ridiculed Hogg, tweeting: "David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)"[4][25][3]
Hogg responded by accusing Ingraham of cyberbullying[26] and posted a list of Ingraham's advertisers, suggesting they be contacted by his followers.[26][5][27] In response to the boycott, 27 advertisers left the show.[6][28][29][30][31][32]
The following day, Ingraham tweeted an apology.[33][34][4][35] Hogg said that Ingraham's apology had only been caused by the walkout of several advertisers.[33] He said that he would accept an apology in the future if she denounced the way her network had been treating him and his friends.[36] Hogg and his supporters continued their pressure campaign on her show's advertisers.[35]
At the end of her Friday, March 30 show, Ingraham announced she was taking a week-long absence from the show for Easter; a break that was already planned according to Ingraham and Fox News.[37][38][39] A week later, on her show, Ingraham characterized the boycott as "Stalinist".[40] Ingraham returned to her show with the support of Rupert Murdoch.[41]
Response by advertisers
Within a day of Ingraham's comments about Hogg, sponsors started announcing that they would no longer advertise on The Ingraham Angle.[30][31][32][29][42][28] Rates for advertising during the show dropped since the start of the boycott. Prices for a 30-second spot dropped from an average range of $12,310–$14,732 to an average range of $11,305–$13,405, according to analysts.[43] Advertising time during the show dropped by as much as 52 percent.[43][42][41] By mid-April 2018, a total of 27 sponsors stopped advertising on The Ingraham Angle.[6][31][32][44][45][9]
Reaction
Following Ingraham's tweet, responses, and Hogg's tweets, polls showed that public perception of Fox News declined more than that of any advertiser.[7] Polling by YouGov BrandIndex in the days following the announcement of the boycott showed that the Fox News brand had sustained significantly more consumer perception damage than any of the advertisers.[7] The positive consumer perception of Ingraham dropped from 53 percent to 33 percent, according to the celebrity data and research firm Spotted.[8]
Hundreds of Russian bots on Twitter came to Ingraham's defense during the weekend following the boycott.[46] According to Hamilton 68, posts under the hashtag #IStandWithLaura jumped 2800 percent and was the top trending hashtag for Russian Twitter accounts.[46][47]
Ingraham was supported by singer and NRA board member Ted Nugent,[48][49] and talk show host Bill Maher who defended her on the grounds of free speech. Republican strategist Steve Schmidt speculated why Ingraham's advertisers pulled their support: "...this kid’s not scared. He’s not scared of the NRA. He’s not intimidated and scared by Laura Ingraham."[50]
Fox News co-president Jack Abernethy issued a statement of support for Ingraham: "We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts."[51][52][9]
Following Ingraham's return to the show on April 9, AdAge reported that as of the April 11 Wednesday night episode of The Ingraham Angle, the show averaged 2.7 million viewers with 559,000 in the 25-to-54 viewer age demographic. In comparison, the show averaged 2.2 million viewers and 434,484 in the same demographic on March 29, 2018.[9] For the entire week of April 9 through 13, 2018, Mediaite reported that the show's average number of viewers was 2.69 million viewers, putting The Ingraham Angle in first place over MSNBC and CNN.[53][better source needed] According to TheWrap, viewership for the week of Ingraham's return to the show were up 25% for 2018 at 3,099,000 total viewers and up 36% for the age 25 to 54 demographic with 685,000 viewers.[54]
See also
- Just In, previous show on Fox News hosted by Ingraham
- The Laura Ingraham Show
- List of programs broadcast by Fox News
Notes
References
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- ^ a b c Stanglin, Doug (March 29, 2018). "'In the spirit of Holy Week': Fox's Laura Ingraham apologizes to David Hogg after ad boycott". USA Today. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
- ^ a b Business Insider, Bryan Logan, March 29, 2018, Rejected by 4 colleges 'and whines about it': A Fox News host mocked a Parkland school shooting survivor — now he's going after her advertisers, Retrieved March 29, 2018, "...David Hogg ... is now going after a conservative talk-show host's advertisers after she made light of his college-rejection letters...."
- ^ a b c Lincoln, Ross (April 13, 2018). "Ebates Is 27th Laura Ingraham Sponsor to Pull Ads". The Wrap. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
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- ^ a b Joe Mandese (April 5, 2018). "Ingraham's 'Celebrity' Sentiment Declines By A Third Post-Hogg Tweet". MediaPost. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
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- ^ Media Matters, Bobby Lewis, February 16, 2018, Athletes are calling out Laura Ingraham for telling LeBron James to "shut up and dribble": Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade: “They use to try and hide it.. now the president has given everyone the courage to live their truths”, Retrieved April 10, 2018
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- ^ Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News, March 29, 2018, Maybe it’s time for Laura Ingraham to shut up, Retrieved April 10, 2018, "...Ingraham didn’t seem contrite from blowback in February after saying that basketball star LeBron James is ill-equipped ... Because he’s an athlete? Black? Either way, maybe Laura Ingraham should shut up...."
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Longtime NRA board member and musician Ted Nugent isn't backing down from criticizing some of the Parkland school shooting survivors, despite the backlash he's received.
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External links
- The Ingraham Angle on Fox News
- The Ingraham Angle at IMDb
- Top Laura Ingraham Advertisers, a tweet that established the boycott