The Ingraham Angle

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The Ingraham Angle
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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(s) English
Production
Production location(s) Washington, D.C.[1]
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Fox News
Release
Original network Fox News Channel
Picture format 720p (16:9 HDTV)
Original release October 30, 2017 (2017-10-30) –
present
Chronology
Preceded by Hannity
Related shows Just In
External links
Website

The Ingraham Angle is an American news and opinion-based talk show that premiered on October 30, 2017 on the Fox News Channel.[2] Announced after a deal between host Laura Ingraham and FNC was reported by the Drudge Report,[3] the show features Ingraham and guests discussing the day's latest issues, news, and controversies.

History

In September 2017, Fox News provided a press release announcing 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. Stating in the announcement that the show would debut on October 30, 2017, the press release touted Ingraham to have "...extraordinary insight, expertise and strong voice have connected with our viewers across the network’s programming. We look forward to her providing the audience with her exceptional commentary, engaging insight and spirited debate."[4] The addition of the Ingraham Angle was the network's fourth schedule change in 2017.[5]. Before the show's debut, news anchors took over the 10 PM ET/7 PM PT timeslot under the branding Fox News Tonight[6][7] Prior to hosting the Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham had been a guest host as well as a guest panelist and commenter on various Fox News primetime programs including The O'Reilly Factor and The Sean Hannity Show. Ingraham has hosted her weekday radio show since 2001.[8]

The Ingraham Angle's debut program guest was White House Chief of Staff General John 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.[9][10]

Other guests on The Ingraham Angle have included Univision's Jorge Ramos,[11] former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer,[12] attorney and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz,[13] former Hillary Clinton State Department advisor and Deputy Secretary of State for Strategic Communications Philippe Reines.[14]

As of April 13, 2018, The Ingraham Angle is rated number one in its time slot against CNN and MSNBC.[15]

Controversies

LeBron James

In February 2018, Ingraham was citicized after she publicly said that basketball star LeBron James should not talk about politics, and that he should "shut up and dribble."[16] Professional athletes complained about Ingraham's comment,[17] 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.[18] No boycotts were attempted and no apologies were offered.[19]

Boycott

On February 14, 2018, Hogg, age 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 safety in school. 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.

Twitter comment by Ingraham

On March 28, The Daily Wire wrote an article listing the colleges which were and were not offering admission to Hogg.[20] 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.)"[21][22][23]

Hogg responded by accusing Ingraham of cyberbullying[24] and posted a list of Ingraham's advertisers, suggesting they be contacted by Hogg's followers.[24] In response to the boycott, 24 advertisers left the show.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]

The following day, Ingraham tweeted an apology.[33][34][35][36] Hogg said that Ingraham's apology had only been caused by the walkout of several advertisers.[37] 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.[38] Hogg and his supporters continued their pressure campaign on her show's advertisers.[36]

At the end of her Friday, March 30 show, Ingraham announced she was taking a week-long absence from the show for Easter; this week-long break was already planned in advance prior to the controversy and advertiser loss, according to Ingraham and Fox News.[39][40] [41] A week later, on the Ingraham Angle in her opening segment, Ingrham stated, "Expressing views that just five or ten years ago were considered mainstream can now get you fired...you can get boycotted...their efforts are Stalinist...left-wing activists use these terms as bludgeons to intimidate those who disagree...".[42] Ingraham returned to her show with the support of Rupert Murdoch.[43]

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.[28][29][30][27][44][25] 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.[45] Advertising time during the show dropped by as much as 52 percent.[45][44][43] A total of 23 sponsors have stopped advertising on The Ingraham Angle as of mid-April 2018.[29][30][46][47] 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."[48]

Ace Hardware had pulled their advertising from the show on April 5, however, the company reversed their decision one week after they announced their original intent to no longer support The Ingraham Angle. Stating their decision to remove their advertising from the show based on "incomplete information", Ace Hardware's ads were back on the show as of Thursday, April 12, 2018. In an email to the entertainment blog, TheWrap, a spokesperson for the company said regarding the reinstatement, "We appreciate the different points of view from our customers, and believe people should be treated with respect and civility."[49][50][15]

List of advertisers backing out of The Ingraham Angle

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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.[51] 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.[51] The positive consumer perception of Ingraham dropped from 53 percent to 33 percent, according to the celebrity data and research firm Spotted.[52]

Hundreds of Russian bots on Twitter came to Ingraham's defense during the weekend following the boycott.[53] According to Hamilton 68, posts under the hashtag #IStandWithLaura jumped 2800 percent and was the top trending hashtag for Russian Twitter accounts.[53][54]

Ingraham was supported by musician Ted Nugent[55] and HBO talk show host Bill Maher who defended her on the grounds of free speech. Maher's support came from his own experience from being previously boycotted and said on the April 8, 2018 installment of his show that he feels advertiser boycotts are wrong and can be "chilling" as well as "the modern way of cutting off free speech...".[55][56]

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."[57][58][15]

According to AdWeek, during the first three nights back on the air following her vacation, primetime ratings of cable news viewership showed that The Ingraham Angle remained second or third among cable news viewership on Fox News, and fourth or fifth overall in viewership across all cable news networks.[59][60][61] 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.

See also

References

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