Fox News, CNN Face Decline as Media World Changes

Washington Post: The general drift for Fox News, CNN and MSNBC has been downward. Cable audiences peaked during the 2008 election and have been eroding since. Since 2009, the median daily audience for the three news networks has fallen 19 percent. The overall decline during prime-time hours has been steeper, 26 percent. Even Fox News, long the king of cable news, is no longer booming. It lost 2 percent of its overall audience last year. Meanwhile, fast Internet connections have exploded, shifting the demand for instantaneous news from TV sets to smartphones, tablets and desktop computers.