Gabriela Bhaskar, for the Deseret News
As expected, cable news networks lost viewers after Donald Trump left office, but competitors who hoped Fox News would disappear with the 45th president were disappointed.
Even amid an industry-wide “Trump slump,” Fox still reigns in the latest Nielsen ratings, in part because of programming changes made after Joe Biden won, to include a larger role for Dana Perino, a former press secretary for President George W. Bush whose star has continued to rise amid the turmoil and corporate politics that often engulf cable news.
If you turn on Fox News in the morning, Perino is there, holding forth with perfectly coiffed hair and tales of relatable imperfection throughout two hours of “America’s Newsroom.” Tune in late afternoon, and she’s there, too, tossing out bon mots like a modern-day Dorothy Parker on the news panel “The Five.”