Executives at the network are scrambling to explain away the unusual sight of a “news” network losing viewers in the midst of an election year.

Fox chief executive Lachlan Murdoch admitted Monday that the network is losing viewers heading into the midterm elections, according to the Financial Times. “We are seeing viewer fatigue,” Murdoch told investors on an earnings call. “They’re just fatigued and watching slightly less television.” Fox News’ primetime…

Fox News is facing its worst ratings decline in years, at a time when most news channels see a boom in viewership. As it faces this free fall, a new piece from MS NOW argued that the network is trapped "between a rock and a hard place" with no good choices about how to proceed. Last week, reports emerged that…