CNN sits at the bottom for ratings of cable news. FoxNews is the most watched in cable news. Apparently people trust FoxNews over CNN for its honesty in reporting.

The reason you give to explain why FoxNews has the largest following.....its "honesty" in reporting".....is simply your personal belief. And in reality, the true facts don't bear that out. In fact, they emphasize quite the opposite.

A study that Fairleigh Dickinson had conducted showed that: "Media outlets such as Fox News and MSNBC have a negative impact on people's current events knowledge while NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative sources of news, according to Fairleigh Dickinson University's newest PublicMind survey." They also found that people who watched no news at all were more accurately informed than FoxNews watchers.

businessinsider.com - Study watching fox news makes you less informed than watching no news at all

A group fighting against fear-mongering news sources also summarizes Politifact's findings when fact-checking FoxNews assertions: 10%-true, 12%-mostly true, 19%-half true, 21%-mostly false, 29%-false, 9%-pants on fire.

https://hearyourselfthink.org/fox/

The Pew Research Center has learned this about news sources and adherents. "Fox News, the influential cable network launched by Rupert Murdoch in 1996, holds a unique place in the American media landscape, particularly for those on the ideological right. While Democrats in the United States turn to and place their trust in a variety of media outlets for political news, no other source comes close to matching the appeal of Fox News for Republicans."

pewresearch.org - Five facts about fox news

And here's an interesting study of a different kind, published this past spring, in which arch-conservative Fox TV viewers were paid to watch CNN for a month, and assessed before and after for their awareness of facts.
"The study, titled 'The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers' beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers,' was performed by a pair of political scientists: David Broockman, who teaches at UC-Berkeley, and Joshua Kalla, who teaches at Yale. According to Broockman and Kalla, when these Fox viewers watched CNN, they heard about all sorts of things Fox wasn't telling them. They processed that information. They took it in. They became more knowledgeable about what was really going on in the United States.

The experiment didn't change their political preferences ' certainly not in just one month. But it slightly altered their perceptions of certain key issues and political candidates."

nbcnews.com - Fox news study comparing fox cnn highlights cable tvs harm

Just this past December, the Washington Post and Univ of Maryland conducted a poll that included information on respondents' news sources and personal political orientation. And they found that Democrats tune in to a variety of sources, but Republicans and those leaning Republican rely on only 2.....Fox News and local news. And Fox caters to Republicans in what they present and how they present it, because this ensures their leading share of the market.

"The Washington Post and University of Maryland conducted a national poll that included an assessment of where people get their news about politics and government. Among Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, a variety of sources ' CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, the Times, The Post ' were identified as a main source of news by at least 3 in 10. Among Republicans, though, only two were: local television and Fox News."

washingtonpost.com - Unique damaging role fox news plays american media

And as an aside......In 2020, which included covid and the lockdown, the presidential election, and George Floyd's murder, CNN viewership had exploded, and to a far greater degree than Fox viewership did. CNN at this point is undergoing intense strife and change. Their viewership cratered in Feb 2022 when this all dramatically began, and they still have significant work and recovery ahead of them.

=sheila