Fox News is on track to have its most-watched year ever, showing significant ratings growth despite having just come off a highflying election year.
With the second quarter coming to a close, Fox News averaged about the same number of viewers as the top three other cable news networks combined. And while rivals including CNN (-22%) and MSNBC (-18%) took hits following last quarter's inauguration-fueled boost, Fox News (-3%) remained nearly steady.
My theory is that the right wingers who give Fox those big numbers watch a lot of TV. On the other hand, progressives don't watch as much TV and spend more time on the Internet instead.
It means the Fox viewers are too dumb to change the channel.
And I don't need to watch them in order to know what they're saying. I only need to log on to DU. Same with Free Republic. I've never once been over to their site, yet I know all about them. Half their watchers are rooting against them and aren't fans. Without the opposition tuning in for their laugh of the day FOX would sink like rock.
They need to turn them off at Hotels. I travel a lot and about every hotel has fox news on in the lobby and in the breakfast area. For some reason there is a policy at hotels that make them all tune to Fox. You can ask for the station to be changes and I have, but it feels like a loosing battle sometimes.
Those f---ing hotels keep this sh-t on their tv screens because liberals and Dems are too busy or too scared to tell them it's sh-t, it's lies and if they want US to come stay in their f---ing hotels they'd turn that crap off!
I'm always astounded by the big flat screen TV at my dry cleaners. It's always on Fox news. Yet the people who work there are at best semi-literate, working part-time (so the SOB who owns the place can get by with minimum wages and no benefits).
Fox News's days are numbered. When the Fairness Doctrine is back in force there will be a whole new playing field.
How is that Fox news quarantine thing going anyways?
How is that Fox news quarantine thing going anyways?
Wow, the new site is going like gangbusters! I mean, the intricacy and detail is amazing.-
http://www.quarantinefoxnews.com/
QuarantineFoxNews.com
Coming soon: Kick FOX News out of public spaces!
Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 05:34 PM
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14. Fox News Gets Higher Ratings Because They Deliver A Consevative Fantasy World Version of the News
Liberals don't live in a bubble fantasy world, and as such, they don't need Glen Beck or Sean or Billo to give them this conservo-facist-sexist-racist view of the world. This is also why AM radio does not work well for progressives.
Also, this is explains why progressives love blog sites, message boards, etc. We tend to like a community of highly intelligent people, well informed people wherein we can share information, ideas, and learn from the world as well as each other.
We tend to like a community of highly intelligent people, well informed people wherein we can share information, ideas, and learn from the world as well as each other.
Codeine (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 10:35 PM
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24. There are 307 million Americans.
2 million are watching Fox News. I'm not impressed by something paid attention to by far less than 1% of all Americans
I flush more intel down the comode, than this whole valley of braind dead, vacuum headed, piles of putrid flesh!
AllosaursRus,
Its almost infuriating to venture over there and read garbage like that, on the other hand when you evaluate what you are dealing with, you realize that is just what it takes to simultaneously provide comedic value and peace of mind knowing you haven't joined the ranks of the insane. Believe it or not, I think there is alot to be learned from monitoring DUmmies
Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-25-09 05:34 PM
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14. Fox News Gets Higher Ratings Because They Deliver A Consevative Fantasy World Version of the News
Liberals don't live in a bubble fantasy world, and as such, they don't need Glen Beck or Sean or Billo to give them this conservo-facist-sexist-racist view of the world. This is also why AM radio does not work well for progressives.
Also, this is explains why progressives love blog sites, message boards, etc. We tend to like a community of highly intelligent people, well informed people wherein we can share information, ideas, and learn from the world as well as each other.