user47602 wrote:
getting the FOX News drip, eh
You are showing your own lack of intellect while at the same time suggesting that it is you yourself who is uninformed... What is interesting while you sleep wrapped tightly in the cocoon of misinformation provided to you by the MSM and left wing news sites America is waking up to the fact that FOX may be the only real place to become fully informed as the MSM has been nothing other than complicit in helping the administration and democrats hoodwink the American people... A few excerpts from a recent article in the Baltimore Sun poses this question directly....
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Much of the media establishment seems bent on ignoring the incredible ratings success of Fox News. Or, maybe its just that Fox has pounded CNN and MSNBC in the ratings for so long that another victory doesnt seem like news especially with MSNBC imploding and CNN committing to any genre but news in an effort to find new audiences.
But there are three ratings stories the last two weeks that taken together show Fox News rising to a new and remarkable level of dominance - and they have been underreported in the mainstream media.
First, Fox News beat not just CNN and MSNBC, but also ABC, NBC and CBS on Nov. 4, the night of the mid-term elections. It did so in both total viewers and the key news demographic: viewers 25 to 54 years of age.
From Nate Silver to Jay Carney, more election coverage, less insight
Fox more than tripled the audiences of MSNBC and CNN in total viewers, while beating ABC, NBC and CBS by more than 3 million, 2 million and 1 million viewers respectively. (See figures at end of post.)
On a watershed political night, more Americans tuned to Fox for information about the vote than anywhere else.
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And then, we need to start seriously trying to figure out how and why it has come to pass that Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly matter more to Americans on election night than Brian Williams, Scott Pelley, George Stephanopoulos, Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer way more than the latter two.
I think one of the reasons for this latest evolution of ratings dominance might be that Fox was a far better watchdog on the Obama White House than any other TV news organization. It took the heat and the blowback from an administration that showed an enmity for the press not seen on Pennsylvania Avenue since the dark days of Richard Nixon, but it stayed the course. And now with viewers seeing the contempt this administration had for them and the truth, they respect what Fox did the last six years.
Or maybe, its what some critics of Fox say: That those who watch the channel only want to hear one side of the story, and thats all that Fox gives them. The implication here is that Fox viewers are stupid, to borrow an offensive term that Jonathan Gruber, the administration's $400,000 adviser on Obamacare, used to describe American voters.
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