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Wow, Fox News is Screwed
Topic Started: Mar 3 2014, 01:12 AM (917 Views)
colo_crawdad
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What data is the left "cherry picking." The viewership of all evening news programs have been provided and linked.

Actually, Berton, your attack seems to be typical of the right wing and their cherry picking of data to "prove" Fox News is a leader in viewer numbers.
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Berton
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Comparing one hour when Fox News is on all day long.
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SMH Some don't know the difference between network and cable news.
Some watch the network with about 3 or 4 "bleed" stories and a clip of Obi saying something and think they get news. LOL
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Berton
Mar 3 2014, 09:21 AM
Comparing one hour when Fox News is on all day long.
And, comparing where Americans go to get their television news. Yeah that cherry picking. :sarcasim:
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Many watch network to get local weather and local news, very few watch if they want national news in depth. Is that a revelation for you Colo? lol
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News or entertainment. Or do they watch it for the commercials? LOL

3 or 4 stories do not make up much news no matter how many are watching it. If that is where they are getting their news then I can understand why there are so many in the US who are uninformed.

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Mar 3 2014, 09:21 AM
SMH Some don't know the difference between network and cable news.
Some watch the network with about 3 or 4 "bleed" stories and a clip of Obi saying something and think they get news. LOL
And, others simply make up stuff and then claim it was on the news.

Pat suggested that both network and cable news viewers are rapidly declining. But regardless, only 38% of Americans getting their television news news from ALL cable news networks.
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Hell you libs get your news from comedians so what?
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To watch even a day of Fox News – the anger, the bombast, the virulent paranoid streak, the unending appeals to white resentment, the reporting that’s held to the same standard of evidence as a late-­October attack ad – is to see a refraction of its founder, one of the most skilled and fearsome operatives in the history of the Republican Party. As a political consultant, Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993. "He was the premier guy in the business," says former Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins. "He was our Michelangelo."

In the fable Ailes tells about his own life, he made a clean break with his dirty political past long before 1996, when he joined forces with Murdoch to launch Fox News. "I quit politics," he has claimed, "because I hated it." But an examination of his career reveals that Ailes has used Fox News to pioneer a new form of political campaign – one that enables the GOP to bypass skeptical reporters and wage an around-the-clock, partisan assault on public opinion. The network, at its core, is a giant soundstage created to mimic the look and feel of a news operation, cleverly camouflaging political propaganda as independent journalism.

The result is one of the most powerful political machines in American history. One that plays a leading role in defining Republican talking points and advancing the agenda of the far right. Fox News tilted the electoral balance to George W. Bush in 2000, prematurely declaring him president in a move that prompted every other network to follow suit. It helped create the Tea Party, transforming it from the butt of late-night jokes into a nationwide insurgency capable of electing U.S. senators. Fox News turbocharged the Republican takeover of the House last fall, and even helped elect former Fox News host John Kasich as the union-busting governor of Ohio – with the help of $1.26 million in campaign contributions from News Corp. And by incubating a host of potential GOP contenders on the Fox News payroll– including Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum – Ailes seems determined to add a fifth presidential notch to his belt in 2012. "Everything Roger wanted to do when he started out in politics, he’s now doing 24/7 with his network," says a former News Corp. executive. "It’s come full circle."

Take it from Rush Limbaugh, a "dear friend" of Ailes. "One man has established a culture for 1,700 people who believe in it, who follow it, who execute it," Limbaugh once declared. "Roger Ailes is not on the air. Roger Ailes does not ever show up on camera. And yet everybody who does is a reflection of him."

The 71-year-old Ailes presents the classic figure of a cinematic villain: bald and obese, with dainty hands, Hitchcockian jowls and a lumbering gait. Friends describe him as loyal, generous and "slap your mama funny." But Ailes is also, by turns, a tyrant: "I only understand friendship or scorched earth," he has said. One former deputy pegs him as a cross between Don Rickles and Don Corleone. "What’s fun for Roger is the destruction," says Dan Cooper, a key member of the team that founded Fox News. "When the light bulb goes on and he’s got the trick to outmaneuver the enemy – that’s his passion." Ailes is also deeply paranoid. Convinced that he has personally been targeted by Al Qaeda for assassination, he surrounds himself with an aggressive security detail and is licensed to carry a concealed handgun.




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Try quoting a real news source for a change. LOL
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