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You have one news station reporting things with a slant to the Right and several reporting with a slant to the Left.
Assuming half the people are right of center and half are left of center, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the ONE station on the Right will get more viewers than any of the SEVERAL on the Left.
On the other hand, if they didn't get the most viewers and by a large margin, I'd think they were truly pitiful.
This is perceptive. Let me make a simple analogy for those who missed your point...
Half the people in USAville prefer steak.
The other half prefer Italian.
There is one steakhouse in town.
There are three Italian places in town.
They all dine out the same number of times each week.
Guess which one serves more meals?
I read the Yahoo puff-piece. There was plenty of horseshit being piled up; let me point out an example.
Fox News is no. 1, but with that comes plenty of critics, especially when it comes to worldview. When Jon Stewart was a guest on your network, with Bill O'Reilly on "The Factor," he argued that "there is a selective outrage machine here at Fox that pettifogs only when the narrative suits them." What is your reaction to that?
A couple things. Stewart is not a writer. He's a comedian. He has a lot of writers who write for him. And they come up with some great lines. So I'm not even sure he came up with that himself, but let's just say he did. It's his opinion, he can say whatever he wants.
Jon Stewart was a guest on Fox. He was "interviewed" by O'Reilly. I presume O'Reilly didn't give a list of questions to Stewart beforehand.
Shine says, "He has a lot of writers who write for him. And they come up with some great lines. So I'm not even sure he came up with that himself..."
Think about what Shine is implying. Is it plausible that Jon Stewart had writers supply him with answers to any possible question O'Reilly might come up with?
This is one of the deceptive techniques Fox uses on the gullible. Another is the same technique advertisers have used on radio and TV - ratcheting the volume up. I hear it's now prohibited, but adverts used to be allowed to be at the same volume as the loudest part of the show/broadcast. No dynamic range, in other words. Fox isn't a chamber concert; it's a cacaphony.
Then we have Roger Ailes himself:
"Ailes' career in television began in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he started as property assistant (1962) producer (1965) and executive producer (1967–1968) for KYW-TV,[5] for a then-locally produced talk-variety show, The Mike Douglas Show. He later became executive producer for the show, which was syndicated nationally. He was nominated for, but failed to win a Daytime Emmy Awards for it in 1968.[6] It was in this position, in 1967, that he had a spirited discussion about television in politics with one of the show's guests, Richard Nixon, who took the view that television was a gimmick. Later, Nixon called on Ailes to serve as his executive producer of TV. Nixon's election victory was only Ailes's first venture into the political spotlight. His pioneering work in framing national campaign issues and making the stiff Nixon more likeable and accessible to voters was chronicled in The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss." (from Wiki)
How can anyone possibly believe that Ailes' goal is really "Fair and Balanced" news? How can anyone not grasp why Ailes was picked by Murdoch to found Fox "News"?
The author of this post still believes that Homo Sapiens is composed of genetically different "races", and ran away from a thread after being conclusively proven wrong. I have zero respect for anyone who cannot be honest enough to even admit that he/she might possibly be wrong. The thread topic isn't the blatant insane horseshit that the Arctic Owl thread was, I'll grant that much, but I note who fell for that tripe.
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