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2010-01-22 Home Front: Politix
The Fox Juggernaut: Why It's No. 1
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Posted by Fred 2010-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 And don't forget the Fox News Babes are hot!
Posted by Glenmore 2010-01-22 00:56||   2010-01-22 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 The lefties still don't get it. Fox kills the competition because it is the sole cable news occupant of any position on the political spectrum to the right of center-left in a country whose population self-identifies as conservative at double the rate it self-identifies as liberal. While Fox's competitors compete with each other for the same viewers, Fox stands alone as the sole choice for those right of center.

The only thing surprising about the success of Fox News is that they don't (yet) total double the combined viewership of all of their competitors.
Posted by AzCat 2010-01-22 01:36||   2010-01-22 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "tea baggers" -- Bob Beckel used the term on Fox just the day before Brown beat Marsha Martha Coakley.

Bob Beckel....? Who is Bob Beckel. Never heard of him. Never wish to hear of him again.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-22 05:03||   2010-01-22 05:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "Fox's millions of viewers -- those little people in nowhere towns and backwater cities who don't read books or watch "Mad Men" -- are ridiculed and caricatured as dumb and dumber. They are the hollering, red-faced crowds in the rowdy protests at town hall meetings last August. They are the social and political throwbacks of the Tea Party movement. They are the unfashionable, middle-America, small-town folks who queue up for hours to get a glimpse of their action hero, Sarah Palin."

That would describe perhaps 5% of Fox News viewers. The other 95% are people who've grown tired of the low-quality "news" offered by the other broadcast and cable networks and prefer reporting that doesn't read like propaganda churned out by the Democratic National Committee or some liberal, Nanny State think-tank funded by George Soros.

If this dimwitted bint really wants to understand why Fox News is #1, she only has to look at why Air America just went Tango Uniform, and notice the strong ideological and stylistic resemblance between AA and the rest of her favored, "progressive" news outfits.

Americans are getting fed up with that shit.

Posted by Dave D.  2010-01-22 05:59||   2010-01-22 05:59|| Front Page Top

#5 viewers=advertisers=money

Why hasn't anyone else tried to become more like Fox?

I really enjoy watching Beck. I just wish he was on later than 5pm.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-01-22 06:03||   2010-01-22 06:03|| Front Page Top

#6 News Babes

"Fox" News









They even have a DGS



MSLSD

If she moved in next door your lawn would die!


Honorable Mention from the Bankrupt Print Media

Could make a buzzard puke
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-01-22 06:18||   2010-01-22 06:18|| Front Page Top

#7 BrerRabbit

He's on again at 2am EST
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-01-22 06:22||   2010-01-22 06:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Perhaps if Washington and the liberal media had paid more attention and listened to the rising political winds, the Democrats would not have lost Massachusetts and with it, perhaps health care reform.

That's as close as she comes to 'getting it'. If only they'd listened, they could've trampled the 65% of Americans who don't want their health care modified.

Fortunately for "us", "they" will never get it.
Posted by Bobby 2010-01-22 06:26||   2010-01-22 06:26|| Front Page Top

#9 For those who do not believe in God, yes, it was just a coincidence that an evil, drunken, SOB happened to die and provide an opportunity for right to prevail.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-22 07:04||   2010-01-22 07:04|| Front Page Top

#10 ...seem in varying degrees more in touch with centrist-to-conservative America, which is, like it or not, the heart of the country.

Which is the key admission that the liberal-left does not represent the heart of the country. That their goal is not the classical definition of a democracy or republic. Rather, their goal is to rule through a facade of one while disenfranchising the real majority. All, of course, in the name of 'social justice' [ie the socialist peoples' democratic form of government - Marxism].
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-22 07:27||   2010-01-22 07:27|| Front Page Top

#11 The writer is a former assistant national editor at the NY Times. That means she's heard of flyover country, may even be able to find it on a map, but certainly wouldn't be caught dead there (because, after all, there may be only one store in the whole state that sells Manolo Blahniks.)

BTW, Luisita, more Democrats watch Fox than watch MSNBC. Really. Kinda like more liberals listen to Rush than listened to your beloved late Air America.
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-22 07:31||   2010-01-22 07:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Besoeker ,

When all the other authoritarian politicians suddenly die of natural causes on the same day I'll believe in God.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-01-22 08:46||   2010-01-22 08:46|| Front Page Top

#13 This really is a serious article? What a elitist, condescending piece of crap.

This is what passes for Journalism these days? No wonder the NYT is circling the drain.

And she still doesn't get it. Fox News is top because they report opposing views.

And they actually report the news (such as ACORN) while the others hide the news in reams of opinion - if they report it at all. Beck and Hannity don't try to wrap themselves up as 'journalists' while Chris and Olberman do.

And the reason the MSNBC/CNN/etc... 'anchors' are doing so bad is that, lacking any logical argument, they resort to name calling (Teabaggers). People find that dishonest and, frankly, disgusting.
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-01-22 08:49||   2010-01-22 08:49|| Front Page Top

#14 When all the other authoritarian politicians suddenly die of natural causes on the same day I'll believe in God. Posted by Bright Pebbles

You've establishes some tight parameters. Just make certain you don't die first and miss the happy event.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-22 09:01||   2010-01-22 09:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Further proof that the journo-class should use foreign correspondents when reporting on locations outside of "the blessedly enlightened Washington-New York-Boston corridor".
Posted by eLarson 2010-01-22 09:08||   2010-01-22 09:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Go to the link and you'll find out why Luisita works for the NYT and not Fox.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-22 09:43||   2010-01-22 09:43|| Front Page Top

#17 Bright Pebbles, I suspect most Christians believe life is a test to determine if you are qualified to go to heaven. An easy test would be worthless. A test of faith that had to overcome war, death, disease, authoritarian dictators, Marxists and filthy hippies might be a bit too hard for most but it certainly is a test.
Posted by rjschwarz 2010-01-22 09:58||   2010-01-22 09:58|| Front Page Top

#18 Since I do not want to drag this thread too far from the original topic, I will confine myself to three sentences:

RjSchwarz, Christians do not believe that life is one big test to see if we qualify. Christians know that everyone sins and nobody qualifies, so the sinless Son of God, Jesus Christ, accepted the punishment for sin on our behalf. Our response to his gift is to accept it, live lives of gratitude to God and to share God's grace and mercy with others as it has been extended to us.
Posted by mom  2010-01-22 10:16||   2010-01-22 10:16|| Front Page Top

#19 Yes, all of the above and a 'test' as well. Some days I gets an C- some days an F.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-22 10:24||   2010-01-22 10:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Ok then…lets sum it up shall we? The reason Fox has better ratings is not because it provides a higher quality product. No Sir! It’s because, compared to the limited population of the “blessedly enlightened educated class” there are simply more dimwitted rubes to be manipulated. This all makes perfect sense – in a pompous Progressive elitist sort of way.
Posted by DepotGuy 2010-01-22 11:23||   2010-01-22 11:23|| Front Page Top

#21 ... the blessedly enlightened Washington-New York-Boston corridor ...

Ah yes. So "blessedly enlightened" that two of my kids (both extremely bright), have vowed to get as far away from Mass as they can as soon as they can. They simply can't stand the smug, patronizing, smarter-and-holier-than-thou attitude of so many of the people here. I can't blame them one bit, though I'll miss them (and their votes).
Posted by xbalanke 2010-01-22 11:43||   2010-01-22 11:43|| Front Page Top

#22 If life is a "test", I hope God remembers I'm only a "C" student at best.
Posted by WolfDog 2010-01-22 11:45||   2010-01-22 11:45|| Front Page Top

#23 Don't worry, God grades on a curve as long as you ask for forgiveness genuinely.
Posted by Beldar Threreling9726 2010-01-22 13:11||   2010-01-22 13:11|| Front Page Top

#24 I read the Burg everyday for extra points and credit.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-22 13:13||   2010-01-22 13:13|| Front Page Top

#25 Thanks Fred. The posting gave me a good laugh. The lefts' view of Fox is too funny. They really don't get it.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-01-22 13:30||   2010-01-22 13:30|| Front Page Top

#26 Most of us who live in the blessedly enlightened Washington-New York-Boston corridor.....

No, not biased, not one little bit, why do you ask?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-22 13:36||   2010-01-22 13:36|| Front Page Top

#27 I'd like to hear her smart set opinion on Savage but chances are she'd have an aneurysm in the middle of it and die...
Posted by tu3031 2010-01-22 13:47||   2010-01-22 13:47|| Front Page Top

#28 those little people in nowhere towns and backwater cities who don't read books

Why do city people always talk like this? I live in one of the most rural places in Nevada and let me tell you: many of us don't do anything but read. What are we supposed to do - go to the opera?:
Posted by Secret Master 2010-01-22 14:32||   2010-01-22 14:32|| Front Page Top

#29 And ANOTHER thing, as long as I'm just starting to get really angry: why do city dwellers always act like their particular urban abyss is the center of the Universe? It's not the center of my universe! I don't even like going to Reno to resupply my ranch!

"Blessedly enlightened Washington-New York-Boston corridor?" Lady, I don't even lock the doors when I go on vacation. How about you?
Posted by Secret Master 2010-01-22 14:36||   2010-01-22 14:36|| Front Page Top

#30 Our journalist needs to drill down into the statistics a bit. At which point she'll find that not all Fox viewers are unlettered rednecks from Podunk Village, TS (The Swamp). An awful lot of them are like one of my fellow PTA moms: a retired hotshot engineer married to a corporate executive who lectures at Harvard in his spare time. She has two (2!) daughters who are National Merit Scholars as well as being nationally ranked classical musicians and state ranked athletes. My girlfriend watches Fox News precisely because, as Fred writes, their news comports more closely to reality... and of course, she has enough science and statistics background to know when ignorant journalists are purveying partial or total untruths.

In fact, it would be interesting to look into the strength of the correlation between science/statistics/history knowledge and choice of news source... not to mention political identification. It wouldn't surprise me if the Democratic Party had morphed from the party of the labour unions to the Know Nothing Party while we weren't looking.
Posted by trailing wife  2010-01-22 14:41||   2010-01-22 14:41|| Front Page Top

#31 AND ANOTHER THING! "They are the unfashionable, middle-America, small-town folks who queue up for hours to get a glimpse of their action hero, Sarah Palin."

Action hero? What they hell is that? Listen: who am I supposed to relate too as a rural American?

Obama: a narcissistic, urbane, anti-Second Amendment yuppie who supports the idea that newborn children with Down's syndrome should be subjected to something called "post-birth abortion."

Palin: a gun-loving rural woman who has a child with Down's syndrome?

(Full Disclosure: I have a child with Down's syndrome.)
Posted by Secret Master 2010-01-22 14:43||   2010-01-22 14:43|| Front Page Top

#32 It is instructive to read this

To summarize it the night of the Massachusets thunderclap MSNBC had only liberal guests and one of the anchors (the guy who is suspoosed to be reporting and let us decide) ended sepcualting about how "we" aka the Democrats could bounce again to success.

By contrast Fox news had a balanced plateau with both liberals and conservatives. So this arrogant and stupid lowlife "balanced" is being 100% liberal and have the peasants obey their betters that is not rocketscientists but the people who graduated in a such third trate discuipline as journalism.
Posted by JFM  2010-01-22 14:52||   2010-01-22 14:52|| Front Page Top

#33 Once upon a time, JFM, reporting was considered a skilled trade for those who had an innate grasp of grammar and no business sense, in the same class as plumbing if a tad less damp or financially stable. Dear Mr. Samuel Clemens perfectly epitomized the breed, as he wrote his way round the world to pay off debts resulting from unsuccessful business speculations.

Separately, one has to love the journalist's headshot at the link. She is clearly so intrinsically fashionable she chooses to look like an absolute frump in utterly conventional New York City all-black, little changed since the reign of dear Queen Victoria. If only she had the cheekbones to justify the rusty widow's weeds, but alas!
Posted by trailing wife  2010-01-22 15:10||   2010-01-22 15:10|| Front Page Top

#34 I read this less literally than some of you seem to have. The author's tongue is firmly planted in her cheek, caricaturing her bi-coastal readers' prejudice with her outlandish characterization of those in flyover country. But she still couldn't get a job at Fox.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-22 15:23||   2010-01-22 15:23|| Front Page Top

#35 In the comment with the pictures, who is the effeminate man in the Pant Suit wearing the Birth Control Glasses®?
Posted by Ebbese Darling of the Hatfields2588 2010-01-22 19:37||   2010-01-22 19:37|| Front Page Top

#36 She was serious? I thought it was satire.
Posted by Deacon Blues  2010-01-22 20:13||   2010-01-22 20:13|| Front Page Top

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