mark
9/1/2010 12:32:00 AM
On Aug 31, 1:57 pm, O <ow...@denofinequityx.com> wrote:
> > Much of that is due to "Fox News," which manufactures footage and makes
> > up a story that matches what the conservatives want to believe. Surveys
> > and polls show that these viewers have widely mistaken beliefs about
> > current events. They claim not to editorialize in their actual news, but
> > since I've started exercising at the YMCA, I've had plenty of chance to
> > observe that they make everything fit the narrative they want to push.
>
> MSNBC is their less-watched counterpart.
That's no indication of quality, but it is a clear indication that
conservatives watch Faux en masse, while Ds and Is split their viewing
time watching the legit cable networks like CNN & MSNBC, as well as
network news. As long as you're the media arm of a political party -
as Faux News is for the Rs - you're going to have an inroad into 25%
of the public that will watch only your "news" as it confirms all of
their fears, fantasies and prejudices.
When it comes to the big nightly news b'casts, no cable news channel
pulls anywhere near where the 3 big network channels pull. Faux News
pulls an average of 2.8 million viewers a night. Compare that to NBC,
which draws 7.2-million, CBS which draws 4.8 million and ABC which
draws 6.5 million (MSNBC and CNBC are subsidiaries of NBC, which add
about 1-million viewers to their daily totals).
Do the math, and you see that Faux draws just under 3-million viewers
a night in its nightly news slot while the other networks combined
draw about 20-million viewers a night. That means that only 12% of
viewers get their nightly news from Faux.
And, Faux has the OLDEST viewers of any of the cable or network news
channels.
Source for all the above is Nielsen.
Wake me when the Faux News revolution gets started...