... contrary to the not-so-popular belief of certain liberal readers and commentators, is not just for the kool-aid drinking, rabid, right.

Quote:Fox News Scorching Rivals

Looking for a fitting historical analogy to describe the current "cable wars?" Try the firebombing of Dresden.

Fox News has been dominating its competitors now for some time, but the latest round of Abritron ratings shows FNC absolutely scorching rivals CNN and MSNBC.

...

As you can see, every show in the top ten is from Fox News, as are 13 out of the top 15. In fact, only one of Fox News' fourteen programs is ranked below #15 in the ratings. That show is Red Eye, which airs from 3-4am - and it still pulls in more viewers than MSNBC's Morning Joe.

The personal battle between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann is no contest. Even O'Reilly's repeat show at 11pm pulls in 52% more viewers than Olberman's prime time show.

The war among morning shows - though not as high profile as it is on the Big Three - is also a joke. If you combine the household audience numbers from CNN's American Morning and MSNBC's Morning Joe, they still fall 23% below the number of households tuning in to watch Fox and Friends.

Overall, Fox News generates nearly twice as many viewers each day as CNN and MSNBC put together. If this were in fact a war, the white flag would be running up the pole as we speak.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/...ng-rivals/

Fox rocks, and is by a wide margin much more entertaining than the competition. Great personalities dominate their lineup.

(10-02-2009 11:32 AM)gruehls Wrote:  ... contrary to the not-so-popular belief of certain liberal readers and commentators, is not just for the kool-aid drinking, rabid, right.

Quote:Fox News Scorching Rivals

Looking for a fitting historical analogy to describe the current "cable wars?" Try the firebombing of Dresden.

Fox News has been dominating its competitors now for some time, but the latest round of Abritron ratings shows FNC absolutely scorching rivals CNN and MSNBC.

...

As you can see, every show in the top ten is from Fox News, as are 13 out of the top 15. In fact, only one of Fox News' fourteen programs is ranked below #15 in the ratings. That show is Red Eye, which airs from 3-4am - and it still pulls in more viewers than MSNBC's Morning Joe.

The personal battle between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann is no contest. Even O'Reilly's repeat show at 11pm pulls in 52% more viewers than Olberman's prime time show.

The war among morning shows - though not as high profile as it is on the Big Three - is also a joke. If you combine the household audience numbers from CNN's American Morning and MSNBC's Morning Joe, they still fall 23% below the number of households tuning in to watch Fox and Friends.

Overall, Fox News generates nearly twice as many viewers each day as CNN and MSNBC put together. If this were in fact a war, the white flag would be running up the pole as we speak.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/...ng-rivals/

Darnit Gruehls! You're ruining their theory! Everything is Foxnews' fault and its only for a small minority of right wing nuts! I'm waiting for "its Foxnews' fault, Chicago didn't get the olympics."

i despise olberman, so i read this part with particular delight:

Quote:The personal battle between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann is no contest. Even O'Reilly's repeat show at 11pm pulls in 52% more viewers than Olberman's prime time show.

dang! he can't even beat o'reilly's reruns.

keep clinging to your bibles and guns

(10-02-2009 01:36 PM)Crewdogz Wrote:  keep clinging to your bibles and guns

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(10-02-2009 01:40 PM)ctipton Wrote:  

(10-02-2009 01:36 PM)Crewdogz Wrote:  keep clinging to your bibles and guns

???

Perhaps you have forgotten:

Quote:Barack Obama was forced onto the defensive at the weekend over unguarded comments he made about small-town voters across the midwest.

Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

The comments were seized on by his rival for the Democratic party candidacy, Hillary Clinton, who saw in them the hope of reviving her flagging campaign by turning voters in the important Pennsylvania primary on April 22 against what she classed as Obama's revealed "elitism".

I'm equating Foxnews watchers as the crowd/people the President ridiculed during a gaffe on the campaign trail.

(10-02-2009 02:02 PM)Crewdogz Wrote:  

(10-02-2009 01:40 PM)ctipton Wrote:  

(10-02-2009 01:36 PM)Crewdogz Wrote:  keep clinging to your bibles and guns

???

Perhaps you have forgotten:

Quote:Barack Obama was forced onto the defensive at the weekend over unguarded comments he made about small-town voters across the midwest.

Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

The comments were seized on by his rival for the Democratic party candidacy, Hillary Clinton, who saw in them the hope of reviving her flagging campaign by turning voters in the important Pennsylvania primary on April 22 against what she classed as Obama's revealed "elitism".

I'm equating Foxnews watchers as the crowd/people the President ridiculed during a gaffe on the campaign trail.

Gotcha!! I had forgotten.