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| There's an election coming up; Not that you'd know it from watching the networks | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 22 2014, 04:32 PM (678 Views) | |
| George K | Oct 23 2014, 07:17 AM Post #26 |
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I get that. The point that I'm trying to make - obviously unsuccessfully - which Jolly reiterates, is that BROADCAST news is ignoring the mid-term elections this year. In 2006 they did not. Twenty three million people get their news from those three sources. By contrast, about 5.5 million get their news from ALL cable news networks: source. If it's not on the news, it doesn't exist. THAT's the point. Why is that so hard? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 07:24 AM Post #27 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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It's not hard, but it's a mighty blunt point to be wielding around. 23 million people is about 7% of the U.S. population. 5.5 million is about one and a half. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 07:37 AM Post #28 |
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Not from what I see. Broadcast news shows like Face the Nation and Meet the Press get about twice as many viewers as Fox News Sunday. Their numbers are higher, but they don't exactly dwarf the conservative competition. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| George K | Oct 23 2014, 07:41 AM Post #29 |
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Now who's cherry picking? Only Sunday shows? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 07:55 AM Post #30 |
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You're right, those numbers are seriously misleading. Some better ones showing total viewership:
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| JBryan | Oct 23 2014, 08:11 AM Post #31 |
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Whoa! If you take everyone else in America off that graph the difference between Fox and the other three would look a lot greater not being scaled to everyone else in America. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| George K | Oct 23 2014, 08:11 AM Post #32 |
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Thanks for pointing out that Fox is insignificant.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 08:33 AM Post #33 |
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But who gives a crap because nobody watches broadcast television, and of that pool of nobody, Fox News gets about a third of the total viewership. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 08:33 AM Post #34 |
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No problem. Neither is broadcast news. |
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| George K | Oct 23 2014, 08:37 AM Post #35 |
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My local Fox station (WFLD) does news once a day - at 9PM. Otherwise they're filled with carp like TMZ and Dr. Oz. If you're going to make comparisons among stations, try to stick to like stations: Broadcast to Broadcast, Cable to Cable. Fox has no significant broadcast presence in Chicago, at least as far as news goes. Broadcast news out paces cable news by a factor of about 4 to 1. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 09:01 AM Post #36 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Why this obsession with comparing the stations, George? I'm being serious: what do you really think these numbers are saying? Are you suggesting the sneaky liberals are trying to pull a fast one by not covering the elections? How does this actually look inside the editorial meetings? "Dave, I want your reporters to not cover the midterm elections." "Is it because nobody gives a crap* about Congress right now?" "No, it's either because we don't like conservatives or we don't want seven percent of America's population to know whether or not the conservatives have a shot." * ![]() What's the thesis here? Why do you think they're not covering the elections and more to the point, why does it matter at all? |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Jolly | Oct 23 2014, 09:09 AM Post #37 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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They are not covering the election because they know midterms favor the party not in the Whitehouse. The more attention drawn to the elections, the better chance that more Americans will vote. And we don't want that, now do we? |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| George K | Oct 23 2014, 09:13 AM Post #38 |
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First of all, comparing the stations began with the idea that there was "cherry picking" going on. I'm not the one who brought it up. Let's stick to one station: ABC. Secondly, no, I don't think there's a nefarious conspiracy going on in the editorial meetings. It's more subtle than that. It's the Pauline Kael mentality. Again, I'm looking for a simple explanation why ABC covered the midterms in 2006 with over 35 stories, and the 2014 elections with none. Not one. Can you explain that? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 09:22 AM Post #39 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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So your belief is that (1) there's a liberal media cabal, (2) everyone working in liberal media wants to influence U.S. elections, (3) nobody over there can see that they don't have the power to do so because again, for the third time now, total broadcast news viewership constitutes seven percent of the U.S. population, and so the reporters, the news editors, the show producers, the researchers and the executives are all not covering the November elections because they don't want Americans to vote. See this is why this place gives me high blood pressure. Instead of Jodi's paintings and dol's work at her school we're left with banning Muslims and the liberal media conspiracy to keep people from voting. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 09:25 AM Post #40 |
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I can only explain so many times why it doesn't matter, at all, for anyone. And because of that I don't much care if ABC starts setting elephants on fire in their executive offices. |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 23 2014, 09:26 AM Post #41 |
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MAMIL
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I had no idea there was a difference. I grew up in a country with no cable, and 4 pretty decent TV channels. I came here, 100 channels of sh!t interspersed with advertisements. TV is TV as far as I'm concerned. Last time I visited, the UK had about 30 channels on free-to-view. Most of them were sh!t, so they're clearly catching up. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 23 2014, 09:31 AM Post #42 |
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Edit - sorry, I messed up |
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| George K | Oct 23 2014, 09:31 AM Post #43 |
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My blood pressure is fine. I take Altace! |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 23 2014, 09:52 AM Post #44 |
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Some common side effects of Altace are headache, cough, dizziness, malaise, and vomiting, and stomach discomfort. Altace apparently has a lot in common with TNCR. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 23 2014, 09:54 AM Post #45 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Aye...it's a bitter pill to swallow...
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 09:54 AM Post #46 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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![]() I'd ask you to hook me up wit somma dat, but I understand there are laws about that sort of thing. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Jolly | Oct 23 2014, 11:04 AM Post #47 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I believe most of the MSM on the East Coast has a decidedly liberal bent. Now, whether that is due to them being journalism majors and suffering a life-long feeling of envy against other professions that actually make money for the majority of their practitioners, thereby causing some unknown well-spring of socialism, or it's simply a function of geography and the rule of idiotic senior editors, I don't know. Or maybe it's just a bad case of GLWS (Grey Lady Wannabe Syndrome). Regardless, res ipsa loquitur. Anybody with half of a functioning brain can tell the three major broadcast news divisions favor the Left in this country as opposed to their opposition. These may be acts of omission or commission, but they are acts, nonetheless. The bias is easily proven and has been done so many times. The only question left is whether that bias is conscious or unconscious. I believe it is conscious, but that is almost impossible to prove. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 23 2014, 11:24 AM Post #48 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Do you think it's envy against other professions that causes the liberal journalists to rig the U.S. elections or is it the Grey Lady Wannabe Syndrome?
Ab irato. |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 23 2014, 12:00 PM Post #49 |
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MAMIL
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When liberals are dirt poor, they're described as ignorant uneducated money-grubbing spongers. When liberals are well-educated, they're described as envious pseudo-intellectuals, educated beyond their intelligence. When liberals are rich, they're branded as elitist snobs who are in a dastardly cabal intent on bringing down real America Make up your mind, Real America!
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| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Improviso | Oct 23 2014, 12:08 PM Post #50 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Uh huh... yep... Pretty well sums it up, I'd say.
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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