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It only has low ratings because most people in America are clueless on most topics. I'm not saying some MSNBC viewers are uninformed, but to make it seem like Fox is more credible because more people watch it is just pure lunacy. PBS has low ratings. Does that mean PBS isn't a credible news network? CSPAN barely gets any ratings, yet it's only congressional hearings.
The fact is that Fox only has more ratingsb because most Americans are entertained by dogma. Hence, why CNN doesn't pull ratings like MSNBC and Fox.
Fox has higher ratings for a simple reason - all the right wingers flock there. If you watch five minutes and roll your eyes, you might flip to MSNBC, CNN or any of the network news stations. So they are sharing the non-right winger audience while Fox gets pretty much the total right winger audience. Fox viewers also skew much older as most conservatives do and older viewers tend to get their news from television (and tend to just leave it on all day) whereas younger viewers get information from a variety of sources.
Pretty much sums it up.
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Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC
Two Words: Al Sharpton
Who can give credibility to a station that has devolved into that?
Spoken like a Fox News Viewer living in Wasilla, Alaska. Truly laughable. Tell Sarah Palin hello for us.
Actually, I cancelled my satellite TV subscription in August 2006. I watch only DVDs these days. My primary news source has come from Thousands of newspapers on the Net since the 1990s.
It is my understanding that Sarah Palin is wintering in Arizona these days, but the next time I see her I will be certain to mention your irrational obsession with her.
It only has low ratings because most people in America are clueless on most topics. I'm not saying some MSNBC viewers are uninformed, but to make it seem like Fox is more credible because more people watch it is just pure lunacy. PBS has low ratings. Does that mean PBS isn't a credible news network? CSPAN barely gets any ratings, yet it's only congressional hearings.
The fact is that Fox only has more ratingsb because most Americans are entertained by dogma. Hence, why CNN doesn't pull ratings like MSNBC and Fox.
Maybe the low ratings are delegitimizing MSNBC all by themselves? Maybe your just pissy because you watch MSNBC and you think the low ratings are, in essence, delegitimizing your views as well?
Maybe, just maybe, the people are not as shallow as you think. I think people read or hear about a news story, and turn on the TV because they are looking for the facts, and MSNBC does not give them any.
There is a cause and effect for everything, a message and a messenger, a decision with risks and consequences. Too many times with MSNBC, we get an effect without a cause, a messenger w/o a message or a decision without risks or consequences. People are not stupid, so when they are only getting one side of the news stories, they know there is something behind the curtain, when they only get a sanitized, politically partisan, filtration of the news, so they switch off MSNBC.
For example, and this happens all the freaking time, MSNBC reports that the republicans did not vote for bill X. We never hear why they voted the way they did. We never hear about what was in the bill that would cause them to vote it down. All we hear is hour after hour, with guest after guest, beating up republicans cuz they are just mean and evil. MSNBC can only play the card, just so many times, claiming republicans want to take away grandma's Medicare and Social Security, before people see how dog-eared and phony it is.
Spoken like a true leftist, following the MSM talking points....
Proudly so. Hey, I don't expect Fox "News" viewers to admit their information comes from questionable sources. It's an older, white conservative audience that leaves their TV on all day. Fox scares them and leaves them quivering in their living rooms so they think they need to "take back!" their country. The irony that they hate the government while collecting their SS checks never gets old.
Maybe the low ratings are delegitimizing MSNBC all by themselves? Maybe your just pissy because you watch MSNBC and you think the low ratings are, in essence, delegitimizing your views as well?
Maybe, just maybe, the people are not as shallow as you think. I think people read or hear about a news story, and turn on the TV because they are looking for the facts, and MSNBC does not give them any.
And once again, this is why Fox News viewers are the least informed.
Actually, I cancelled my satellite TV subscription in August 2006. I watch only DVDs these days. My primary news source has come from Thousands of newspapers on the Net since the 1990s.
It is my understanding that Sarah Palin is wintering in Arizona these days, but the next time I see her I will be certain to mention your irrational obsession with her.
You just shattered that libs reality. <sniff>
You just had to fit his stereotype of a Faux News fanatic, a Sarah Palin drone, otherwise how could you possibly disagree with him??
Typically if MSNBC is reporting on Fox, they are making fun of it. Jon Stewart reports on Fox too but they are openly laughing then.
And they provide non stop 24/8 advertisement for Fox.. If I wanted to see what Fox was reporting, I'd watch Fox.. I dont need some 3rd party to tell me how to think about them..
The fact that they are "reporting" on Fox, indicates how worthless they really are.
Thats already been not only proven wrong, but an outright lie. Dont worry, the irony of people calling others less informed, and you not knowing this, isnt lost.
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Truly laughable. Tell Sarah Palin hello for us.
Maybe, because it has lower ratings than fox?
