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Will Fox News, Limbaugh, the Washington Examiner, Breitbart, etc. ever be trusted by conservatives again? Here are a few snippets from Breitbart on election night:
Well I guess a lot more get their daily jollies than you realize, being FOX is the most watched network, by 2 o 3 to one of any major one. Most Americans must enjoy being entertained....
Will Fox News, Limbaugh, the Washington Examiner, Breitbart, etc. ever be trusted by conservatives again? Here are a few snippets from Breitbart on election night:
They'll just keep grinding the same ole crap over and over again, they never learn.
You only need to read the crap those right wing loonies constantly posts even after the election. It's the same ole $h!t..
Screw Obama, screw Obama, impeach Obama, impeach Obama.. The next 4 yrs will be about anti Obama and when his term is up, they'll still be hung up over Obama and then we have Hilary as president.
Will this election make conservatives question their media outlets?
You'd certainly be right to think that after the total con job rightwing media perpetrated on its viewers and listeners by totally fabricating and bs'ing much in the lead up to the election then having the audacity to call "Romney in a landslide" that many righties would now at least question the validity of anything these media sources put out as stories and claims, but it seems instead of exhibiting some skepticism from the righties, these righties are now inexplicably buying into all the lame bs and fabricated excuses these rightwing media sources are now throwing out there to justify the republican loss,
I guess for righties if it walks like a duck,sounds like a duck,looks like a duck, it must be a cow..
Well I guess a lot more get their daily jollies than you realize, being FOX is the most watched network, by 2 o 3 to one of any major one. Most Americans must enjoy being entertained....
70% of Americans can't even name the 3 branches of our government, and you're shocked many of them like being entertained by Fox News? Americans are not, as a whole, an intelligent demographic.
70% of Americans can't even name the 3 branches of our government, and you're shocked many of them like being entertained by Fox News? Americans are not, as a whole, an intelligent demographic.
and all 70% I assume are Republicans, is that what people think? But you are right, why is this? Kids do not get much education about govenment and geography anymore. Here is an example: our granddaughter who has 2 bach degrees and will be a nurse practioner in less than a year, obviously is very bright and didn't know that Baja Ca was not part of the USA. BTW she graduated from high school in the top 25 of a class of over 700 and this was not a nothing high school. It was one of the best in Texas..
None of this means the average TV viewer will lose faith in conservative media, anymore than some will lose faith in the liberal media..
I doubt it. People tend not to take the news that their way of thinking is wrong very well. Usually it causes them to double down on their "wrong side of history" mentality.
And if Obama had lost (and he very well could have), one could be asking if the credibility of liberal media (MSNBC?) was forever damaged. They do the same thing.
it's too soon to tell just how much this defeat will eventually sink in and come to sway conservative minds. For some of their opinion makers, it may be more obvious, as the free market may kill some of them, the guys like Rush, or Rush himself, off.
one of the biggest social changes I noticed this year was advertiser's increasing awareness that intense one-sided talk radio shows can directly impact their business when the host goes too far too often. This is especially true in radio, which lives and dies on advertising fees or the lack of them.
I expect some of the rabid talk to moderate with some of the hosts, but others have too much ego and image invested to ever change. I don't expect to see any big drama happening when some disappear; they will simply go on vacation or something, and be replaced by permanent hosts who were supposedly temporary. In time, the names of the shows will change. It won't be like the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson decided to hang it up.
Their fall can be very sudden. A perfect example is Walter Winchell. Winchell was once the most popular radio personality on the air for 20 years. He started out as a gossip columnist. His announcing style was very arresting and full of catchy slang he made up.
But he became a big Joe McCarthy fan during the Communist with hunt of the early 50's, and his broadcasts became all right wing nutcase political. When McCarthy finally fell and was disgraced, so went Winchell. His radio show dropped from #1 to off the air in less than a year. He ended up doing a clumsy song and dance routine in Vegas when Vegas wasn't so cool, and died unnoticed a few years later.
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