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 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | reply to pnh102
Re: Too bad said by pnh102:If you really want to play that angle, you need to consider this. FOX News routinely clobbers its competition in the news business. Because they get the most viewers, they become the ideological basis by which other news outlets are judged. If they have the majority of viewers, then by definition they are not some radical fringe media outlet. Hmm... Interesting supposition, but, "not quite".
Your supposition presumes that the news watching public is some constant. That's not really a good assumption. When you have a "product" (it is a business, after all, and it's shaped to provide income rather than "truth") that a specific demographic likes, that demographic will flock to it. That, however, does not mean that the particular demographic in question is representative of a population as a whole.
On the whole, the consuming masses are, for lack of a more elegant term, "stupid" (if they weren't "stupid", the borrowing practices that contributed to the current economic downturn would not have been present). Fox is simply the most effective at catering to that stupidity. The overall commercialized nature of (particularly televised) news has turned most of it into worthless drivel. For people that actually care about what it is they watch or read, news as a business is repellent. Those people increasing drop out of consuming that product and seek their news, elsewhere. So, what you have left is the dregs of the news as a business consumers.
Congratulations: Fox appeals greatly to the dregs.
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by nixen:Hmm... Interesting supposition, but, "not quite". Not quite, but still irrefutably true. The fact, as posted by another user, that FOX is an order of magnitude ahead of their nearest competitor shows that it is those competitors who are the "wacky outliers" and that FOX News is, by logical conclusion, mainstream.
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nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
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Alexandria, VA | said by pnh102:said by nixen:Hmm... Interesting supposition, but, "not quite". Not quite, but still irrefutably true. The fact, as posted by another user, that FOX is an order of magnitude ahead of their nearest competitor shows that it is those competitors who are the "wacky outliers" and that FOX News is, by logical conclusion, mainstream. Again: "not quite". Being "mainstream" within a fringe group doesn't make you "mainstream".
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said by pnh102:said by nixen:Hmm... Interesting supposition, but, "not quite". Not quite, but still irrefutably true. The fact, as posted by another user, that FOX is an order of magnitude ahead of their nearest competitor shows that it is those competitors who are the "wacky outliers" and that FOX News is, by logical conclusion, mainstream. Spin baby spin. He showed that Fox has about half the market in cable news. You and yours typically lump all the rest into one group, so it's pretty hypocritical to try and split that half into "wacky outliers" now. He also show network news blowing away cable news by "an order of magnitude".
Btw, do you even know what an order of magnitude means? | |
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