Fox News overtakes CNN

[Chris Blount]

According to the following article, Fox News has overtaken CNN as the most-watched 24-news cable outlet.

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BA5DDC661-440C-4DA6-8BEA-76252031D773%7D&siteid=google&dist=google

[SamC]

This will degnerate into a name calling fest about which outlet is biased, but before it does, let us appreciate the pure genius, from a business standport, of Mr. Murdoch.

First, lets all remember that CNN has 99% household penetration, and FNC only about 80%, which makes this victory even more huge, and more ominious for CNN in the multi-channel future.

Now, in the beginning was CBS, and it was liberal. NBC, echo. ABC, echo. 90 out of 100 major daily newspapers, echoes. PBS, echo. NPR, echo. Major newsmagazines, especially after Watergate, echoes. CNN, echo. MSNBC and CNBC, echoes.

And here come little Fox. The fourth network. The network of Bart Simpson and little else. The UHF network, run by this mad Australian.

Launched FNC. NOT an echo. A voice. Argue how you will about the %age numbers, but FNC gets 100% of the conservatives, while the liberal market is clearly split 60 ways.

That market, call it the "silent majority", the "forgotten American", "Red America", or whatever, has been there, for the picking for 40 years. The corporate predecessors to the multi-media either were too blind or to arrogant to cash in on it.

Congratulations to FNC, the cable success story of the last 10 years.

[BFG]

I think dish may be anti fox since it has its hands in DirecTV. About every cable co has F/X and FNC in their basic lineup yet dish doesn't include them in the AT60.

[HappyGoLucky]

Now, in the beginning was CBS, and it was liberal. NBC, echo. ABC, echo. 90 out of 100 major daily newspapers, echoes. PBS, echo. NPR, echo. Major newsmagazines, especially after Watergate, echoes. CNN, echo. MSNBC and CNBC, echoes.


Actually, all the networks and magazines and net sites you mention are not really "liberal". But because they dare to speak or write anything that the right-wingers don't like they are deemed biased. Right-wingers don't respect or accept anything but their own extreme viewpoints, and Foxnews caters to that mindset. "Fair and balanced" is only an empty marketing phrase at Foxnews.

Also, unlike rabid right-wingers, most moderates and liberals enjoy hearing and reading "the other side" in order to better understand them and counter them, thus we watch Foxnews to gain a better insight to the twisted logic expressed therein. Right-wingers, on the other hand, have an aversion to hearing anything they don't like and will avoid it at all costs, including shouting overtop of it to drown it out. While successful in the short term, that tactic will prove to be their downfall eventually.

[DmitriA]

Why is this news? Fox has consistently beaten CNN in the ratings war since at least 2000

[MikeSoltis]

This will degnerate into a name calling fest
Well before it does even that, can we at least agree that the only way to actually get 'fair and balanced' news coverage is to not limit yourself to a single news source. You should probably rely on several to be safe.

No matter which way you think any of the major bad news outlets lean, you would have to agree there is no one single 'fair and balanced' source, regardless of what News Corp, Time/Warner, Viacom, Di$ney etc. etc. want you to think. Well except for maybe The Onion! (http://www.theonion.com)
Damn, and I was so close to another non-flippant, on-topic post.

[HappyGoLucky]

Well before it does even that, can we at least agree that the only way to actually get 'fair and balanced' news coverage is to not limit yourself to a single news source. You should probably rely on several to be safe.

No matter which way you think any of the major bad news outlets lean, you would have to agree there is no one single 'fair and balanced' source, regardless of what News Corp, Time/Warner, Viacom, Di$ney etc. etc. want you to think. Well except for maybe The Onion! (http://www.theonion.com)
Damn, and I was so close to another non-flippant, on-topic post.
Well said! Especially "The Onion"! :sure: