Fox News is master of its domain, such as it is
“Fox News will mark 2010 as one of the best years since the network’s launch in 1996. The network posted powerful ratings, beating the combined ratings of CNN and MSNBC and marking the ninth straight year as cable’s top news network.
According to Nielsen, the top five cable news programs in terms of total viewers and viewers 25-54 (the metric used by advertisers and considered the most important by networks) were all on Fox: The O’Reilly Factor (781,000 viewers 25-54); Hannity (585,000); Glenn Beck (572,000); On the Record (481,000); and The O’Reilly Factor repeat (447,000).”
MSNBC beat CNN for the second straight year among viewers 25-54, and for the first time beat CNN among total primetime viewers as well. The numbers for CNN are truly abysmal, not only compared to Fox and MSNBC, but compared to its own numbers of a year ago. Total primetime viewers of CNN fell by 34 percent compared to 2009.
However, Fox viewership fell as well, declining 7 percent in primetime and 8 percent among primetime viewers in the 25-54 demographic. And to put things in some perspective, “The O’Reilly Factor” drew an average of 3.2 million viewers a night. That makes him the king of cable news talk, but well behind network news shows. (For the week of Dec. 20, NBC averaged 9.5 million viewers a night, ABC averaged 8 million a night and CBS averaged 6.2 million).
With roughly 1 percent of America watching, his numbers also put him well behind cable competitors such as his show’s spiritual cousin, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Spongebob Squarepants on Nickelodeon, both of which often pull 5 million or more viewers.
In addition, “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart and “The Colbert Report” with Stephen Colbert both regularly outdraw O’Reilly among the younger demographic sought by advertisers. In fact, it’s striking how old the O’Reilly audience skews (3.2 million average audience, just 781,000 of them between 25 and 54.)
All that said, however, there’s no question of Fox News’ success within its narrow field, nor about the profitability of its approach.
– Jay Bookman
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JohnnyReb
December 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
There’s another aspect missing from this thread – that is those of us with no choice. Yes, I’m talking AJC, the only local hardcopy paper available.
This past Sunday the AJC was blowing its horn due to return to profitability. No doubt recovering from cancelled subscriptions by Conservatives (they won’t agree, just like Barry thinks he did not talk enough about Healthcare). Regardless, good for the AJC, “A” paper is better than no paper. However, the editors must not care if they stay profitable and continue to have no concern for being to the Left in almost everything reported. Case in point, the vacationing Liberal Friedman space was occupied by a piece from the girl at The Nation, whose name I cannot spell and sounds like she belongs in European aristocracy. Friedman is barely tolerable, that girl must live next door to Huffington.
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
“And they all voted for Obama”
Question, JKL2, how do you know who people voted for — do you have access to that information?
Keep up the good fight!
December 30th, 2010
12:30 pm
JKL2 — If there is a finite amount of oil and we are sending money overseas to support foreign oil suppliers, would it not be logical that the better way to produce jobs would be to go with alternative methods that would not only bring jobs to the US but allow us to be a leader in technology while at the same time cutting the demand for oil, which if it were not a manipulated market, reduce the price.
If the concepts Carter discussed had been implemented and not undercut in later administrations, it would be a new world.
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:31 pm
USMC,
“that is the sort of “Identity Politics” that Liberals and CNN keep fomenting and intelligent people recognize it for what it is.”
When’s the last time you watched CNN? Or how often do you do so?
JKL2
December 30th, 2010
12:31 pm
Bosch-
As Granny likes to say, google away. For someone who knows soooo much, you seem to know so little.
Southern Comfort
December 30th, 2010
12:31 pm
And they all voted for Obama. Wouldn’t want to start any theories about an incompetent senator from the most politically corrupt state in the country, surrounded by thugs and criminals running the country now…
If you believe that, then you should worry more than me. They’re going to back whomever’s in charge. You don’t make enemies with the person who writes the laws.
Jay
December 30th, 2010
12:32 pm
That is correct, SoCo. Less than 40 years ago, ultra-conservative Richard Nixon instituted wage/price controls, created the EPA and OSHA, opened relations with Communist China and the Soviet Union and pulled US troops out of the Vietnam War.
Kamchak
December 30th, 2010
12:32 pm
…an incompetent senator from the most politically corrupt state in the country…
Obama’s from Louisiana?
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:33 pm
JKL2,
“As Granny likes to say, google away. For someone who knows soooo much, you seem to know so little.”
Translation: I’m full of sh*t.
Paul
December 30th, 2010
12:34 pm
Before we go too far down the “increase domestic production” and “China’s growing demand” and “It’s a world market”
May I ask you to read the following? We’ve seen it before, it was poo-poohed, we’re seeing it now.
http://tinyurl.com/2dk6ef9
Darwin
December 30th, 2010
12:35 pm
Fox News = preaching to the choir.
Keep up the good fight!
December 30th, 2010
12:36 pm
Identity politics like the so-called “moral majority”, the “christian right”, the tea party. Yes…intelligent people do recognize it for what it is. Do you?
Southern Comfort
December 30th, 2010
12:36 pm
Jay
You won’t hear any of them admit to it though. That’s why I refuse to get into the partisan game. You can’t shift the 50 yard line in football, and I don’t think you should try to shift it in politics. The middle is the middle, and not some arbitrary point that you can move to please your group or p*ss of the other group.
LoveFox
December 30th, 2010
12:37 pm
More left wing snark from Mr. Bookman. Surprise, Surprise. Fox beats MSNBC and CNN because people got tired of the left wing drivel spewed out of those so called news outlets. Nothing more.
God Bless America... and no one else
December 30th, 2010
12:37 pm
Nixon “ultra-conservative”???? Only as compared to George McGovern.
Jay, if the “world oil markets don’t work that way”, then why did you say the Iraq War was for cheap oil?
USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
12:37 pm
Bosch,
I watch across the board: CNN, FOX, MSNBC, networks, NYT, WSJ, Huffpo, Drudge, etc.
So stop with the usual condescending attitude. We just simply disagree.
I respect your opinion.
George Langston
December 30th, 2010
12:38 pm
Doggone/GA – You were being ironic. Still looking for an answer to the question. Does anybody know how much of the broadcast audience doesn’t subscribe to cable? It has a bearing on the discussion.
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:38 pm
SoCo,
“You can’t shift the 50 yard line in football, and I don’t think you should try to shift it in politics.”
Funny how I used to think of myself as conservative, now I’m a screaming liberal. I think the right has tried to move that line, and anything left of the one yard line from their side is screaming socialist.
JohnnyReb
December 30th, 2010
12:38 pm
The Tea Party’s intent is to, in fact, shift the “political 50 yard line.” The mid-term was all about telling Progressives – your party is over; we have allowed you to go too far, and we intend to undo some of your mess.
Jay
December 30th, 2010
12:39 pm
GodBless, no one who knows a thing about American political history would dispute the claim that Nixon was strongly conservative by the standards of his era.
Kamchak
December 30th, 2010
12:39 pm
Does anybody know how much of the broadcast audience doesn’t subscribe to cable?
Whatsamatta?
Your google broken?
JKL2
December 30th, 2010
12:40 pm
Bosch- Question, JKL2, how do you know who people voted for — do you have access to that information?
Kind of like how more people voted for JFK than were registered in Chicago. Where’s obama from again(and I don’t mean Kenya, er Hawaii)?
The people trying to expand the government and take over everything are liberal/progressive. (Remember the small government/Tea Party people you like to make fun of?)
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:40 pm
“So stop with the usual condescending attitude. We just simply disagree.”
Condescending? Sorry if you interpret that way, but I’m simply asking you to define examples of how Anderson Cooper promotes a liberal gay agenda in his workplace.
If you can’t, then fine, just be honest.
joe
December 30th, 2010
12:42 pm
Bookman, I will agree with you that TODAY’s media outlets are mostly liberal (at least the national tv networks anyway, but national radio slants toward conservative). BUT, and this is a big but, the liberal slant of today’s tv networks is still a relatively new thing. It wasn’t that way 20 or 30 years ago, back in the Walter Kronkite (sp) days when being a journalist meant something. There is hardly any neutrality left by reporters, except for Jamie Dupree…most take a slant based on their own beliefs or those of their executive producers and owners who sign their paychecks and tell them to report a certain way. Agree??
If CNN wants to turn itself around, being based in the south, they’d be smart to follow Fox News’s lead and report with a conservative slant to attract more viewers. You know what they say, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:42 pm
JKL2,
So, I conclude by your posts now that give no details as to how drilling domestic oil will lower gas prices, throwing in the Department of Energy, with no explanation as to how that proves your point, and continued rhetorical swipes that explain nothing as to mean that you can’t back up your assertions.
Southern Comfort
December 30th, 2010
12:43 pm
The Tea Party’s intent is to, in fact, shift the “political 50 yard line.”
That is a dangerous game to play. In a free society, you are trying to narrow peoples views and choices. When that has been done in other countries, it has led to communism or fascism.
If you are going to have a legit system, you can’t move the center over and over again. You end up knocking the system out of order and create chaos. Try that on the tires of your car and see what happens. Move the center towards one side and see how far out of balance your tire gets. That’s why our country is so Fu*ked up right now.
Darwin
December 30th, 2010
12:44 pm
It’s because liberals CAN read.
josef nix
December 30th, 2010
12:44 pm
On Anderson Cooper and liberal gay agenda…I’m que*r as a three dollar bill and a talking heads addict and only recently (like within the last couple of months) “found out” he was gay.
USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
12:44 pm
Jay,
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe it was President Richard Nixon who started the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
-just saying
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:45 pm
joe,
CNN does that. They have conservative talking heads on every time I tune in. In my opinion, the people who like that kind of thing watch FOX or MSNBC now, the people who don’t tune out because they don’t like that kind of entertainment and are smart enough to look for and recognize real news.
Kamchak
December 30th, 2010
12:45 pm
It wasn’t that way 20 or 30 years ago, back in the Walter Kronkite (sp) days when being a journalist meant something.
Oh, puh-leeze.
Talk-radio has been whinging about the “liberal media” for 35 years.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 30th, 2010
12:45 pm
Nixon was a SOCIALIST? Was he an American, did anyone see the long form of his birth certificate?
God Bless America... and no one else
December 30th, 2010
12:46 pm
And his era would include Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Donald Critchlow and William F. Buckley would disagree with you, and I think both of them know a great deal about that particular time in US political history. They lived it.
Southern Comfort
December 30th, 2010
12:46 pm
BUT, and this is a big but, the liberal slant of today’s tv networks is still a relatively new thing. It wasn’t that way 20 or 30 years ago, back in the Walter Kronkite (sp) days when being a journalist meant something.
I’m sure that also coincides with the Right’s lurch towards the far right. If you’re sitting out on one extreme, you should expect everything other than what you see as correct to be of the opposite viewpoint. The media hasn’t changed much, it’s the Right that has changed and is trying to pull everyone else along for the ride.
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:47 pm
josef,
Has Cooper confirmed that? I think that is speculation on the public’s part. I’ve actually always respected Cooper for keeping his personal life personal.
JohnnyReb
December 30th, 2010
12:47 pm
Southern Comfort – I suggest we have chaos now, and it is due to Progressives having gone too far. Not just since Obama, but long before that. The majority are saying enough, your agenda and ideology is not the America we want.
josef nix
December 30th, 2010
12:47 pm
JAY
Nixon and his era…and yet when it comes to Indian policy and the Environment his were liberal by the standards of any generation…probably the best friend either ever had at 1600..
Doggone/GA
December 30th, 2010
12:48 pm
“The media hasn’t changed much”
Thank you. Everytime I hear this “liberal media” BS I want someone, ANYONE, to give me examples of slanted news reports. No one ever does. Though they WILL, sometimes, try to slip in OPINION pieces as “proof”
Bosch
December 30th, 2010
12:48 pm
Well, it’s almost 1:00 and that closet isn’t going to clean itself and Santa did not bring me a magic wand to scrub those steps…..
later all.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 30th, 2010
12:48 pm
The oil companies won’t build refineries because they are unsure about how much of a tax break they are going to get and they haven’t figured out a way to offshore the jobs to China or India YET.
USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
12:49 pm
“It’s because liberals CAN read.”
Yes, some liberals can read: like the liberal sheep who are bussed in and given voting cards with the politician’s name already filled in, so they know who to vote for while in the voting booth.
just sayin
Doggone/GA
December 30th, 2010
12:49 pm
“Doggone/GA – You were being ironic”
Nope. I was being sarcastic
art
December 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
Do people really watch TV news or programs anymore? I canceled my cable subscription 10 years ago when high-speed internet came available. Really, people. Stop being Cro Magnons and evolve. To paraphrase Nancy Reagan, JUST TUNE OUT.
Paul
December 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
“no one who knows a thing about American political history would dispute the claim that Nixon was strongly conservative by the standards of his era.”
But now we’re in the era of litmus tests and checklists for what it means to be a “real” Republican. And applying those standards to evaluations of people who lived decades ago.
Heck, Nelson Rockefeller was a Republican. I’d like how he’d go into a hostile crowd and tell’em what they didn’t want to hear. Just like Candidate Obama going to Detroit and telling the execs the days of the 10mpg SUV was o-vah.
“Nelson Rockefeller: Republican Party must repudiate extremists ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whjyvqtoDrA
ty webb
December 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
more like moronic
josef nix
December 30th, 2010
12:51 pm
BOSCH
Depends on what you mean by “confirmed.” Has he made some big public statement, not to my knowledge. Does he “run” in gay circles in his time off, yes. Does his beau accompany him to social and professional functions, yes. He’s Ben Maisani.
Southern Comfort
December 30th, 2010
12:52 pm
JReb
I’ll agree with the chaos, but for different reasons. As I’ve said, you can’t keep moving the middle and expect everyone to follow suit.
eLbb
December 30th, 2010
12:53 pm
I watch FOX radio
Jay
December 30th, 2010
12:53 pm
And USMC, rather like the Christian Coalition “voting guides?”
JKL2
December 30th, 2010
12:55 pm
Bosch- I’m full of sh*t.
Something we can agree on. I can’t make a correlation between reducing our dependence on other countries for energy and our current oil market either.
Don’t worry, I want archive it like Granny would, to bring up in future conversations.
I am getting kicked off by the wife. Peace, out.
USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
12:55 pm
Oh Jay,
Nowhere close and you know it.
Go to every inner city and see for yourself, but I know you alread know this to be true.
(I know I was being “snarky” when I posted that, but it is real. be honest)
joe
December 30th, 2010
12:56 pm
@ kamchack:
From Wikipedia:
The Rush Limbaugh Show (also called The Rush Limbaugh Program) is an American talk radio show hosted by Rush Limbaugh on Premiere Radio Networks. Since its inception on August 1, 1988, The Rush Limbaugh Show has become the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States.
Not sure if any conservative radio hosts have been at it longer than rush, but his show started 22 years ago, so your 35 year claim is exaggerated and misleading…as most liberals like you tend to do.
eLbb
December 30th, 2010
12:56 pm
If you can’t beat em BEAT EM some more
JKL2
December 30th, 2010
12:57 pm
Won’t archive it, that is. (Have another field day spell check czar’s)
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
12:59 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common
December 30th, 2010
12:48 pm
Build refineries! The progressive liberals will never do that. Their motto is,”Starve an oil based economy of oil and blame the corporations and conservatives.” Tell lies like global warming, conservatives wants to starve children, give tax breaks to the rich and not to the poor, we need more money for education and indoctrination, we need more unions, and I could go on for days.
Jay
December 30th, 2010
1:02 pm
Oh it IS real, USMC. I would never claim otherwise.
But the pervasiveness of the Christian Coalition voting guides is just as real.
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:03 pm
The only reason people watch abc, nbc, and cbs news is because it comes on after Opra. CNN and the ajc has spent the whole year promoting homosexuality to include DADT. I hope they all watch CNN and read AJC. Of course they must buy those advertising spots too.
HDB
December 30th, 2010
1:07 pm
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
12:59 pm
The problem is that oil is a FINITE resource…and it’s visionary to work towards the transition from a finite resource to a more plentiful resource!! Also, by the time a refinery gets online, it’s already obsolete (like a road!). What needs to be expanded is wind and solar power (check what Iowa is doing now!), increased nuclear power…and tax breaks for technology for electric cars. Once the electric infrastructure is improved, the US could be the innovator…rather than the consumer!!
Note: It was Ronald Reagan who took the alternative energy tax credit OUT of the tax code….making the Germans (Siemens) the leader over GE…and Bill Clinton put the tax credit BACK!!
George Langston
December 30th, 2010
1:09 pm
Doggone/GA – irony is the literary basis for sarcasm.
USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
1:09 pm
Ok Jay,
But to compare the two and say they are somehow equal is a little bit of a stretch, furthermore, to agree with a group based on policy is a lot different than the Left’s grouping of people by RACE, GENDER, NATIONAL ORIGIN and SEXUAL PREFERENCE. “Hey, we have to vote for him because he is (hyphenated, fill in the blank) American”.
I respect your opinion, but we just disagree.
eLbb
December 30th, 2010
1:09 pm
God Bless America… and no one else@12:46 pm
And his era would include Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Donald Critchlow and William F. Buckley would disagree with you, and I think both of them know a great deal about that particular time in US political history. They lived it.
——————————————————–
and so did a lot of us here. If you didn’t then what the hell is your point.
Also 3 out of 4 share a trait (hint: they’re not breathing)
So it’s kind of difficult to know what they would think about what is happening today.
Kamchak
December 30th, 2010
1:11 pm
joe
Rush Limbaugh didn’t invent talk-radio.
Talk-radio came to Atlanta in the late to mid 70s. For a very brief period it was something akin to The Jerry Springer Show, where people would call in and talk about what their neighbors were up to and it was hilarious, but that only lasted about a month and then it turned political. Neal Boortz started his show on WRNG-AM and his shtick has not changed in thirty years.
USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
1:12 pm
fyi,
Maybe we have done enough to curb Global Warming…er… Climate Change. (I am totally kidding)
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/169577/Winter-may-be-coldest-in-1000-years/
John Birch
December 30th, 2010
1:14 pm
“Cable news programs”, Hannity, O’Reilly and Beck aren’t really news shows, not like the networks 6:00 news. They are opinion shows. I believe this practice started about 20 years ago when the NY Times started running op-ed pieces on it’s front page, disguised as ‘news’.
HDB
December 30th, 2010
1:15 pm
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:03 pm
The preponderance of American viewers have multiple news sources….and the issue is really this: does the point of view and the disseminiation fit a person’s belief system?? For the majority, FOX doesn’t fit; for those who VIEW the news objectively, Fox is a resource…but not the PRIMARY resource!! For many who are staunch in their beliefs, either FOX fits…or it doesn’t!!
IMHO, Fox DOESN’T look at multiple points of view in the same vein as CNN nor MSNBC; their opinion shows are SO biased that the GOP talking points are all that’s being relayed!!
I’d rather watch CNN (particularly CNN International), BBC, then MSNBC, then FOX (in that sequence)….then read as many papers from as many areas (worldwide) as I can to discover the TRUTH..not just the slant!!
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:17 pm
“The problem is that oil is a FINITE resource”
So is the sun HDB. But the problem is not alternative fuels, it is the process progressive liberals used. Why am I going to pay $5 a gallon of gas? To make you feel better?
The Thin Guy
December 30th, 2010
1:19 pm
The only show on Fox that I watch is Red Eye with the great Greg Gutfield which comes on from 3-4 am, the reason why the DVR was invented. By far the funniest show on tv. Try to imagine a right wing version of Jay Bookman with a sense of humor. Greta, Bill, Shawn, and Glenn are too boring. The reason for the ascendancy of Fox over PMSNBC, CNN (Client Number Nine), ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS is they present news whereas the others are propaganda machines for George Soros and his left wing Moonbats. In this country we have the freedom to watch what we want. The only time I get irritated is when my car is being serviced and I have to sit in the waiting room where the tv is tuned to CNN and there is an endless parade of left wing twits who couldn’t find compost in an outhouse. Heck, I’d rather walk outside and talk to the car sales people.
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:19 pm
“does the point of view and the disseminiation fit a person’s belief system?”
Not if they are looking for facts and real time news. That is a liberal philosophy!
HDB
December 30th, 2010
1:22 pm
USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
1:09 pm
“USMC dawg
December 30th, 2010
1:09 pm
Ok Jay,
But to compare the two and say they are somehow equal is a little bit of a stretch, furthermore, to agree with a group based on policy is a lot different than the Left’s grouping of people by RACE, GENDER, NATIONAL ORIGIN and SEXUAL PREFERENCE. “Hey, we have to vote for him because he is (hyphenated, fill in the blank) American”.
Actually…it’s NOT that much of a stretch; if you compare the voting guides, they DO follow your paradigm…the deal is that what passes for a voting guide in the inner city is a more diverse representation vs. what the Christian Coalition presents:
RACE: Variable vs. White
GENDER: Variable vs. Male
NATIONAL ORIGIN: Variable vs. WASP (particularly Southern Baptist)
SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Variable vs. STRAIGHT
It goes both ways……..
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:23 pm
“The reason for the ascendancy of Fox over PMSNBC, CNN (Client Number Nine), ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS is they present news whereas the others are propaganda machines for George Soros and his left wing Moonbats.
HDB that is a fact and a reason why people turn to FOX! The other media has shaped the news instead of reporting it. Examples are the election in Nevada, DADT, and WMD’s. Liberals do not giving the facts because many time the fact does not promote their agendas.
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:24 pm
sorry about the typos
josef nix
December 30th, 2010
1:24 pm
HDB
Ditto on CNN international…
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:27 pm
“is a more diverse representation”
Is this the liberal way of saying,”If it feels good do it!” Or you can do it because there are no real truths. Yep, liberals profess to be wise thus became fools.
HDB
December 30th, 2010
1:30 pm
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:17 pm
We’re paying $5/gallon because that’s what the OIL COMPANIES and the speculators in the market are demanding!! Cutting your fuel costs, for some, is as simple as driving a smaller car (4/6-cyl. vs the V8)….or telecommuting….or public transportation!!
It’s not a liberal process……they don’t control the means of production!!
1:19 pm
“does the point of view and the disseminiation fit a person’s belief system?”
Not if they are looking for facts and real time news. That is a liberal philosophy!”
Not actually….if you’re looking for the FACTS….theere is no ONE outlet that disseminates the FACTS!! In order to determine what is FACTUAL from what is SPECULATION…one MUST input the news from multiple sources, discern the factual from the talking points….
THAT takes who is informed in the issues; those who PRIMARILY use FOX tend to limit themselves…just as those who limit themselves to just MSNBC. IMHO, the most balanced news organization in the US is CNN…but I don’t limit myself to just that……
Interested observer
December 30th, 2010
1:30 pm
CNN has made CNN irrelevant. It’s been trying to emulate FOX to its own detriment. Nobody can do FOX like FOX (thank God). Even its cousin HLN, instead of providing a 30-minute roundup of worldwide news, has deteriorated into a 30-minute segment showing crime scenes, fires, rescues and drama that, while important in the city in which it takes place, is irrelevant to a national audience. It’s like eating cotton candy – tasty, but when you get done, you’ve consumed virtually nothing.
At least Ted Turner knew news.
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:32 pm
“It’s not a liberal process……they don’t control the means of production!!”
Yes they did! In the 70’s, in the 80’s, in the 90’s, and now are back at it again.
LBB
December 30th, 2010
1:32 pm
williebkind@1:17 pm
So is the sun HDB. But the problem is not alternative fuels, it is the process progressive liberals used. Why am I going to pay $5 a gallon of gas? To make you feel better?
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No you will be paying $5 a gallon because China will be buying as much as it can get driving the price up.
And they have the money because YOUR Pres. Bush (the lesser) has driven the US to the edge of bankruptcy and because of those wonderful tax cuts and deficit (don’t matter) spending.
What, didn’t your crystal ball work to let you know it was coming?
Guess you should have put your tax cut into the stock market.
HDB
December 30th, 2010
1:34 pm
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:27 pm
“is a more diverse representation”
A more diverse representation simply means from what vantage point is the news disseminated: conservative vs. liberal; ethnically-different disseminators, a broad spectrum of ideologies……FOX is limited…..CNN isn’t as extreme as FOX nor MSNBC!! To its credit. MSNBC has a more diverse representation than FOX does…..but the FACTS always lie between the extremes!!
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:36 pm
“IMHO, the most balanced news organization in the US is CNN…but I don’t limit myself to just that……”
Balanced! Did you say balanced? I watch CNN every day and I see an agenda being pushed everytime I watch it. I just said they pushed DADT everyday until congress passed it against the will of the people. That congress was voted out and did something that never was done before in a lame duck congress. But that is OK, because the conservatives will have their shot at doing the same. So sharpen your pencil!
HDB
December 30th, 2010
1:39 pm
Interested observer
December 30th, 2010
1:30 pm
SO ON POINT!! That’s why CNN International is where I look to FIRST!!
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:32 pm
“It’s not a liberal process……they don’t control the means of production!!”
Yes they did! In the 70’s, in the 80’s, in the 90’s, and now are back at it again.”
Please elaborate HOW liberals control the means of production; EXXON, BP, Conoco/Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell, Amaranda Hess would NOT invest in building refineries unless they would be PROFITABLE!! At last, EXXON is the RICHEST oil company…and can build a refinery if they so desired!!
Don’t blame the regulatory issues, either; any company can adapt to fit the regulatory environment IF they see the profit!!
HDB
December 30th, 2010
1:48 pm
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
1:36 pm
“Balanced! Did you say balanced? I watch CNN every day and I see an agenda being pushed everytime I watch it. I just said they pushed DADT everyday until congress passed it against the will of the people. That congress was voted out and did something that never was done before in a lame duck congress.”
Three things: 1) Comparitively, CNN IS the most BALANCED when judged between itself, FOX, and MSNBC. Note: all THREE have an agenda: FOX = GOP; MSNBC = liberal; CNN = center/left…but not as extreme!!
2) DADT was desired BY the PREPONDERNCE of Americans:
….from the Washington Post:
Most back repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ poll says
By Ed O’Keefe and Jon Cohen
Nearly eight in 10 Americans favor allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The results signal continued widespread public support for ending the military’s 17-year ban on gays in the military and come as Congress prepares to vote again on legislation ending the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law.
Overall, 77 percent of Americans say gays and lesbians who publicly disclose their sexual orientation should be able to serve in the military. That’s little changed from polls over the two years, but represents the highest level of support in a Post-ABC poll. The support also cuts across partisan and ideological lines, with majorities of Democrats, Republicans, independents, liberals, conservatives and white evangelical Protestants in favor of homosexuals’ serving openly.
3) Congressional terms END when the next Congress is SWORN IN!! They still had issues to take care! I’m glad they worked up to the holidays to get things done for the nation rather than take the easy way out!! A lot DID get done!!
corruption fighter
December 30th, 2010
2:16 pm
i am a hard working, tax paying, asian immigrant professional who loves this country and love the fox news and bill oreilly segment.
they speak the truth and speak for america unlike cnn,msnbc,abc,cbs.
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
2:27 pm
“2) DADT was desired BY the PREPONDERNCE of Americans:
….from the Washington Post:”
Enough said about that liberal paper. The preponderence of Americans do not serve in the military. It is strange they did not poll my area! I know they polled DC, San Francisco, and NY. Maybe that is the mass majority of Americans. Remember the preponderence of Americans did not want the health care bill. So what does all this mean? News agencies like the aforementioned have an agenda and they push it onto Americans.
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
2:30 pm
“Don’t blame the regulatory issues, either; any company can adapt to fit the regulatory environment IF they see the profit!!”
You talk like people should not make a profit. However, you need a permit to build. Now lets talk about permits. Who controlled the issuance of permits? California said no permits for refineries but want the US government guarantee them electricity made in other states. Now how progressive.
Finn McCool
December 30th, 2010
2:58 pm
I interviewed once with Primedia but I saw they had Fox News on in the lobby so, needless to say, the interview didn’t go well.
Idiots.
HDB
December 30th, 2010
3:02 pm
williebkind
December 30th, 2010
2:27 pm
The Washington Post, like the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal….is considered a paper of RECORD…so they are NOT as liberal as you suspect them to be!! Their poll was a scientific survey!!
2:30 pm
I’m NOT against profit…..that’s why a corporation must be FLEXIBLE in the regulatory environment so that they CAN profit from the changing ecological/political environment!! If a corporation can NOT adjust to a changing environment, how do you expect them to remain profitable??
Josef Stalin
December 30th, 2010
3:06 pm
I just love it Jay when your column appears and it’s loaded with lies, innuendos and assorted dirty tricks against anything conservative, Fox News, or Republicans in general!
Sorta brings out the best of your “readers:” the jealous, Envious, arrogant and narcisstic left-wing progressive bast**ds!
Keep up the good work and help the AJC continue to lose subscribers!
chuck
December 30th, 2010
3:33 pm
So Jay, I guess there was ever a chance that you could have just congratulated them on the win without adding the snide remarks at the end.
So O’Reilly’s “spiritual cousin” is the WWE? What’s yours…Huffington Post? No, more like the Daily Kos.
chuck
December 30th, 2010
3:39 pm
HDB, ONE article that I read stated that just in the Gulf, we have a 20 year supply. Add in Alaska and the recent find in the Dakotas and we have a 100 year supply JUST HERE IN THE US.
We don’t need the nut job left telling us how to live our lives. They’ll have to pry my steering wheel from my cold dead hands.
Pogo
December 30th, 2010
4:00 pm
Jay, it’s not the number of people that you influence it is the make-up of those that you do influence. FOX influences a very powerful voting block in this country (as evidenced in the last election). The same cannot be said for the progressive “others” you mentioned. Stewart is a clown and as such, should be treated as one. Any serious person knows he means nothing and that he is just as self-serving as any other talking head on the boob-tube pitching crap to make a buck. As for network news, YAWN!!!!!!! CNN? It died years ago, it just doesn’t realize it IS dead.
Mick Hannigan
December 30th, 2010
4:03 pm
Jay-
Is it possible that there are fewer cable/satellite available viewers than regular channel viewers (i.e., Free TV over-the-air)?
Most of the people on this blog probably wouldn’t have brains enough to watch cable/satellite or, if they did, couldn’t find their “Children’s World” channel let alone Fox News!
Eat your heart out CNN and Misguided Nutjobs of NBC (MSNBC for short).
Joe
December 30th, 2010
4:07 pm
When you tell both sides of the story and don’t distort facts you’ll always be #1…..
Martin Williams
December 30th, 2010
4:13 pm
It tells a lot about America’s moral and we keeping fooling the rest of the world that, we are a Christain Nation.
Titleist101
December 30th, 2010
5:15 pm
Jay……you never cease to amaze me. At your core, you are by far a left wing technocrat with zero objectivity. You take statistics and twist them to your own advantage in writiting for the AJC (part of the “liberal conspiracy”). What you don’t realize is that Fox blows away the competition because the American public figured out long ago that the liberal media has been biased all along and that they are just looking for an alternative. I’m not saying that Fox is not biased but their news is far more balanced than the general media.
LIberal Pariah
December 30th, 2010
5:41 pm
Results not surprising. The heartbeat of the average American beats conservative. From just barely to way out there
FOX had a business plan to fill a void and that’s exactly what they’ve done. FOX, CNN and MSNBC are all biased…it’s just that the conservative bias wins!!!!
AIR AMERICA where are you?
Atlanta1
December 30th, 2010
6:35 pm
It’s pretty simple. The Majority of the left splits up between CNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC. The Center holds it nose and usually goes with CNN and then depending on their ‘lean’ the regular networks or Fox. The right is with Fox.
One conservative network; multiple liberal networks.
ken
December 30th, 2010
6:40 pm
Titleist101, I second that.
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rlking2
December 31st, 2010
9:54 pm
Doggone..YOU should check your numbers….Fox out does the liberal networks also. Check it out !
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