Posted on 06/17/2009 8:06:37 PM PDT by Justaham
While media watchdogs are getting spun up over the planned ABC Health Care infomercial delivered from the White House Blue Room next Wednesday, the administration is quietly developing plans to completely take over the rest of ABC’s prime time line-up. Given some of the recent ratings troubles, the network seems all too anxious to give itself up to the President’s management team. Obama’s unique ability to maintain high approval ratings while his programs and proposals are failing the public acceptance test is a skill that the programming gurus would like to duplicate.
Other networks are anxiously watching. Should Obama succeed in driving ABC ratings up, theirs could be the next networks targeted for federal takeover. Even if the General Motors and Banking takeovers proved to be financial disasters, NBC and CBS have such horrible ratings that a takeover might be a step in the right direction.
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Tell EVERYONE you know NOT to watch the Charlie Gibson news live from the WH (and the following infomercial, of course) ...
Have your friends watch Katie for this ONE night ...
There are ratings for network news shows - would be damn funny if Katie beat Charlie in them ...
The ABC suits would be FURIOUS !!!
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