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22 Million Viewers is a Double-Edged Sword
Vanity | 08/09/2015 | AdaGray

Posted on 08/09/2015 4:03:17 AM PDT by AdaGray

24 million viewers is a double-edged sword.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: fox; gop; trump
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To: rwh

They’ll be snarky and go through a “bad” one and follow it up with a “good” one (if there are enough) and then more snark and feigned self deprecation, sincere self congratulation and then follow it up with meaningless tripe about being fair and balanced and blah, blah, blah......

I guarantee it.


21 posted on 08/09/2015 4:36:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: AdaGray
My parents were still watching a lot of Fox News as far as I knew, but when I asked my mother - who was for many years a local GOP stalwart - a somewhat smart-aleck question about Megyn Kelly, I got a surprise. It turns out that she and my dad have actually cut their Fox News viewing down a lot, because everything is now either some "loudmouth Democrat" or "one of those crooked Republicans who aren't much better" (her exact words). In a nutshell, neither one of them - dad has always been a Democrat, BTW - trusts Fox News anymore, and Thursday's debate sure didn't help.

When you've lost my folks, well…

Mr. niteowl77

22 posted on 08/09/2015 4:41:42 AM PDT by niteowl77 ("I wish I had better news for you, but the truth is that this thing is not worth fixing anymore.")
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To: canuck_conservative

Fox has been as biased as the rest for a long time now! Bye bye Fox. My spellchecker just tried to change Fox to Fix and it is right. Bye bye Fix news!


23 posted on 08/09/2015 4:41:55 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: fatnotlazy
While some may have seen what America is up against, there's still

The Grubered among us.

24 posted on 08/09/2015 4:43:51 AM PDT by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Will Imperil America...)
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To: Gaffer

Am e pact the true journalist and those who share the evening O really Greta and Hannity to put on a fox face during program but privately avoid and isolate her
Greta has already taken on Kraut, Wills , etc pointing out their analysis does NOT match the polls. May watch Greta. She was the one MK HURT taking her spot. She’s much more experienced and professional then the tramp ever dreamed of being


25 posted on 08/09/2015 4:45:01 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obam65a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?Shutting down and defunding is not enough. People)
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To: AdaGray

Fox was never ‘fair and balanced’. This merely showed its true colors - ‘unfair and unbalanced’.


26 posted on 08/09/2015 5:02:57 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: AdaGray

Do any other Freepers remember when Bret Baier, then a cub reporter for Fox News, was late to the party in announcing the verdict of the OJ Simpson CIVIL trial? As I recall, the verdict was written on a piece of paper and held up to a window (court house window?) and the reporters scrambled to read it and report it out to the viewers. Baier was frantic because he couldn’t read it. Anyway, my memory is hazy on this event, but I think that I have it basically correct.


27 posted on 08/09/2015 5:04:28 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: fatnotlazy

I looked it up......

the audience was approximately 1/3 of Republican voters in the last election

Fox will not loose much of it’s audience long term for one simple reason.... there is no other place to go on TV. and, we don’t know the network’s strategy for regaining it.


28 posted on 08/09/2015 5:12:24 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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To: bert

Who needs tv!


29 posted on 08/09/2015 5:22:35 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: AdaGray

24 million viewers received the message of some fine conservative candidates and the clear message that Fox wants to destroy all of them!


30 posted on 08/09/2015 5:24:09 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: niteowl77

When I first saw FoxNews I was astounded, this was many years ago and I had never realized just how left leaning the others were until I saw a “news” channel that actually leaned right. I remember asking some who claimed that the other news channels did not lean left if they had ever watched FoxNews and most said no, they had not. I told them to watch Fox and come back and tell me if they saw bias in support of the right. Unfortunately some years ago I stopped watching Fox because they had become simply a foil for the left. It was almost comical to see liberals ranting about how far to the right Fox was, in truth by the time they started that rant Fox had become merely a watering hole for Rinos. I haven’t watched Fox regularly since before the death of Tony Snow. You could only take it seriously if you are dim enough to believe that the only women who can read the news well are beauty contest winners. It is almost worse than MSNBC simply because only an idiot takes MSNBC as anything other than a comedy show which is much funnier than Saturday Night Live ever was if you can overlook the tragic aspects (think about it, if you lived in Russia you would die laughing at Al Sharpton doing his routine) but some people still take FoxNews as a conservative news program while it is anything but that.


31 posted on 08/09/2015 6:00:46 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Thursday night was the Megyn Kelly show!


32 posted on 08/09/2015 6:03:18 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: bert

Same strategy as the Republicans. There are many alternatives to TV, and people are very angry. We’ve got SERIOUS problems in this country and not one of these overly paid Prima Donnas gives a rat’s ass because reality doesn’t affect them like it will the peons that continue to prop them up!


33 posted on 08/09/2015 6:08:01 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Gaffer

I will not tune into the next one. I’ll get it second hand by alternative media and mostly FR.


34 posted on 08/09/2015 6:29:34 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Reno89519

No matter what the outside looks like, ugly goes all the way to the bone.

My god, what an ugly mean spirited woman.


35 posted on 08/09/2015 6:42:51 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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To: AdaGray

It’s a one shot deal that doesn’t alter their ad rates. All they get is a moment of bragging rights...and seething jealousy from other networks.

Wait a month to see real effects of Fox’s debacle, especially the prime time news.

Just might be some push back.


36 posted on 08/09/2015 6:49:15 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: AdaGray

You know the question she asked would be like asking Obama why he quotes and uses phrases from Communists.


37 posted on 08/09/2015 6:49:43 AM PDT by dila813
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To: Boardwalk

>>Who needs tv!

Other than the Fauxfolks who depend upon the ability to herd the McSheeple who haven’t figured out how to use Algore’s new Interwebs thingee yet... I can’t think of...

Oh look did you see the squirrel?


38 posted on 08/09/2015 6:51:00 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: beaversmom

A diva is easy to spot......and they ALWAYS think it’s about THEM....regardless of what IT is...it’s always about the b-tch.


39 posted on 08/09/2015 6:54:35 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Totally agree.


40 posted on 08/09/2015 7:54:45 AM PDT by AdaGray
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