FOX NEWS STUNS NETS

New York Post ^ | 9/04/04 | DON KAPLAN

[kattracks]

September 4, 2004 -- NETWORK news divisions are nursing bruises in the wake of the Republican National Convention, in which viewers found cable news more popular. It was a seismic shift in the history of convention coverage, and it sent a clear message to network news officials that in 2008, things will have to be different.

"There's no question that we stood back and said to each other, 'Whoa, what happened there,' " a network news source said yesterday.

"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention," says ABC News senior vice president Paul Slavin. "But there are a whole host of new technologies coming online now that we will all utilize four years from now in ways that none of us may even suspect right now."

Slavin thinks that next time, the big nets are likely to offer viewers convention coverage "significantly enhanced over what they received this year" specifically tailored to different viewers tastes.

[NewMediaFan]

[sarcasm]
This is terrible news! America is now being deprived the insights of objective experienced reporters like Dan Rather and Peter Jennings.
A nation mourns.
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[Mo1]

IMO .. they don't want to fix it .. they want to fix us

[Bonaparte]

What you said!!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Naturally. They see us as the same mind numbed robots they once shepherded for decades, now being herded by FOX News Channel. This is an absolute fact.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The slogan "We Report, You Decide" sends any Liberal over the edge, to the point of calling names. (Faux News, Rupert's Mouthpiece, the GOP Bullhorn, yada, yada, yada...)

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

Last night I was listening to ABC radio in the car and their main news coverage of Bush's acceptance speech was..."(President Bush)addressed his image problem by attributing his bluntness to a domineering mother." I almost drove off the road...Sheesh.

[Mo1]

The slogan "We Report, You Decide" sends any Liberal over the edge

The liberals can blow it out their ear as far as I'm concerned

I don't agree with everything Fox News reports

But at least they report as best they can on a story .. they give both sides a chance to report and most of all they give me the freedom to decide my own opinion

Sorry for the rant .. I'm just sick and tired of the holier then thou MSM

[ChadGore]

AMERICA TO THE NETWORKS: It's the content, stupid.

[LibLieSlayer]

"Slavin thinks that next time, the big nets are likely to offer viewers convention coverage "significantly enhanced over what they received this year" specifically tailored to different viewers tastes".

Yea, ALL LIBERAL "TASTES"!!! These idiots do not have a clue as to why America is abandoning them! How about all you do is spew hatred for "REAL AMERICA"!

LLS

[L.N. Smithee]

"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention," says ABC News senior vice president Paul Slavin.

In the words of Richard Pryor in Silver Streak: "You wanna know what happened? We just whooped your *ss!"

[BigSkyFreeper]

Oh I agree with you! I don't agree with everything FOX News reports as well. Quite frankly, I think FOX News is becoming more "hard news" oriented than anything else. It's becoming nothing more than CourtTV, Inside Edition, and Abcess Hollyweird all rolled into one 24-hour period, broken up by the occasional car chase in Los Angeles with the same end result. I'm just tired of being told outright by the talkinghead on the TV that I cannot make up my own mind.

[capitan_refugio]

"If a reporter ever goes in the tank for any candidate, fire 'em. Make reporters earn their day's pay."

It is a sad state of affairs, but if reporters, especially on the Washington beat, ever really do what they are supposed to do, they are called "investigative reporters." Most reporters today are in actuality "repeaters." They sometimes spend years developing sources in the ranks of Congressional staffers and politicians - and they dare not bite the hand that feeds them! So they dutifully take the tidbits they are fed and pass them along.

[StoneFury]

I think you'd have to start by firing their bosses first, since they are the ones hiring reporters who match up with their biases.

I don't know if they ask for political affiliation in an interview, but I DO know that my alma mater (Syracuse) has a very highly-rated public communications school (regarded #1 in the country I think), and also that Nader received more votes on campus than Bush did in the 2000 election.

The point is, liberals flock to journalism careers as flies flock to sh*t.

[edwin hubble]

"In the words of Richard Pryor in Silver Streak:"

Silver Streak was one of the funniest movies...
Outrageous scenes... Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

[L.N. Smithee]

Silver Streak was one of the funniest movies... Outrageous scenes... Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

And the icky Patrick McGoohan as the calm, cool, killer millionaire. The best comedy of its kind prior to Running Scared and the great Midnight Run.

Next time you watch Silver Streak, take note of the scene when Wilder re-boards the train and chats with Ned Beatty, just before Beatty admits he's with the FBI. Wilder is trying to light a cigarette, and instead of burning normally, it catches fire!

Wilder wasn't fazed a whit. He stayed in character, didn't even acknowledge that the ciggie was flaming, and finishes his shot. Beatty recited his line, and Wilder simply picked up another smoke. It lit correctly the second time.

[Watery Tart]

"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention," says ABC News senior vice president Paul Slavin. "But there are a whole host of new technologies coming online now that we will all utilize four years from now in ways that none of us may even suspect right now."

Sounds just like a sKerry campaign promise fercryinoutloud! "I would do it much better than the current administration. I won't tell you how until you elect me -- there are no actual plans or anything -- but I can do it much better."

Did it occur to this overpaid idiot that FOR ONE THING, MAYBE ONE HOUR A NIGHT WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR US? I could go on about content, but I don't speak his language....

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Tag line shamelessly stolen from Howie Carr:

[AmericaUnited]

Slavin thinks that next time, the big nets are likely to offer viewers convention coverage "significantly enhanced over what they received this year" specifically tailored to different viewers tastes.

Yeah, like get that foul taste of liberal slant out of my mouth and maybe me and many others will watch you.

[Big E]

"Oh, I think they get it alright, they just won't admit it."

You're darn right they get it. They just don't care. Some time ago, the Democrat media stopped being about reporting the truth, or for that matter, operating as a business and making money. They are about advancing the Democrat-Socialist position at the cost of all else.

Last night I was flipping through the channels, I saw Chris Matthews interviewing DeeDee Myers and Andrea Mitchell, who were all trying to stratagize how to pump up Kerry and bring down Bush. No bias there, no siree bob! At least they all looked pretty down.

[SamAdams76]

As a child growing up in the 1970s, I remember the "networks" vividly. They were "CBS", "ABC" and "NBC" and other then a few local UHF channels and PBS, they were the only game in town so far as things TV goes.

Now in 2004, it has been a full decade (at least) since I even sat down and watched a network show. Other than NFL football games and the occasional non-NFL sporting event, they might as well not even exist. When I sit down to watch TV (not very often), I'll look for the History Channel, Discovery, FoxNews, or any other of a dozen cable channels that I have programmed as favorites on my remote control.

What few TV shows I bother watching, I buy on DVD. The Sopranos, X-Files, NYPD Blue, all on DVD. Never even watched fourth or fifth season of Sopranos yet but that's okay, I got season four waiting for me on DVD for whenever I'm ready to see it and I'll get season five when it comes out later.

During the convention, I had Free Republic on the laptop and flipped between FoxNews and C-SPAN the whole time. Never even knew if the networks were covering it or not. Didn't care either.

[chainsaw]

Any Freeper can tell them what their problem is. We want the facts not their liberal biased opinion of the news.

I don't need someone telling me that so and so said something different then so and so did, when I just heard what was said and it was not anything like what so and so had just said. Most Americn do understand English.