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To: rightalien
"They've tapped into an outrage that's lurking among a certain small segment of the population, mostly angry white men, and those men tend to be rabid," the new CNN chief tells Charlie Rose of PBS. "They tend to be habitual. They tend to like to have their points of view reinforced."

That attitude is sure to turn your ratings around.

20 posted on 04/11/2005 1:09:15 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (Welcome to the Hotel Free Republic-You can check out any time you like but you can never leave)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
Yeah funny isn't it. That's his simplistic marketing pitch: FoxNews watchers are angry, unthinking and stubborn. CNN watchers are eclectic and open minded.

If you don't convert back we didn't want you anyway....(but please convert.)

Have you ever been shamed or embarassed away from using an information source? He's banking his job on it. Newflash for the newsman: in general educated folks stop falling for the "the cooool people are into..." tactic about they leave high school.

63 posted on 04/11/2005 2:24:17 PM PDT by Sax
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