Nightly News Feels Pinch of 24-Hour News (Feel the Pain of Fox News, Vermin!)

The New York Times ^ | April 15, 2003 | Bill Carter

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[MinuteGal]

The author deftly tiptoed around FOX like it was a minefield, didn't he?

The three alphabet nets with their over-the-hill anchors will never recover viewers who've switched to the cables simply because they're more lively. And.....in particular, FOX, because in the truth business, it has more gravitas.

Leni

[Brad’s Gramma]

I "don't" have the money, I honestly don't...but somehow I'm going to get enough put together to buy a video card (?) for my computer. I saw one on someone's computer at work, the first day that we REALLY started bombing.

It was called WinTV? I think.

ANYWAY! We don't have cable here, I personally HATE TV...and the news we get is so incredibly biased, I'm MORE THAN DELIGHTED they're taking a hit. I hope CNN goes down, too, big time for what they pulled.

[Drango]

And from this article, check out what they say about PBS.
http://www.current.org/news/news0307friday.html

"Like it or not, we lost a whole group of people to Fox, and I don't know if Bill [Moyers] is the problem," said David LeRoy, co-director of the public TV research firm TRAC Media Services. Older men who regularly watched PBS went to the Fox News Channel immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and never came back, he added.

As it's pledge week on some NPR stations, might I suggest that people who enjoy FreeRepublic click on the link and pledge here. Give what you can. NPR suggests $5 per month.

[Cicero]

The problem with the Big Three Talking Heads news shows is that they hardly give you any news. I stopped watching TV news even before I stopped watching TV. You sit there for half an hour, get ten minutes of ads, a bunch of "human interest" and spin, and hardly any news at all.

The only reason I can possibly think of for watching any of these fellows is if you like their hairdos. I don't.

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"After 9-11, viewers looked to the network anchormen to help knit the fabric of the nation back together," Mr. Heyward said.

As more people realize that 'knitting the fabric of the nation back together' means massaging the news so that no one's feelings get hurt, they will continue the trend toward preferring a little more truth in their pablum.
Of course, there will always be perfectly good adults who refer to cursing as 'potty mouth.'

[PGalt]

Propaganda is being swept aside in The Age of Interactive /Information. Propaganda is one way...or in its more sinister form...set up as a false dichotomy.Those who DO NOT INTERACT with their audience are history. Freedom loving information seekers realize that LIFE IS SHORT, and FREEDOM/TRUTH are different sides of the coin of LIFE.

[FRgal4u]

the CBS liberal B*tches are getting the "next channel" treatment by their viewers..it is about time...I'll watch cbs news again if they put a flaming tire around dan blather's neck..

ever wonder why the two most glum newscasters of this war seeing the ratings drop...

is there ever anything go right in this war for baghdad pete or how about basra dan...

america has voted, get off the anti-america island while you can..i heard the frechies, the germans are hiring..get out while you can baghdad pete and basra dan!!

[SevenofNine]

HA HA HA

TAKE THAT ABC CBS and NBC and don't forget CNN

YOU LOSERS


WAR FOX NEWS

[mombonn]

Memo to the big three - send brokenjaw, peetah, and blather over as latrine specialists, and I'll tune into the 6:30 broadcast for details.

Other than that, cable rules!

[goodnesswins]

Who watches cbsnbcmsnbcabcpbscnn et al?.....they are all

WANKERS

[Mr. Mulliner]

The author deftly tiptoed around FOX like it was a minefield, didn't he?

I was thinking the very same thing. Not much mention about Fox and no real effort to go beyond grabbing for the first explanation that comes along, an explanation that doesn't really explain much.

[Bedford Forrest]

"After 9-11, viewers looked to the network anchormen to help knit the fabric of the nation back together," Mr. Heyward said."

Whatever this pathetic clone is smoking, Dan Blather would love some. What viewers??? Which anchoroids???? No one I know admits to having watched any of the drooling lobotomite anchoroids for the last 20 years. The last time I saw a network anchoroid was when a bunch of sand goblins killed the Israeli wrestlers in Munich - the name Frank Reynolds echoes faintly. Blather, Broken and the Quisling Canadian Pillowbiter are not about knitting "the fabric" of this republic, they are and always have been hell bent on its slow destruction. Anchoroid, chancroid, totally indistinguishable.

[T'wit]

>> viewers are increasingly tuning out the broadcast networks' evening newscasts

Once viewers realize that Baghdad Bob is far more honest than Rather, Jennings and Brokaw -- which takes less than five minutes -- they abandon the networks... never to return, I trust.