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The Free-Market's Solution to Media Bias: FOX News

Great article! Excerpt:

Obviously, Goldberg is no longer with CBS. His career's death knell sounded when he wrote a Wall Street Journal editorial exposing shameless media hypocrisy, arrogance and bias back in 1996. That tells us just how appreciative the media elite are of free speech and differences of opinion.

What's the solution to major media bias? The free market is taking care of it. According to the Nielsen ratings, in the 1979-80 season, 75 percent of all television sets turned on in the early evening were set to ABC, NBC or CBS news. Today, their audience share has fallen to 43 percent. When Walter Cronkite turned over the CBS Evening News to Dan Rather, it was in first place. Now CBS is in last place, having lost half of its ratings. Americans are responding to major media bias and dishonesty by voting with their remote controls, and a beneficiary has been FOX News, whose motto is "fair and balanced."


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9 posted on 12/29/2001 12:15:16 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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Thank you for the ping. I do appreciate it.

Do you think the mainstream media will ever figure it out? And they think we are stupid. Amazing!

TC

18 posted on 12/29/2001 12:18:22 AM PST by I_be_tc
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Thanks for the heads up!
20 posted on 12/29/2001 8:22:45 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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