Hey, the antics are keeping us watching FNC so whatever works.
Shep and Geraldo finally cost Fox this viewer, the day New Orleans flooded. For the last six months or so, they seem to have been trying to solidify their attainment of #1 status by emulating those they overcame, forgetting the fact that their rise resulted from offering an alternative.
I watch cable news for news. When FNC began letting the "personalities" take over, I began looking around. When the personalities gave up all pretense of reporting in their "look at me" zeal become the news, I gave up. From what I'm reading on this thread, Shep, Geraldo, and Greta haven't given up their quest for attention at any cost, so they'll do without mine.
I still watch Brit Hume's show every weekday; ironically, the only FNC program still providing any real news is an hour set aside for commentary and opinion.
I get up-to-the-minute news from FR and elsewhere on the Internet, and I have battery-powered radios for local emergencies.
I'm concerned about Rita, as I was about Katrina, but I want current "big picture" news of such events. During news events of this magnitude and effect, I can't muster even passing interest in whether the winds at some given place can topple Geraldo again, or in whether Shep's hats blow off the same way this mere mortal's would if I stood in the same wind. Most of us are aware that the approach of a hurricane is typically accompanied by strong winds, and I'm not sure Fox's advertisers can survive on the patronage of those who aren't... So she and her fans won't feel left out, I'll mention another fact Fox will ignore: I'll not give Greta the opportunity to set me off again by bringing out Natalie Holloway's exploited mother in raingear and a backwards ballcap, so Greta's advertisers are missing opportunities, too...
There. Anyone not offended? Sorry; my A/C's out, there's no hint of a breeze here, it's still ninety-two degrees at my desk, Mama's out having a good time at ACLFest with the kids and the other hippies, Austin's not expecting looters worthy of this bellyfull of beer and my Hi-Power, and I'm trying very hard to find things to be p!$$ed about that don't smack of self-pity. What? Oh. Okay, I'll try again tomorrow...