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To: Dat
Uh, do you actually watch T.V?

Sure! Mostly news. And I notice that the networks seem to be terribly interested in making profits. That is, they are capitalists. They do worry when ratings fall.

Of course, there's a certain cognitive dissonance here. They moan about the interloper, Fox News, stealing "their" audience. Fox is more "balanced" (i.e., conservative) in its presentation of the news. Viewers seem to like this -- they are "voting with their feet" in droves.

Which means the majors are going to have to take a look at their editorial policies if they want to staunch the flow of viewers heading over to Fox. All the TV majors other than Fox are ideologically invested in "elite progressivism." As capitalists, they find themselves in the position of wanting to make profits; but they can't do that if they aren't satisfying their viewers (the overwhelming majority of which are not elite progressives).

So that means they have to make a choice: quit with the propaganda and stay competitive, or stick with the propaganda and continue to lose market share.

It will be fun to watch them squirm through this "tough choice." Glitzy sets and graphics will not compensate for content that viewers dislike -- when viewers have an alternative. And they do.

79 posted on 01/28/2003 7:01:31 AM PST by betty boop
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To: betty boop; k.trujillo
Not only does betty boop make some good points in her post #79, but my husband pointed out that you will not receive a passing grade on this assignment if you fail to deliver on the teacher's mandate, i.e., prove that there is a conservative bias in the media.

Therefore, I think it prudent that you freely confess and highlight the explosion of conservative talk radio (Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity, Savage Nation), internet news sites (Drudge, NRO, WND, JWR, NewsMax), and conservative chat forums (Free Republic, lucianne). Point out the growing American preference for these, as well as for FOX, which really is more balanced than biased. Emphasize the Liberal Big Media's own admission that these are what America has been hungering for. Substantiate your findings with the numbers, and even use the quotes from Daschle and Gore to prove your point!

While the facts are impossible to refute, namely that the liberal-leaning newspapers still have the largest circulation, as I cited in a previous post, and even on-line those same liberal news sources get more hits, it should be possible to find numbers correlating to the rapid (even alarming!) trend toward conservatism in the information industry.

87 posted on 01/28/2003 8:32:57 AM PST by .30Carbine
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