Fox News Keeps Wartime Coverage Lead

AP ^ | 3-25-2003 | DAVID BAUDER

[nutmeg]

Fox News rules! They've been doing a first rate job reporting on the war. Everything I've seen on CNN so far is all gloom and doom... always focusing on the negative. And it is beyond me that anyone can bear to look and listen to Aaron Brown and Judy Woodruff for more than five seconds. Ugh!

[185JHP]

Linda Vester is operating at a high level. Linda & Shep care anout what's happening - it's apparent in their behavior.

[Zon]

CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson downplayed Fox's ratings advantage, saying Nielsen shows that more people at least sample some of CNN's coverage during the day. Fox's ratings are higher because its viewers watch for a longer time.

She may have thought she was down playing it. What it says is that people click their remote to CNN and they're compelled to quickly leave. Whereas when they click their remote to Fox they're compelled to stay and watch.

[Timesink]

Fox News has been captioned 24/7 since the liberation began. They are the ONLY news channel to do so. Hopefully they have gained some deaf viewers as a result of this.

Aren't all channels going to be required to do this 24/7 for live and newly-taped programs after a certain upcoming date?

[WKB]

No dice. If you can't spell, you can't post here. :)

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[mware]

I understand that Fox News is the channel of choice of the military that have been deployed to the region.

[Vol2727]

Aren't all channels going to be required to do this 24/7 for live and newly-taped programs after a certain upcoming date?

I have not heard this anywhere. Can you tell me where you heard this and I'll look into it.

Keep emailing them. Bombard them. Ping everyone!

Here's what I sent:

I'm hoping you will bring attention to this to the higher ups of the news channel. Okay, I have been emailing Fox News for quite a while now asking and begging them to start close captioning their news coverage non-stop 24/7. I never got any kind of answer nor any action taken.

BUT....since the liberation of the Iraqis began, Fox News was the ONLY news channel to caption their news coverage 24/7, that is, UNTIL last night (3/25) at 11 pm. A bunch of us had emailed our thanks to Fox News for the non stop captioning and asking them to keep it up. Now, I feel like our emails went unheeded. I'm frustrated to no end. I don't know what else to do. I've tried calling to talk to a live person but always fail to do so.

Here's something that doesn't make any sense to me. Fox News is the top rated news network. MSNBC is DEAD last in the ratings. BUT MSNBC captions more than Fox News does. How can that be? You'd think Fox News would have the means and the money to provide 24/7 captioning. Just imagine Fox News being the only news channel to provide captioning 24/7, you would blow away the competition even more by drawing more deaf viewers. You see, The Weather Channel made news in deaf history by being the first and ONLY station to provide 24/7 captioning. It was advertised in the deaf newspapers all over the country. Fox News could break huge barriers in doing this. You all have been bold these last few years. Why not be a little bolder and venture a little further by providing 24/7 captioning?

Fair and Balanced? Yes as far as the news reporting and No as far as captioning.

We Report and You Decide? How the heck can we decide if the news is not captioned full-time?

Maybe it's time for Fox News to live up to its slogans.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is very important to many of us and we're simply unable to keep up with it without nonstop captioning.

I would recommend that when (not if) Fox News does provide 24/7, that you all advertise it like crazy on air. You will definitely gain deaf viewers. Don't let them be stuck to watching MSNBC or CNN.

Thank you,

xxxxx xxxxx

Knoxville, Tn

C'mon everyone. Help out a fellow FReeper. Thanks!!

[ladtx]

...Nielsen shows that more people at least sample some of CNN's coverage during the day."

I only "sample" it when FNC is on commercial break or repeating something I've seen before.

[FreedomPoster]

I posted this on the Off-Topic forum of a car board I'm on, where there have been some moderately heated political discussions in recent weeks.

I prefaced it with the statement "This will annoy all the usual suspects".

It did. ;-)
And several who hadn't been in on any of the discussions chimed in supporting FNC and the bias of ABCNNBCBS.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[ewing]

MS/PMS NBC has been surpirisngly good so far as well, (although probably no one is watching Peter Arnett except 20 FR news junkies)

[nutmeg]

ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ping list.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this good news.

If every home had Fox News, the lead would be incredible.

The cable companies who prevent Fox News from being shown on their cable should be boycotted. The way to boycott is to sign up for Dish, cancel your cable. Then send a letter to the board of the cable company telling them that they are losing business by being in bed with the losers of life.

Fox's coverage with Sky News and their embedden reporters is making ABCNNBCBS and the maggote infested fish wraps like the NY Slimes irrelevant when it comes to real news.

[Aquinasfan]

Through the first five days of the war, Fox News Channel has averaged 4.16 million viewers each day to CNN's 3.74 million.

It's over for CNN here in the US, and I'm loving it.

[RummyChick]

if they would include the number of military watching fnc the numbers would skyrocket

[Grampa Dave]

Our military people know why they watch Fox News. We know why we watch Fox News. Hopefully, this war will get Fox News a whole lot new loyal viewers.

[Grampa Dave]

How will Helen Thomas's bastard son, Peter Jennings spin this news tonight?

[GrandMoM]

BUMP

[mickie]

Did you see him just now on O'Reilly?

WE LOVE YOU COL. DAVID HUNT.

[Political Junkie Too]

Many hotels don't carry Fox, either. When traveling to a city, one should ask the hotel if they carry FNC before confirming their reservation, and if they don't carry FNC then find another hotel and tell them why you aren't booking there.

-PJ