Still one must be able to translate the truth from the bull crap, and all of them have bull crap from time to time, so what's your point ? I don't need you to help me know that everything on TV news or radio might not be above and beyond reproach, because I already know this, and so should you. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't need instructions....Not even remotely close. More like the opposite actually. Fox Noise is a cable channel.
Where do you come up with this degree of malarkey?
But you are spot-on correct that the unwashed enjoy being misled. They'd rather hear what they want to hear than reality.
The unwashed are the ONLY ones still watching network news. They can't afford cable or so they say because it's not within their welfare income budget. Somehow, some way they can afford 60 inch HDTVs, hair extensions, Sak's 5th Avenue clothing/jewelry and hot cahs with 22 inch rims. This, on top of section 8 housing, donated food supplementing their food stamps and tickets to any rap concert.
Meanwhile...network news ratings are so low that consideration was given to discontinue it a few years back.
This is the most blatantly bullshittingly clueless post I've read all day. Not just for the avalanche of blanket stereotypes -- that was entertaining enough-- but then the abject ignorance about broadcast ratings continues on the heels of the opening canard imagining a cable channel outdrawing any three alphabets...
Audience ratings exist for exactly one purpose, and that is to sell advertising. It measures how many eyeballs are tuned in to your bullshit, rather than somebody else's bullshit, so that if your bullshit numbers are higher you can charge more. Ratings aren't going anywhere as long as there's commercialism in broadcasting.
News isn't either, because broadcast licenses are awarded on the basis that the broadcaster serve its community "in the public interest, convenience and necessity". To that end it's expected to present some kind of content of interest and utility to the general public. That's why you'll see some station broadcasting a city council meeting at 4am when there's nobody watching -- it's a way they can go back to the FCC at license renewal time and go "see? we broadcast city council meetings, ain't we a public service!?" -- without of course losing the money they can make in a better time slot running some abjectly mindless "reality" show about people stranded on an island forced to eat bugs because it sells.
News doesn't sell. News (real news) has never sold and never will, because it's dry, unemotional, cold facts. Alphabet news like we see at 6pm has always been subsidized by the shlock programming that follows it. News (real news) is expensive. You need reporters flying around the world carrying satellite phones and camera crews and uplink vans. You need foreign bureaus. That takes serious cash. News (real news) programs have never been engineered or expected to make money (ratings). That's not their purpose. Their purpose is to look good on the license application.
None of which means squat about Fox, because in spite of its name what Fox Noise does isn't news --- it's News Theater. News Theater sells, where news (real) doesn't. And it's way cheaper --- you don't need the camera crews and the vans and the reporters flying around; you just plunk talking heads in a studio and have them talk about the news, with a slant on it. Now you've got the emotional hook. You have them pound on the table (if they're male) or wear a short skirt (if they're female), make sure they talk about people rather than policy, and you have another one. You run suggestive chyrons across the bottom of the screen and you have still another. That's the only way you make money and have anything to do with "news" - by telling the audience that tonight's "news" (theater) is that there are vast conspiratorial monsters out there to kill you and we'll tell you who they are after, of course, these messages from our sponsors, which is what we're really here for.
And to their discredit plenty of Fox's competitors (yes competitors, because it's all about who can sell the most ads) have followed them down the same hole. Which also re-confirms what the objective is. News (real news) isn't competitive; it's information everybody needs. When you see competition, it's exactly because somebody's making money on it.
That post wasn't even addressed to you -- it was to Porker. And his uninformed fantasies on what ratings are. That's the whole point of all that.
Try to keep up willya? The names are on the posts.
