02-05-2020, 11:36 AM
** 05-Feb-2020 World View: Fox News vs mainstream media
Sorry, I can't tell you that since I don't watch Fox and Friends. I'm
interested in news, not in fatuous political nonsense.
There was a time when I watched CNN almost 24 hours a day, but that
was before they turned into a sewer.
I try to watch MS-NBC for a while every day. NBC News used to be a
legitimate news operation, and there are still occasional remnants of
it on MS-NBC. I make a point of watching Hallie Jackson at 10 am ET.
I've found that her show is 75% fatuous nonsense and 25% news, and I
watch it for the 25% news.
This discussion gives me an opportunity to repeat and update stuff
I've written before about Fox News vs the mainstream media.
I've been following this issue off and on since around 2005. As I've
written in the past:
That's why Fox News consistently gets around 50% of the audience,
while all the other stations compete for the other 50%.
Furthermore, since Fox has no effective competition, it can afford to
be "fair and balanced," while all the others have to compete with one
another to be as loony left as possible.
So Fox News channel is definitely right of center, but also has any
number of regular moderate left-wing commentators, including Mara
Liasson, Juan Williams, Donna Brazile and Mary Harf.
If all you watch is CNN and MS-NBC, then you're only hearing the loony
news, and you owe it to your own intellectual honesty to balance it in
some way. There are two shows that you might consider.
The best general newscast on tv today is the 6-7pm newscast on FNC,
currently called "Special Report With Bret Baier." Both Bret Baier
and Martha MacCallum (who comes on at 7 pm) are right of center, but
give a great deal of time to "fair and balanced coverage" of
Democrats.
The best hard news analysis show is Hannity at 9 pm. Noone would ever
call Hannity "balanced." He is definitely right of center. But he's
very much highly analytical and not loony right. (I would say that
Tucker Carlson, at 8 pm ET, is loony right.)
I started watching Hannity regularly around a year or two ago as
counterweights to the daily nonsense from Adam Schiff and others who
made one "explosive" revelation after another, every day, and every
single one turned out to be a lie and a fabrication. The Mueller
report eventually proved that Schiff's "explosive" revelations were
all lies, but Hannity showed the same thing every day.
A good example of Hannity's show is that he frequently had reports
from John Solomon at The Hill. Solomon actually went to Ukraine and
got the proof of Schiff's daily lies, reporting on what was really
going on with Burisma and Ukraine's politics. Solomon himself began
getting attacked by the left-wing media because he was too effective,
and was forcing Schiff to change his story. It was really an amazing
situation.
So you have a choice. If you want to just believe Schiff's crap, then
just listen to CNN and MS-NBC and revel in the sewer. If you'd like
to see the counter-analysis, and find out what's really going on, the
only place you can get it every day is Hannity.
(02-03-2020, 12:39 PM)David Horn Wrote: > Forget Fox Business Network, and tell me what was playing on the
> Fox Network: do you watch Fox and Friends?. Of course the
> business networks focused on business issues. The political
> networks focus on politics. I assume their viewers expect that in
> both cases.
Sorry, I can't tell you that since I don't watch Fox and Friends. I'm
interested in news, not in fatuous political nonsense.
There was a time when I watched CNN almost 24 hours a day, but that
was before they turned into a sewer.
I try to watch MS-NBC for a while every day. NBC News used to be a
legitimate news operation, and there are still occasional remnants of
it on MS-NBC. I make a point of watching Hallie Jackson at 10 am ET.
I've found that her show is 75% fatuous nonsense and 25% news, and I
watch it for the 25% news.
This discussion gives me an opportunity to repeat and update stuff
I've written before about Fox News vs the mainstream media.
I've been following this issue off and on since around 2005. As I've
written in the past:
- Half the country is left of center and half the country is
right of center. If you don't believe this, then consider that this
is the definition of the word "center."
- All the mainstream media -- CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, BBC,
Al-Jazeera -- all of them are left of center. That means they're all
competing with each other for 50% of the national audience.
- Only FNC is right of center. That means that FNC essentially has
no competition whatsoever for 50% of the national audience.
That's why Fox News consistently gets around 50% of the audience,
while all the other stations compete for the other 50%.
Furthermore, since Fox has no effective competition, it can afford to
be "fair and balanced," while all the others have to compete with one
another to be as loony left as possible.
So Fox News channel is definitely right of center, but also has any
number of regular moderate left-wing commentators, including Mara
Liasson, Juan Williams, Donna Brazile and Mary Harf.
If all you watch is CNN and MS-NBC, then you're only hearing the loony
news, and you owe it to your own intellectual honesty to balance it in
some way. There are two shows that you might consider.
The best general newscast on tv today is the 6-7pm newscast on FNC,
currently called "Special Report With Bret Baier." Both Bret Baier
and Martha MacCallum (who comes on at 7 pm) are right of center, but
give a great deal of time to "fair and balanced coverage" of
Democrats.
The best hard news analysis show is Hannity at 9 pm. Noone would ever
call Hannity "balanced." He is definitely right of center. But he's
very much highly analytical and not loony right. (I would say that
Tucker Carlson, at 8 pm ET, is loony right.)
I started watching Hannity regularly around a year or two ago as
counterweights to the daily nonsense from Adam Schiff and others who
made one "explosive" revelation after another, every day, and every
single one turned out to be a lie and a fabrication. The Mueller
report eventually proved that Schiff's "explosive" revelations were
all lies, but Hannity showed the same thing every day.
A good example of Hannity's show is that he frequently had reports
from John Solomon at The Hill. Solomon actually went to Ukraine and
got the proof of Schiff's daily lies, reporting on what was really
going on with Burisma and Ukraine's politics. Solomon himself began
getting attacked by the left-wing media because he was too effective,
and was forcing Schiff to change his story. It was really an amazing
situation.
So you have a choice. If you want to just believe Schiff's crap, then
just listen to CNN and MS-NBC and revel in the sewer. If you'd like
to see the counter-analysis, and find out what's really going on, the
only place you can get it every day is Hannity.
Quote:> "Fox News Channel Dominates Weekly Cable Ratings Charts
> Network's Impeachment coverage helps generate weekly primetime,
> total day wins
> R. Thomas Umstead Feb 4, 2020
> Fox News Channel was the most watched cable network last week as
> its Impeachment coverage helped the network generate strong
> ratings both in primetime and total day.
> Fox News -- bolstered by record performances by series Tucker
> Carlson Tonight and The Ingraham Angle, averaged 3.3 million
> viewers in primetime during the week of Jan. 27 through Feb. 2,
> according to Nielsen. MSNBC was a distant second with 1.5 million,
> followed by ESPN with 1.2 million viewers.
> HGTV finished fourth with 1.1 million viewers and CNN rounded out
> the top five with 1 million viewers.
> On the total day front, Fox News --bolstered by its coverage of
> Donald Trump's Impeachment trial -- generated its best week since
> January 2017, averaging 2 million viewers and easily outdistancing
> MSNBC, CNN, HGTV and ESPN, according to Nielsen."
> https://www.multichannel.com/news/fox-ne...ngs-charts
