CNN Worst Month In Decade - Americans mostly watching Fox News

[trenchfoot]

What a flawed plan. First, you don't need to. Watching Fox doesn't really help 'beat them' all that much, except news shows that debunk them.

Second, watching Fox gives them money and helps them. It's like saying 'liberals, buy a million copies of the book of lies, so you can read them and defeat the author!'

Fox is thrilled to have liberals watching hating them. Hate them some more!

Very good points you've made Craig. For myself, the most exposure I get from FOX is occasionally having my hearing assaulted by a few of their trained parrots at work eloquently ranting FOX talking points verbatim and whining on about how the nation is being destroyed by a black muslim foreign-born POTUS.

Needless to say, I always reply with a "No Shit?" look on my face and agree with them just so I can marvel at how well they've been indoctrinated into the fanatic fold. lol

edit - As for CNN, Nancy Grace is as bad as or worse than the puke purveryors over at FOX. It seems every time I'm channel surfing the cable stations and CNN blips by, Nancy Grace is on with that whiny voice of hers and I get the same revulsive relflex that I do surfing past FOX.

 

[shortylickens]

I'd go to their website more often if it wasnt all fucking videos.
Stripped down text is the easiest way to get info, standard TV spots are too slow.

 

[1prophet]

That is factually incorrect, no matter how much you wish it to be true. Emotional beliefs are not a reasonable substitute for data.



That I agree with. There is at least one scientific study that, as I remember it, showed that TV is an exceptionally effective indoctrination tool, creating an almost hypnotic brain state that makes us unusually receptive to suggestion. On of my pet theories is the decline of the United States is very closely tied to the proliferation of television. But it's just a theory.



For example, that you don't watch TV leads you to rationalize that "everyone else is part of [your] disfunctional fantasyworld also."

🙂

That's no theory, bread and circuses are a way to keep the population at bay so they don't realize how badly they are getting screwed.

Television is the modern circus that the powers that be (corporations) tell you who to vote for, what to believe, and what to buy.

Look at how the media portrays the intellectual, the hard worker, the critical thinker, as opposed to the ball player, rock/rap star, movie star,

Who wants to be an intellectual, nerd, geek, scientist, etc. when they be the hero ball player, rock/rap star, movie star according to television.

 

[1prophet]

Young people do not want to be programmed and told what is reality from a centralized source that has nothing to do with how real life culture acts, look at where TV got the boomers by attempting to assimilate to the TV culture they grew up being told they should be like. They turned into a generation of total apathetic hypocrite phonies for the most part.

Not surprising seeing where they got their cultural cues from in this society for so long.

When TeeVee goes the way of the retiree boomers the USA will be a MUCH more sane place without all the corporate entertainment signal to noise ratio mindscrewing people.

Sorry but young people are already programmed when too busy mom uses the television as a baby sitter, by the time they are old enough to make decisions on watching or not watching tv the damage is already done.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Who the hell watches Hannity?!

Colmes?

 

[Thebobo]

I do not even know anyone under 50 who watch/own a TeeVee. Do you live in a retirement home or something?

Such a terrible narrow 20th century format for media. Its all brainwash crap and useless jingles for shit you dont need, no idea how people watch that stuff, much less think it represents America in 2012.

Lol no not a retirement home, just a normal suburban house. I mostly agree with you on the mindless crap, 99% of it is dung. But there are the interseting shows on the Smithsonian channel, Reseach channel, PBS has frontline, Nature and sometimes there is even some (not much these days) history on the History channel and Science on the Science channel 🙄

 

[xj0hnx]

In reality yes, only 3% or so of America watches TV (mainly retirees). Obviously in places where there is little else to do in real life or people are too old to get out/who have no friends.

Seriously, did you pull this out of your ass, or did you have to borrow a couple of others?

 

[a777pilot]

It's sad but the era of news investigated and reported, i.e.,

• Who is it about?
• What happened?
• Where did it take place?
• When did it take place?
• Why did it happen?

by actual non-political journalists is gone.

 

[ElFenix]

The population of the USA was estimated at one time to be about 300 Mil.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
313,847,465 (July 2012 est.)

So what the hell are these number?
NBC news - 8.2 million
ABC news - 7.3 million
CBS news - 5.8 million

This means that only 3% of the public whatch these network news channels!

This data is a joke???

ratings are nearly always reported by households, not by individuals. there are 114.1 million tv households in the US.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...elsen-reports/2012/05/03/gIQAdNDyzT_blog.html

 

[hal2kilo]

I'd wager a significant portion of those are watching FOX because: "You must know your enemy to defeat him." 😉

edit - And a bunch of others watch FOX the same way they'd watch an episode of The Jerrry Springer Show.

Yep, I usually force myself to watch Fox News Sunday everyweek. I keep soft objects around to throw at the TV.