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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction@Oct 11 2004, 01:33 PM
And I don't see what ratings have to do with anything. Jerry Springer gets good ratings, as do gossip shows and other forms of cheesy entertainment.
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Ratings have everything to do with it.
If FoxNews only showed completely one sided, highly slanted, pro right wing reports, commentators and news then why would a country split slightly to the left of 50/50 make it a ratings giant over CNN and NBC cable combined?
That doesn't add up.
I can buy some curiosity from the left from time to time, but not to the point that they drive up ratings.
Fox is different. I'll give you that, but maybe, just maybe between the unpalpable right wing screamers they are serving up a verion of the news that other media in the U.S. is fearful of providing.