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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:38 AM Nov 2018

Get this: $4.988 BILLION total revenue for MSNBC CNN and FOX in 2017 & that wasn't a campaign year

Reading my Vanity Fair which arrived yesterday....article on Trump and Cable Madness...Get this: $4.988 BILLION..total revenue for MSNBC CNN and FOX in 2017..geez..they haven't calculated 2018 yet..which will include campaign ads....but here are a couple stats for this year...

Number of Weeks Rachel beat Hannity 2018 ...3

Number of Weeks MSNBC beat FOX in ratings 2018....1

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Get this: $4.988 BILLION total revenue for MSNBC CNN and FOX in 2017 & that wasn't a campaign year (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Nov 2018 OP

Which is why they air combative punditry moreso than actual news Roland99 Nov 2018 #1

when I tell the college kids jodymarie aimee Nov 2018 #2

This crap now just leads to alarmism based on pure speculation Roland99 Nov 2018 #3

There's money in fascism sharedvalues Nov 2018 #4

False equivalency in action. Not a penny from us for 10 years. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2018 #5

Cable news is small potatoes. GeorgeGist Nov 2018 #6

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

1. Which is why they air combative punditry moreso than actual news

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:44 AM

Nov 2018

Gotta keep those ratings up

We did fine for a looong time without 24 hr “news”

Jon Stewart was SO right years ago when he blasted Fucker and (Begala?) re: punditry

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)

2. when I tell the college kids

Reply to Roland99 (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:48 AM

Nov 2018

we had Walter Cronkite/Huntley Brinkley on for 1/2 hr at suppertime, that WAS our news, period...they don't believe me....and it was just reported..words were read.... not show bizzed up...

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

3. This crap now just leads to alarmism based on pure speculation

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:52 AM

Nov 2018

For example, take a mass shooting.

(Sad I can use that phrase and it’s not shocking event)

Now, within minutes, pundits and “journalists” regurgitate what any witness or twitter feed says happened, regardless of its veracity

Before 24hr news, by the time the story hit its second day most everything WAS known and we’d get an accurate report

Now the accurate report is lost in the noise of everyone bickering back and forth about was shooter white or Muslim or Dem or rep when that shit doesn’t really matter at all!