Fox News ratings speak for themselves: so what are smart people watching?

[alp227]

We live in highly publicized political times, where networks, publications, blogs, podcasts, tweets and more feed us a daily stream of information revolving around the state of our country and its place in the world.

One such entity: Fox News, the bastion of Right-wing conservative media that has steadily increased its viewership and following since the early days of the G.W. Bush Presidency (what with all of its diplomatic controversy in dire need of positive spin in the public eye and all).

The “Fair and Balanced” network, ironically home to strictly-conservative-only pundits such as Hannity, Beck, O’Reilly, Dobbs, Ingraham, Morris and more recently Palin and Huckabee, enjoys overwhelming ratings for its nightly “news” programs when compared to competitor networks like CNN, MSNBC and CBS as well as American audiences of internationally-based BBC and Associated Press (AP).

A recent ratings analysis by Media Bistro (and subsequently lauded by conservative blog Newsbusters.org – that oh-so-credible watchdog of media bias that simply ignores its own anti-progressive slant and abhorrence to history) shows how Fox is seemingly trampling the competition amongst American audiences, particularly in the political arena.

But with the state of media and entertainment reflecting our educational mindset in this country being what it is, how reputable are high ratings? While I am not arguing against Fox’s ratings-dominance, I am also not surprised. Why? Because sometimes (most times) the loudest, most sensational voices, while disregarding reason and accountability, draw the biggest crowds.

full: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/07/24/fox-news-ratings-speak-for-themselves-so-what-are-smart-people-watching/

The Media bistro report: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/07/24/fox-news-ratings-speak-for-themselves-so-what-are-smart-people-watching/

[FreakinDJ]

1. ABF - Anything But Fux

FUX isn't even in the running

“NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” was #1 again, with #2 ABC “World News with Diane Sawyer” cutting its gaps with “Nightly” in both Total Viewers (-52% / 349,000 vs. 725,000 million) and A25-54 viewers (-4% / 374,000 vs. 390,000) compared to last year. Thursday’s “World News” was the #1 evening newscast, outperforming “Nightly” by 106,000 Total
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/evening-news-ratings-week-of-july-4_b75977

[Sal Minella]

2. The smart people I know don't have a TV at all. n/t

[mwooldri]

3. Fox News (Entertainment). The TV equivalent of the News of the World. nt

[Cool Logic]

4. I believe the amount of influence Fox News has is overblown.

There are ratings in another post that show NBC, ABC and others have higher ratings.

The audience for cable/sat is much smaller than that of the Network News Agencies. This smaller audience off-sets their ratings lead on cable.

[Native]

5. People of low and average intelligence significantly outnumber those of higher intelligence -

that's why I'm not surprised at this.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. they breed faster...

"Idiocracy" isn't far off.

on edit: It would be cool, though, to see the president addressing congress and telling them to "Sit their monkey asses down"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFyUvlfZ8j0

South Carolina, what's up :)

[HockeyMom]

6. They aren't watching TV at all

They are on the Net. You can get far more up to the minute news on this than on TV, and without bias.