Tweety, cable news, and the meaning of insignificant

[DainBramaged]

25-54 demographic

5pm: Gibson: 201,000 / Blitzer: 80,000 / Hardball: 93,000 / Kudlow: 73,000

7pm: Shep: 433,000 / Blitzer: 115,000 / Hardball: 145,000 / Showbiz: 86,000 / On The Money: 65,000

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser /

As I've said so many times here, I can get more people to listen to me using a bullhorn on 5th Avenue in NYC than Tweety has watching his cable show. Why any of us think cable news means anything is beyond me. Less than 500,000 viewers at 5PM and less than 850,000 at 7PM on all of the cable news(?) shows.

Who are we kidding? Why do we place so much value on their words? No one except the hardcore are listening. Wheel of Fortune does over 6,000,000 households in a single half hour each night.

We need to redirect our energies.

[valerief]

1. Maybe Wheel of Fortune could use some key

phrases and names to create buzz about real issues the MSM doesn't cover.

Don't mind me. Just daydreaming.

[salin]

2. heh - maybe we all need to audition and get on wheel of fortune

and then do "subtle product placement" per our wardrobe with anti-bush/anti-GOP phrases. ;-)

[bpilgrim]

3. It's not just tweety

it's MOST american M$M (specially radio)

fyi

peace

[gordianot]

4. Those numbers could be turned around if someone would tell the truth.

The sponsors of these shows do not want the truth to be told and are willing to take in revenue loss. In other words they are supporting the GOP directly by allowing the news to be slanted. With potential revenue loss in the news they lower their taxes and act as shills for the criminals that are stealing our remaining Constitutional rights.

[vi5]

5. BUT OMG! TWEETY IS BEING SUCH A BUSHCO WHORE SHILL!!!

Honestly what would we do on this board without such lucid and informative socio-political insights as posted here daily. "OMG......TWEETY IS SPINNING RNC CRAP!!!!" Yeah, fucking great. And in other news, the sky is blue.

I do think that when Tweety and Russert and the like make their appearances on the Today show that is more troubling because that gives them a larger audience.

But the people on here who get upset when someone who has an audience of less than .5% of the american population says something stupid or spouts RNC talking points, it's more than a bit silly and misplaced. On top of that, I guarantee that of those already small audiences, 95% of the people watching already have their minds made up how they feel and are just looking for either validation or a reason to get upset. Nobody watches those shows to become informed.

[AX10]

7. NBC is shit!

period.

[chaumont58]

6. I've thought along similar lines for sometime

In '98, during the height of the Clinton impeachment imbroglio, cable news shows ran 'the sky is falling, the sky is falling' stories every night. In the end, a repuke House impeached him, but all the bullshit news shows didn't move any Senate Dems and Clinton popularity in the national polls was still much higher than chimpie has now.
I would like to see regional tv ratings to see where the talking heads have any viewers at all. I think it would be possible to visit towns in California's Central Valley where there are NO viewers of Tweety's show. IMHO, a large portion of his viewers are inside the beltway, sort of the whores telling each other what lies they heard from the RNC today.

[DainBramaged]

8. Facts is facts, and Tweety has no cloth...err viewers