Thursday, December 30, 2010
PERSPECTIVE
When we bemoan the fabrications of the hugely successful (by comparison) Fox Network, we forget some basics.
Here is a neat analysis that shows that Fox has some glaring holes in its numbers. It mostly good because CNN and MSNBC are so bad.
I sat on a gym bike for about six months watching CNN and the financial and conservative CNBC which is actually light hearted and funny. Balanced as well, most of the time. But financials. No one watches it.
CNN is a wasteland. Its morning news show with John Roberts and Kiran Chatry is a disaster of small talk and dumb reporting. Roberts seems mostly asleep at the wheel. Someone writes their questions for them and often they are at a loss to follow up or even get the fucking question right.
It is also horribly late with a lot of its news. I have seen stuff on the internet a day before they pick it up. Two days.
I moved from the bikes away from the teevee mostly for the recumbent bike exercise. And, I couldn't take it anymore from the formerly formidable CNN.
So one has to allow for the fact that Fox wins on the failure of CNN to attract anyone who is interested in news.
And so on.
The networks still rule on news. Yea!
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