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James A. Donald:
> > You are making all this crap up.
Eric Cordian
> Each of the stories I cited was reported by multiple news
> outlets.
Multiple pinko liars.
> The Donahue story alone had 12 hits on Google News.
Donahue's abysmal ratings disprove the story that Donahue was
fired for opposing the war.. If you get twelve hits on a story
that is obviously phony, then that shows which views are being
promoted, and which censored, shows the direction of the bias
-- indeed even if the story was not obviously false, the number
of hits that you get on it would also be evidence that it is
obviously false.
If you get twelve hits from major news sources promoting the
claim that pinkos do not get a fair deal on major news sources,
that is pretty good evidence that they get a good deal more
than a fair deal. If you got twelve hits saying he was fired
for his views, the story is self refuting.
> One would hardly make up a story about a court of appeals
> decision.
One can make up an absurd spin on a court of appeals decision.
James A. Donald:
> > Liberals cannot succeed in talk shows because they hate and
> > despise their audience.
Eric Cordian
> You know, I think "conservative" is one of the
> nicest-sounding terms ever invented for "backward prude."
Just as I said.
James A. Donald:
> > He was getting about one quarter the audience of the
> > competion. The nightmare scenario that MSNBC was so
> > alarmed by was that no one was watching him vomit hatred
> > over his audience.
Eric Cordian
> Donahue was doing no worse than other crap on MSNBC which
> wasn't cancelled, and Donahue's ratings had recently risen.
News is supposed to be a ratings anchor, the defining
capability that makes a network a network. Donahue was not
being compared to reruns of Dora the explorer, but to other
people's talk shows, in particular to "The O'Reilly Factor".
Donahue was a distant third in the _cable__news__ratings_, and
the reason for his failure was that he was "out of touch with
the current marketplace" -- polite euphemism for the fact that
he despised his audience.
You can get prime time video news from a major network, cannot
get it from Blockbuster rentals or from most cable channels.
You can get videos from the internet, but you cannot get video
news Thus if a prime time news show gets ratings similar to
"other crap", it is going to be canceled very fast indeed.
And we can tell which way the bias goes, from the fact that
O'Reilly is universally called a right wing, or extreme right
wing, show host, when in reality his purported views are
constructed on the basis of focus groups to be right down the
exact middle of the target demographic. The Fox slogan is
"fair and balanced news", and whether or not it is "fair", it
is certainly balanced -- balanced to be right down the middle
of their target audience -- a policy that must sometimes get in
the way of being fair.
James A. Donald:
> > Sure the press is biased, but there is plenty of stuff
> > that is very far from pro Israel, even on channels that
> > are openly pro Israel, such as Fox.
Eric Cordian
> Let me know when the first station puts the logo "JINSA"
> under Richard Perle and the rest of the pundits we are
> supposed to think are randomly picked objective commentators
> on the Middle East.
I saw a representative of Hamas on some Fox talk show. He was
introduced as such, but they did not put the logo "Hamas baby
killer" under him.
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