--- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > The one saving grace of Fox News is that only a tiny > > percentage of people watch it, 3-something million at > > most. Of course, that's more than the other cable news > > channels, but it's still not all that significant > > overall. News and political junkies tend to forget that > > and talk about it as if it's a lot more influential > > than it really is. > > > In our household Fox news is on periodically. On the rare occasions > when I watch, or have the remote, I will see what is on CNN, and > typically I'm not too impressed. There is something about Wolf Blitzer > I cannot stomach. I really don't know any of the other CNN > personalities. On rarer occassions I may catch Rachael Maddow, or Keith > Oberman, but I don't find too much of interest there either. But it > is the conservatives shows that are winning the ratings on both radio > and TV, but I guess, as you say, put in perspective, it is not as > significant as it might seem to be.>
They are not winning the ratings on TV. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, BBC, etc. -- which Fox pundits call 'left wing media' -- combined, get FAR bigger ratings than the lone far-right Fox News. Its just that there are more choices among the center and left wing TV News. Combined they far outweigh the lone neocon Fox News. I don't know about Radio. In Fall 2008, NPR programming reached a record 27.5 million people weekly, according to Arbitron ratings figures. NPR stations reach 32.7 million listeners overall. In a Harris poll conducted in 2005, NPR was voted the most trusted news source in the U.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio> As of of 2006, The Rush Limbaugh Show had a minimum weekly audience of 13.5 million listeners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#The_Rush_Limbaugh_Show <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#The_Rush_Limbaugh_Show> OffWorld
