"Strident demagoguery may sell for a short period of time, but it has little staying power. In contrast, the talking head shows on Fox and CNN deal with dissent in a much more mature manner, and usually features more of it than MSNBC prime-time shows do. For that matter, Morning Joe has a much different dynamic than the channel’s prime-time shows, and it’s thriving."
MSNBC ratings crater as NBC looks for new direction http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/01/msnbc-ratings-crater-as-nbc-looks-for-new-direction/ http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/01/msnbc-ratings-crater-as-nbc-looks-for-new-direction/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : I've been in the arts all my life. I know exactly how to manipulate an audience. FOX News a joke in the US. They call their network "fair and balanced" which is a real laugh. It's old Rupert's pet project and fair removed from the way that the FOX entertainment outlets are run. FFL used to have an Emmy award winning editor posting. He mentioned that of the US TV networks that FOX was the easiest to work with. I recalled an Esquire interview with Rupert Murdoch published in the 1990s where they asked him about the content of his shows and he said he didn't care as long as they made money. What Brand was doing was no different than a lot of news analysts have done critiquing FOX News. In fact there is a documentary about it called "OutFoxed!" by Robert Greenwald: https://youtu.be/P74oHhU5MDk https://youtu.be/P74oHhU5MDk There are even right wingers who dislike FOX News as being just an arm of the status quo. On 03/31/2015 06:06 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Re "Fox manipulation of the audience": Yes, we know that the media manipulates the audience. I just hope that you see that ALL the different media outlets - TV channels, cinema, newspapers, mags - manipulate their consumers. The thing is, I always get twitchy when people attack one particular organisation (not that I've ever seen Fox News). It's as if they imagine that their own preferred source of propaganda is reliable and objective. Well, it isn't. Here in the UK I always read The Spectator mag (right-wing) and The New Statesman mag (left-wing) every week. That way both hemispheres of my brain are balanced out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I watched the entire video. Brand pointed out the Fox manipulation of the audience. IOW, status quo good, the public bad. I applaud that. And since when does capitalism mean liberal democracy? In the US it means a bunch of thugs who run big companies and screw the public. Liberal democracy? My ass. On 03/31/2015 05:09 PM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> mailto:LEnglish5@... wrote : That's it? That's all you got out of this video? "Blame fox?" I got the usual overdose of Russell Brand's narcissism. His manic presentation does no one any favours. Do you really (I mean *really*) buy the idea that "capitalism" (aka liberal democracy) is turning people into crackpots who willingly terrorize and murder innocent people, including children? Ask your friends and neighbours what they think of the outrage. They'll react with disgust. Why should they react like that? Why haven't they been infected with the Lubitz curse? Because they get on with their lives and engage with the society around them and try and make use of the opportunities on offer to do something positive for themselves and their families. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> mailto:s3raphita@... wrote : The loony Brand blames Fox News for the tragedy . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCREVmaRaeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCREVmaRaeg
