Ernie :
One thing I can count on from an Apple marketeer is 100%
objective analysis
of Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Well, OK, I have my issues with MS also, but setting that
aside, I do remember,
vaguely or not, the launch of MSNBC, and at the time the
expressed ambition
was to make the network an industry leader. Now look at
it, a laughing stock.
I passed along a study some months ago, maybe a year or
more ago, about how
MSNBC had gone from a Fox-like mix, but reversed ( 65 -
35 L instead of R )
to what it is now, 90-10 Bolshevik, and ratings in the
tank. Back in the beginning
MSNBC , while still lagging, was nonetheless competitive.
Why did the network allow its ratings to slide so
horribly ?
Why, too, has Gates been so unconcerned ? After all, if
you or I or most of us, had
our very own TV channel, would we let it fall apart ?
Would anyone ?
Well, "religion" can cloud one's judgement. Look at the
3 major networks,
each headed by true believers in The Holy Church of
Political Correctness,
and their slides keep on keepin' on, no end in sight. So
that seems to explain
part of it. But what about rational market theory ?
The irrationality at CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, and also ( but
not as bad ) CNN
persists, year after year. Where is the correction ?
What does this say about rational market theory ?
Billy
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In a message dated 9/28/2010 1:01:43 P.M. Pacific
Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hi Billy,
Question : Is Bill Gates so completely off
his rocker, or so completely now devoted
to becoming the next Mother Theresa, that
he simply doesn't care what happens
at MSNBC ? For someone who once was cozy
with Newt, how could Gates
have let his TV network self-destruct by
becoming a Left-wing looney-bin channel ?
Just thought I'd ask
Billy
Um, what made you think Bill Gates ever cared
about MSNBC? It was a weird business deal that let
them use the name, nothing that Microsoft ever had a
major stake in.
I could point out that Microsoft has never really
cared about what products their name appeared on, or
that Bill Gates doesn't even care that Microsoft
itself is self-destructting, but that would be rude.
:-)
E
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posted on Hot Air
Sept 27
More people are getting their news about
the upcoming election from cable
television than any other source, and from
Fox News more than any other cable
channel, according to a POLITICO/George
Washington University Battleground Poll
released Monday.
The poll found that 81 percent of those
polled get their news about the midterm
elections from cable channels, like Fox
News, CNN, MSNBC, or their websites,
compared with 71 percent from national
network news channels, such as ABC, NBC or
CBS, and their websites.
Among cable news channels, Fox was the
clear winner, with 42 percent of
respondents saying it is their main
source, compared with 30 percent who cited
CNN and 12 percent who rely on MSNBC.
How did it get to this state? After all,
NBC had a long history in television news,
starting decades before CNN and even longer
than Fox. Its partnership with Microsoft
should have given the cable news network a
distinct advantage in the New Media world.
Their roster of news anchors, present and
future, should have immediately challenged
CNN for primacy and marginalized Fox, who [
which ] may have had cash but relatively
fewer newsgathering resources in the US when
it launched.
Under the direction of GE’s Jeff Immelt,
though, NBC’s cable network went for the
full-insane demographic. Fox took CNN’s
talking-head format and simply reversed the
bias, although Fox rightly argues that it
presents more opposing viewpoints than CNN
did as part of their establishment talent
and not just occasional guests and party
spinmeisters. NBC decided to emulate Air
America with its cable lineup instead,
perhaps seeing some opportunity in the last
Bush term to capitalize on his unpopularity
and become a center of opposition opinion.
Rather than accomplish that, the decision
by NBC and its parent GE has not just
destroyed MSNBC’s credibility but also NBC’s
as well. With the exception of Joe
Scarborough, who is hard to pigeonhole but
certainly isn’t a hard-Left hysteric, the
entire lineup is exactly what one would find
on the failed libtalker radio network. It’s
no coincidence that two of its featured
hosts come straight out of Air America,
Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz. Maddow has,
at least, produced a watchable show, albeit
with a hard-Left tilt that clearly is out of
touch with the mainstream, but Schultz is
barely coherent. Top that off with a daily
“news” broadcast from Keith Olbermann that
almost literally consists of a Two Minute
Hate (Olbermann’s WPIW lists), and it’s a
recipe for the kind of disaster that only
political hacks could love. The wonder is
that GE and NBC apparently seem content to
alienate 88% of the viewing audience with
its trainwreck theater.
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