On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Washington Post contends that it is, and that more than 200 > advertisers are boycotting either his program or the entire FoxNews > station, effectively making any ratings success pointless, since they > don't bring in ad revenue. > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031402312.html > > Sort of a twist to the old tree falling in the forest question. If > Glenn Beck screams on FoxNews, but there is nobody willing to pay for > his screaming, will he continue to scream? > The money quote is after the jump to page two, from Andrew Tyndale: "They're (Fox News) right on the cusp of losing their image as a news organization,". I have been trying to figure out if that is a punch line or a straight line, either way it serves to illustrate who dissociated this all is. Both Beck and Fox News are described as cultural phenomenons, yet they might as well be on Mars for all the impact they have on my life. I watched Beck a couple of times when he first started on CNN Headline News, trying to figure out just what I was watching. Once I did I never looked back. Everything I know about him, and his network, I know from their spill over into popular culture (e.g. I did see a youtube clip of him bashing social justice Christianity). It is just not plausible to me that there are really journalists at Fox News who worry that Beck is hurting their credibility - that is like the strippers worried that the whores working the bar might give them a bad reputation. I know, someone is going to protest that Shep Smith or Chris Wallace are first class journalists and I am letting my liberal bias distort my judgment - but I have to call bull shit on that. If Smith and Wallace are such professional newsmen let them work at something approaching a professional news operation. A few years ago Fox (or some conservative outlet) tried to put out a right-wing version of the Daily Show. It fell flat, of course, because (from what I can tell) the right wing version of the Daily Show is being done every night by Hannity and O'Reilly and Beck. Viewed as comic entertainers these guys are successful, viewed any other way they are offensive. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
