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miles
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Progressive has to be number 1.
Fair share
Teachable moment
Investment
Fairness
Racism
Fair share
Teachable moment
Investment
Fairness
Racism
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http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/16/neutral-objective-factsIn fact, it might be argued that Fox News has become part of the problem it was intended to solve. True, Fox News has been the number one cable network for the past decade, but its viewership is still only a fraction of the national new audience. In January of this year, the nightly audience for the three major broadcast networks' evening news programs averaged a combined 24.2 million viewers (9.3 million for NBC, 8.2 million for ABC, 6.7 million for CBS). By comparison, the highest-rated program for Fox News, "The O'Reilly Factor," averages less than 3 million views nightly. The very existence of a conservative-friendly TV news alternative, however, relieves liberals at other networks of any twinge of conscience about bias in their programming. They may well reckon, "If conservatives don't like it, let 'em go watch Fox." And given how liberals have demonized Fox -- portraying it as an all-powerful evil force in media -- some reporters may even feel the need to slant their coverage more stridently leftward, so as to counteract the exaggerated right-wing news menace.
Many conservatives, however, do not fully grasp how this phenomenon (which I've come to think of as "The Fox Trap") may actually result in mainstream media coverage that shows a shameless disregard for political fairness. Even if the audience for the major network news broadcasts slowly shrinks, that audience -- like the readership of liberal "mainstream" newspapers -- is still much larger than the audience reached by conservative alternative media. Yet too many conservatives have been lulled into complacency. Self-selecting their media choices (Fox News, talk-radio, conservative websites, etc.) many conservatives may believe that their viewpoint is adequately represented in the overall media ecology, when in fact the larger news industry is as liberal as it ever was, if not more so.
Ooooh, I wanna play. I'm an actual liberal.
Show me "diversity"!!
*gazes hopefully at sign*
Ooooh, I wanna play. I'm an actual liberal.
Show me "diversity"!!
*gazes hopefully at sign*
Welcome to Lit!
Miles and 4est_4est_Gump aren't interested in proving anything, they are two bitter old men who blame everything that went wrong in their pathetic lives on President Obama and the Democratic party.
They both know they're a fringe minority, so they attempt to drown out discourse with "shit and run" posts (Miles) and copious cut-and-paste (Gump, also known as AJ).
Hey bro, reads books not bogs.
Who's the alt with "bro" in his sig line? I can't remember his name...
Hey bro, reads books not bogs.
Kinetic Action
I'm not new. It's me- Candi. Just... significantly more greedy.