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2008-10-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

Big Three Nets' Evening News Programs Still in Collective Decline

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Posted by Steve White 2008-10-01 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 OTOH, CNN has copied a lot from the FOX format such that FOX now follows CNN's lead in breaking stories.

The PETA Naked Babes would be proud of CNN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-10-01 00:33|| 2008-10-01 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 I rarely watch even my local news anymore. I WANT to watch it, and I tune in about once a week HOPING to see something, but alas, it just sucks too much to waste my time.

I was with a bunch of moms today and not one of us took the local paper. What's worse is that I was at a party last weekend and a group of women were planning a trip to the movies but none of them got the local paper. And they were all in their early 60's.

The media didn't die. It committed suicide.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-10-01 02:21|| 2008-10-01 02:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I rarely watch even my local news anymore

Who wants to lose time watching TV news progralms when we have rantburg?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-01 07:41|| 2008-10-01 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember "News is what people don't want you to know".

The MSM is a press release recycling centre.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-10-01 08:05|| 2008-10-01 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I had the option of getting local channels for a nominal fee when I got my little satellite dish installed a few years ago. I told them to stuff the local channels. Network free. Ahhhh!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-01 08:14|| 2008-10-01 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 My mom and grandma watched the evening news religiously. Once, when I was about 10, Wells Hangen was reporting live from Saigon when a grenade went off nearby. A piece of shrapnel hit him in the leg. He calmly stated that he'd been hit by shrapnel, he wasn't seriously injured, but he'd have to sign off.

The network cut to the commercials. I think one of them was for aspirin.

Chicago news anchor Bill Kurtis addressed my high school in an assembly in 1974. He stated that television news was more of a "headline service".

People want more than a headline service.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-10-01 09:00|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-10-01 09:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Their loyal viewership is literally dying off. I'm surprised they haven't manufactured a Longevity Crisis(c) to rush a hundred billion dollar package through Congress to keep that viewership on life support. They can even have a nifty motto - Don't Pull That Plug!

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-01 09:23|| 2008-10-01 09:23|| Front Page Top

#8 It may be that the in-the-tank media is now only preaching to the already converted. They're the only ones still watching.

Which is why BO's numbers in the polls worry me. You can't get those kind of numbers with just True Believers; you need the great middle.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-10-01 09:42|| 2008-10-01 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 I trust those people so little that if the New Yuk Times wrote the sun was going to rise in the east tomorrow morning, I'd have to get up and check. They can't be believed on ANYTHING because they play politics with EVERYTHING.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-01 11:55|| 2008-10-01 11:55|| Front Page Top

#10 I am positive that the polls are slanted to create an Obama lead. All the media, pollsters included are banking on an Obama win, and you know what happens to banking on a gamble. Also, there are a lot of people who will never vote for him or any black associated with the 'black movement'. When polled, they will say sure, count me in, but in fact, no way.
It's no surprise that the black caucus is attached at the hip with Fanny Mae and this financial crisis. This entire debacle was created to funnel money to blacks so they could buy 'affordable housing' even without the means to repay the loans.
It's not the fault of black people, but the fault of the congressional black caucus voting for a payback for their constituants. What could be better than piles and piles of money to play with ?
No bailout ! Your party, my dime ? No way.
Maybe if the MSM ran this story they would begin to recover. Don't bank on that either.

Posted by lollypop 2008-10-01 12:04|| 2008-10-01 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 "This entire debacle was created to funnel money to blacks so they could buy 'affordable housing' even without the means to repay the loans."

At the start, and in concept yes. But once the rules changed that (seemed to) guarantee loans made to people who clearly lacked the wherewithal to repay, McMansions, and zero down flipping became all the rage. There really is enough blame to go around.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-10-01 12:23|| 2008-10-01 12:23|| Front Page Top

#12 The MSM have shot themselves in the feet. They used to slightly mask their bias'. Now it so obvious that they are nothing but "trumpeters and cheerleaders" for BO and a left agenda. The lying and their agenda have left people distrusting anything they say. Bring on the fall faster please. They abuse the freedoms of the First Amendment.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-01 13:08|| 2008-10-01 13:08|| Front Page Top

#13 JohnQC,

Here's an example of how easily they do it:
The lying and their agenda have Left people ~~dis~~trusting anything they say.

Recognize your own sentence? The MSM is so far in the tank for these folks they can't be trusted to report anything straightforwardly. Obama is the worst candidate a major party has put forward for the POTUS in my fairly long lifetime. I've NEVER seen them in such cahoots before, not even in 2004. If it wasn't for their complete sellout in becoming a fully-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, Obama would be back finishing up a very obscure first term as junior Senator from Illville.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-01 18:29|| 2008-10-01 18:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Of course this is a mixed blessing. But the old saying is 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-01 20:22|| 2008-10-01 20:22|| Front Page Top

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