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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-10 07:24 AM
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26. It's Always Been Wrong...
Let's dig into those numbers even further. First of all, 1.85 is almost half of what they had a year ago. As you see, out of a nation of 100 voters, that's still less than 2%...and who says all of those are rushpublicans? That number isn't even 5% of the vote Gramps McCain got in '08.

These numbres have also been conflated as they're only compared to the other "news" networks...there are far more people watching ESPN or Nickelodeon...it's not even as many who watch the 11:00 news in New York or LA on a nightly basis. But its trumpeted, primarily by faux and echoed by the corporate media as being something more than what it is. Problem is when they echo the faux talking points that it reaches far more people. It's time for the other networks to fact check first and propagate last.
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  -Fox Ratings 1.85 million viewers cachukis  Jul-28-10 04:28 PM   #0 
  - Well, one thing is that FOX is on most basic cable tier packages.  myrna minx   Jul-28-10 04:33 PM   #1 
  - Whenever some idiot brings up the numbers, I tell them  louis-t   Jul-28-10 04:33 PM   #2 
  - The same could be said of GEM$NBC - both are commentary and opinion channels, not news.  Maru Kitteh   Jul-28-10 08:12 PM   #24 
  - tell them that there are 310 million people who don't give a damn.  roguevalley   Jul-29-10 03:43 PM   #33 
  - who conducted this survey? Huff Po? I didn't see a source like Quinnipiac poll or other...  wordpix   Jul-28-10 04:43 PM   #3 
  - If you're in a group of 166 people and none of them are Fox viewers...it's YOU!  RUMMYisFROSTED   Jul-28-10 04:45 PM   #4 
  - That would mean you're more likely to have Autism than to watch Fox "News."  Ian David   Jul-28-10 04:49 PM   #7 
  - What's more likely: Lupus or Meet the Press?  RUMMYisFROSTED   Jul-28-10 04:53 PM   #10 
  - !  Richardo   Jul-29-10 08:30 AM   #28 
  - A useful number would be a percentage based on number of cable viewers who have access to it.  Ian David   Jul-28-10 04:48 PM   #5 
  - OP Title should have said: Fox Ratings 1.85 million viewers out of 300 million ;) n/t  Tx4obama   Jul-28-10 04:48 PM   #6 
  - Fine, they dominate cable news.  HawkerHurricane   Jul-28-10 04:49 PM   #8 
  - If they could be tested, the most common factor among them would be "incurious"  Bozita   Jul-28-10 04:50 PM   #9 
  - The colors are bright and vivid and there's lots of stuff moving all over the screen.  Ian David   Jul-28-10 04:57 PM   #12 
     - Have you ever seen the Faux News Business Channel in HD?  Bozita   Jul-28-10 05:15 PM   #16 
  - So.....  Turbineguy   Jul-28-10 04:56 PM   #11 
  - We need to remember  Cirque du So-What   Jul-28-10 04:58 PM   #13 
  - "Forced viewers" might be another way to express it.  DLnyc   Jul-29-10 07:19 AM   #25 
  - How's that? 1.85 million for Fox? Out of how many........?  suston96   Jul-28-10 04:58 PM   #14 
  - Wait...CNN is moderate now?  EstimatedProphet   Jul-29-10 09:17 AM   #31 
  - tvbythenumbers is moderated by right leaning  itsrobert   Jul-29-10 09:20 AM   #32 
  - I don't know if this is counted in the statistics, but:  DFW   Jul-28-10 05:15 PM   #15 
  - Well when you factor in  cstanleytech   Jul-28-10 05:22 PM   #17 
  - 1.85 million in a country of 300 Million isn't that many  Renew Deal   Jul-28-10 05:25 PM   #18 
  - And in other news...  shawn703   Jul-28-10 05:36 PM   #19 
  - Fox viewership  classysassy   Jul-28-10 05:53 PM   #20 
  - The idiocracy has arisen.  political_Dem   Jul-28-10 06:00 PM   #21 
  - Average age of FAUX News viewers  sandyd921   Jul-28-10 06:21 PM   #22 
  - FOX is the "go-to" source for right-wingers. Everybody else gets distributed  metapunditedgy   Jul-28-10 07:14 PM   #23 
  - It's Always Been Wrong...  KharmaTrain   Jul-29-10 07:24 AM   #26 
  - A lot of those are businesses who leave their televisions running all day  lunatica   Jul-29-10 07:27 AM   #27 
  - You want to hear how stupid and hypocritical Americans are...?  lib2DaBone   Jul-29-10 09:10 AM   #29 
  - Remember, Rupert Murdoch also claims to have an 18.5" penis  EstimatedProphet   Jul-29-10 09:14 AM   #30 
  - That's a lot of comedians, watchdogs and writers watching FOX. (nt)  Kurovski   Jul-30-10 10:51 PM   #34 
 

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