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By losing 9% of their audience in 2011, Fox News’ prime time lineup now averages fewer viewers than Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.
According to TVNewser, Fox News averaged 1.868 million total viewers in prime time compared to 2.3 million for The Daily Show.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fox-news-2011-tops-in-cable-news-top-13-programs-in-cable-news-but-down-from-2010_b104224
The audience erosion continued over at Fox News as the network lost 8% of its total viewers and 14% of their viewers in the 25-54 demo. The total number of daytime Fox News viewers slipped to 1.073 million.
“Red Eye” was the only Fox News show to post ratings gains in 2011. Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and On The Record With Greta Van Susteren all lost viewers. In the morning, Fox and Friends remained flat. Fox News still showed its dominance by having the top 13 rated cable news programs, but a certain program hosted by a comedian that Fox News loves to hate on Comedy Central blew past most of the Fox News shows in the ratings.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/28/this-is-cnn-woeful-ratings-just-not-as-woeful-as-last-year/114839/
According to Comedy Central, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart averaged 2.3 million viewers per episode in 2011. Unlike Fox News, “The Daily Show” was up in total viewers (+7%) and all key demos: adults 18-49 (+6%); men 18-34 (+2%); men 18-24 (+4%).” The Daily Show was also the top cable late night talk show in terms of total viewers, and was generally dominant. While Fox News was losing 14% in the demo in 2011, Jon Stewart was gaining 6%.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/21/comedy-central-ends-2011-as-the-1-entertainment-network-in-cable-among-men-18-34-and-men-18-24/114431/
links and more:
http://silas216.tumblr.com/post/19319837278/jon-stewart-crushes-fox-news-in-the-2011-ratings
Robert Reich: "Moral Rot...Turning Our Democracy Into A Financial Slush Pump"
Robert Reich
There is moral rot in America but it’s not found in the private behavior of ordinary people. It’s located in the public behavior of people who control our economy and are turning our democracy into a financial slush pump.
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http://robertreich.org/post/19266068257
Students shocked as USA HS assembly descends into homophobic rant against Sir Elton John & Lady Gaga
Source: The Daily Mail
Students shocked as US high school assembly descends into homophobic rant against Sir Elton John and Lady Gaga
By LYLE BRENNAN
PUBLISHED: 07:43 EST, 14 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:01 EST, 14 March 2012
Captive audience: A still from a video in which preacher Bradlee Dean gives Iowa students a lecture attacking popular culture for promoting homosexuality
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Junkyard Prophet had previously visited the school without incident and staff were expecting them to return last week with a talk on bullying and making the right choices.
But instead, students found themselves faced with graphic images of aborted foetuses, while girls were instructed to obey their husbands.
Parent Jennifer Littlefield told the LaCrosse Tribune: 'They told my daughter, the girls, that they were going to have mud on their wedding dresses if they weren't virgins.'
Her 16-year-old daughter Alivia was distraught when she called her after the event and was one of several to have left in tears.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114845/Students-shocked-US-high-school-assembly-descends-homophobic-rant.html#ixzz1p8Hs3i6J
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On Goldman Executive Greg Smith’s "Devastating" Brave Departure -by Matt Taibbi
On Goldman Executive Greg Smith’s Brave Departure
Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
March 14, 11:06 AM ET
Wall Street is buzzing this morning about a resignation – a historic one. Greg Smith, the executive director and head of Goldman Sachs’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, not only decided to quit Goldman, he decided to do it in the New York Times, eloquently deconstructing the firm’s moral slide in a lengthy op-ed piece.
The essence of Smith’s piece is devastating. He points to one simple, specific problem in the company: the fact that Goldman routinely screws its own clients. Anyone familiar with the report prepared by Senator Carl Levin’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will recognize the jargon Smith points to in this line, in which he talks about what one has to do to become a leader in today’s Goldman:
Execute on the firm’s “axes,” which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the stocks or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit.
We heard about “axes” before in the tales about loser mortgage-derivative products like Timberwolf – that Goldman gave incentives to executives to unload its most toxic crap on clients. It was one thing to read about it in a Senate report, but here we have it from one of the firm’s own partners. He goes further, talking about the ways in which Goldman executives derided their own clients as fools and dupes:
It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as “muppets,” sometimes over internal e-mail. Even after the S.E.C., Fabulous Fab, Abacus, God’s work, Carl Levin, Vampire Squids? No humility? I mean, come on.
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THE REST:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-goldman-executives-brave-departure-20120314
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Frank Rich on the National Circus:
Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith resigned today by very publicly flipping the bird at the firm in the form of a Times op-ed. Does it matter at all?
Every American should read this powerful piece. Here is a bright young rising Goldman star – one of ten people (out of more than 30,000 employees) chosen to appear in Goldman’s college recruiting video – saying that he is quitting because of the firm’s “moral fiber.” He describes a workplace where executives openly deride their own clients as “muppets” and pursue any ethical shortcut at hand to make a buck:
“Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.” This is not just a Goldman problem. This is the larger culture that caused the meltdown of 2008 and will cause the next. The Obama administration’s failure to hold the financial sector to account for its last round of shortcuts still haunts it. That the president is likely to run against an actual representative of that tarnished sector, the Man from Bain, remains his luckiest political break.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/frank-rich-on-the-national-circus-overestimating-mitt.html
something he ate?
http://www.dependablerenegade.com/.a/6a00d8341bf82953ef016302d40868970d-500wiSantorum: 'NOT Going to listen to value judgment of a guy who strapped his own dog on top of a car'
A top adviser on Rick Santorum's campaign said Mitt Romney's bizarre treatment of the family dog 30 years ago shows the former Massachusetts governor has poor judgment.
"Quite frankly, I'm not sure I'm going to listen to a value judgment of a guy who strapped his own dog on the top of a car and went hurling down the highway," Santorum adviser John Brabender said on CNN's "Starting Point," in response to a question about Romney's allegation that the Santorum campaign is "desperate."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/seamus-romney-santorum_n_1344534.html?1331737237
Robert Reich: Difference Between Private and Public Morality
Robert Reich
The Difference Between Private and Public Morality
Republicans have morality upside down. Santorum, Gingrich, and even Romney are barnstorming across the land condemning gay marriage, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, access to contraception, and the wall separating church and state.
But America's problem isn't a breakdown in private morality. It's a breakdown in public morality. What Americans do in their bedrooms is their own business. What corporate executives and Wall Street financiers do in boardrooms and executive suites affects all of us.
There is moral rot in America but it's not found in the private behavior of ordinary people. It's located in the public behavior of people who control our economy and are turning our democracy into a financial slush pump. It's found in Wall Street fraud, exorbitant pay of top executives, financial conflicts of interest, insider trading, and the outright bribery of public officials through unlimited campaign "donations."
THE REST:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-difference-between-pr_b_1344690.html
Majority Of Americans: "FIRE RUSH LIMBAUGH" (Bloomberg)
Fire Rush LimbaughMore than half of those interviewed also say radio host Rush Limbaugh, who called a female law student testifying publicly in favor of birth-control coverage a “slut” and “prostitute,” should be fired based solely on those comments.
Republicans are more likely than respondents generally to see the controversy over contraception as an issue of religious liberty, with 54 percent viewing it that way, compared with 42 percent who say it was a matter of health-care access.
While Democrats have charged that the Republican position amounts to a “war on women,” the poll indicates that they aren’t benefiting from it in respondents’ perceptions of the two parties. The survey also suggests that the advantage Democrats have historically enjoyed among women may have narrowed.
Forty-nine percent of women say they would choose Obama over Romney, the front-runner in delegates in the Republican primary, compared with 45 percent who say they’d pick the former Massachusetts governor. In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women’s vote to 43 percent for the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, according to national exit polls.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-14/republicans-losing-on-birth-control-as-77-in-poll-spurn-debate.html
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