What Do Fox News and Erectile Dysfunction Have in Common?
From The New Yorker
The lead-off spot in The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” section usually goes to the most serious political item (last week, Afghanistan was first on deck). This week, however, the first entry plunges into a discussion of Obama and the White House’s recent exchanges with Fox News with this gentle comparison of FNC’s core viewership to users of erectile dysfunction medication:
In 2008, half the people who watched the Fox News Channel were over sixty-three, which is the oldest demographic in the cable-news business, and, according to a poll, the majority of the ones who watched the most strident programs, such as Sean Hannity’s and Bill O’Reilly’s shows, were men. All that chesty fulminating apparently functions as political Cialis. Fox News shows should probably carry a warning: Contact your doctor if you have rage lasting more than four hours.
Even though it characterizes FNC viewers in this way, the piece doesn’t get into the business of whether or not Fox News should be classified as a news network. In fact the piece — which is titled “Chin Music” in reference to remarks made by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs two weeks ago that the WH was effectively throwing an inside fastball at Fox — ends with a reminder that in baseball throwing at the batter is grounds for ejection.
Read Louis Menand’s “Chin Music,” on newsstands and online tomorrow.
Illustration courtesy of The New Yorker.
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SFPhoto says: When I was a kid, I remember reading a weekly humor magazine called The New Yorker in our high school library. It was filled with outrageously funny stories by S.J. Perelman, Isaac Singer, and Woody Allen. I remember reading Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” in The New Yorker and what gay guy could forget reading “Brokeback Mountain” in The New Yorker. Sadly it’s a different magazine today. Here’s a quote from their piece about Obama before the election: “Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them….he has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. He runs as an outsider, but he has succeeded by mastering the inside game.” As I said, The New Yorker is a sad shell of what it used to be.
ImNotBlue says: For all the talk about FNC’s “older” audience… no mention that they trounce in “the Demo” as well.
Gee… I wonder why….
m says: Play bingo (like a Fox),
Call relatives (like a Fox),
Eat baby food (like a Fox),
Recharge hoveround (like a Fox)
Insert hearing aide (like a Fox),
Watch O’Reilly (like a Fox),
Wave my fist hard (like a Fox),
Call relatives (like a Fox),
Poop my pants (like a Fox),
Change my diapers (like a Fox),
Look at birth date (like a Fox),
Now I’m dead (like a Fox).
ImNotBlue says: Hey M… let’s play a game. What year were you born?
Sunnyr says: Poor little dweebs from the MSM would KILL for Fox News’s ratings. Losers!
Tater Salad says: Congress does not care about Our healthcare because:
Because any legislation won’t affect them. You see, they have the special services of the Office of the Attending Physician (OAP) to take care of their every need.
Members of Congress do not pay for the individual services they receive at the OAP, nor do they submit claims through their federal employee health insurance policies. Instead, members pay a flat, annual fee of $503 for all the care they receive. The rest of the cost of their care, sources said, is subsidized by taxpayers.
Last year, Congress appropriated more than $3 million to reimburse the Navy for staff salaries at the office. Next year’s budget allocates $3.8 million for the office, including more than half a million dollars to upgrade the Office’s radiology suite. Sources said additional money to operate the office is included in the Navy’s annual budget.
A pretty good health care plan: $500 a year for unlimited and immediate healthcare services. Do you think the “Public Option” will provide the same.
m says: >Hey M… let’s play a game. What year were you born?
I’m in the segment of the demo that MSNBC beats both Fox News and CNN.
CaptainAmerica says: M claims:
I’m in the segment of the demo that MSNBC beats both Fox News and CNN.>
You mean the Demo that KEITH OLBERMANN just created out of thin air? The one he made up that even left wing Mediaite called him on?!
CaptainAmerica says: Wow, another dig at FNC. Where’s the story of FNC beating the other networks by huge numbers in the key demo? Where’s the story about many nights The Factor or Glen Beck have more KEY DEMO numbers than the total viewers of OLBYNUT and pretty much all the other shows as well?!
Or where’s the story of how lucrative all those “old viewers” are that are so easily dismissed? Its a great thing satellite and cable tv operators don’t care about the age of their clients who pay $75 or so a month to watch cable/satellite. Those old viewers help make FNC one of the highest licensed channels on tv. Why don’t you ever right about how much money Fox News rakes in from those fees? Or point out how much more lucrative all those fees are than ad revenue?!
ImNotBlue says: Hey, M! Me too!
Although… as Captain correctly points out… that’s not standard measurement. KO lied about it, so it has no relevance! Of course, when you check the stats online, you’ll find saying “MSNBC is winning” also to be a lie.
Anyway, being in the younger-half of the actual “demo” audience myself… what does that say about all the, “FOX audience is old” blah-blah?
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