The reason why FNS beats CNN more than 2:1 is simple: Fox News does not make its reporters or anchors the story. The story IS the story. Notice how they reported but not dwell on the attack on Greg Palkot (sp?) and his photographer, who, incidentally suffered more injuries than Anderson Cooper, Christian Amanpour, Katie Couric, etc. combined — not that the extent of one’s injuries should be a gauge of newsworthiness. These anchors flying in and out of hot zones like buzzards is a kind of journalist narcissism.

Check the time line. The Palkot&Wiig story was Fri.

They certainly are making something of the Palkot story now that he is out of danger. They said nothing for a while because of the situation. They, Fox, appealed to the State Dept., because of the danger Palkot and Wiig was in. Considering the dire situation Wiig was in with Cenntanni a couple of years back, they knew keeping mum was important.

Keep up the great work FOX!!

Ho Hum… Just another day for Fox News. In other news the sun came up today.

Did I mention Olbermann picked the Steelers by 2 TD’s…

berserk said:
The reason why FNS beats CNN more than 2:1 is simple: Fox News does not make its reporters or anchors the story. The story IS the story. Notice how they reported but not dwell on the attack on Greg Palkot (sp?) and his photographer, who, incidentally suffered more injuries than Anderson Cooper, Christian Amanpour, Katie Couric, etc. combined — not that the extent of one’s injuries should be a gauge of newsworthiness. These anchors flying in and out of hot zones like buzzards is a kind of journalist narcissism.

By that reasoning, Hannity, O’Reilly or Beck mean nothing to Fox’s success. Highly unlikely.

By that reasoning… Ed, Maddow, O’Donnall, Chris mean everything to MSNBC trailing so far behind Fox News. Thanks for explaining that. :)

“Fox News averaged 628,000 viewers 25-54 in primetime, compared to CNN’s 341,000 and MSNBC’s 254,000.”

I would have thought a good Mediaite headline would have read something like:

“MSNBC’S EGYPT COVERS MISSED BEING AT THE TOP OF THE RATINGS CHART BY A FEW THOUSAND VIEWERS”

berserk said:

“These anchors flying in and out of hot zones like buzzards is a kind of journalist narcissism.”

Well put, and an interesting perspective.

I find it amusing that “journalists” like Couric, who is no more a journalist than a grafitti artist is a novelist, scurry away at the first sign of a genuine threat and others put themselves in harm’s way for the sake of the story in the true tradition of journalism. People like Couric are genuine examples of that “journalistic narcissism”.

They dashed over there for the chance to get themselves on camera in front of a chanting crowd. But they proved the old addage – when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Going home, in their case.

Can’t stay there, can they? They might break a nail.

berserk said:
The reason why FNS beats CNN more than 2:1 is simple: Fox News does not make its reporters or anchors the story. The story IS the story.

BINGO! You nailed it berserk.

That is lefty news these days…it is all about the report and the BS, make that story they can pass on to the public … and they wonder why their viewers are dwindling.

Maybe, just maybe if some of these self proclaimed intellectuals who have graduated from the “Ivy League” schools would quick and get an undergraduate degree from any business school in flyover country, they would get their act together. Then again, it may be easier to move that mountain to the west of me.

tatboy said:
By that reasoning… Ed, Maddow, O’Donnall, Chris mean everything to MSNBC trailing so far behind Fox News. Thanks for explaining that. :)

They just need to start blaming Bush some more to get their ratings up. Throw in a few lines about Dick Cheney and Halliburton here and there… Rumsfeld and illegal wars that we don’t belong in because muslims are peaceful. Maybe invite some Al Jazeera commentators over so that we can hear about how much this must be America’s “fault”. Good sheep talking points is all the other networks need, right?

Katie Couric must have been quite shocked that they did not greet her with open arms. After all, terrorism and muslim extremists are all about getting Americans scared so that they vote for more mean neo cons, right?

How many sheep heads exploded when they read the headline of this story, I wonder? What a sheep-free zone so far. Here, let me get them started: The Nielson ratings people…they must be owned by…Fox!

Awww, and right on cue, the 0bama white house is getting cozy with Al Jazeera, now! From the LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-al-jazeera-20110207,0,7680421.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld+%28L.A.+Times+-+World+News%29

Now the other cable clowns have been given a green light by none other than Barry 0bama to bring on Al Jazeera! What a guy. The sheep can get all the American bashing propaganda in one neat little place. THEIR media is complete.

Fox News more than doubles CNN and MSNBC viewership combined.

Same shit, different day :-)

Tony Westover said:
Fox News more than doubles CNN and MSNBC viewership combined.

Same shit, different day :-)

Shockingly, a news station fanboy fails at math…

the folks felt this was serious so they decided to listen to the truth just in case. Beauty is only skin deep Obowmao

tatboy said:
By that reasoning… Ed, Maddow, O’Donnall, Chris mean everything to MSNBC trailing so far behind Fox News. Thanks for explaining that. :)

They make Fox News the story, and it just doesn’t work.

This is kind of a bummer. Sandmonkey outed himself the other night and it was truly in the “If a tree falls in the forest…” land of Parker/Spitzer. I would love to see him getting a lot more play.

Harry Flashman said:
Can’t stay there, can they? They might break a nail.

LOL!! I could not have said that better! Thank you.

Personally, all of my liberal friends have bailed on MSNBC as well. Kissing up to and defending the actions of people in power gets old after a while.

Not to mention their non stop reporting on Fox news. Most people want to watch news that holds elected officials feet to the fire. MSNBC is on full time defense for government.

In Egypt ratings? Hell across the board, son!

“Fox News quietly cleaned up, attracting more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined on a hard news story.”

Oh, snap, you just took away the libs latest talking point of adding up lib channel ratings to say they combined were greater than FOX’s.

In the first week of extensive live coverage of the uprising in Egypt, CNN got a ratings bump, knocking MSNBC into third place overall in the critical demographic of viewers 25-54–but Fox News quietly cleaned up, attracting more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined on a hard news story.

Boy that Rachel Maddow is gonna have her hands full in the “next few months” with all those “stupid debates”!

In Egypt Coverage Fox News Dominates Ratings

Ahhh. Probably because the other networks are to busy reporting on how Fox News is doing Egyptian coverage. They still just haven’t got it yet how the reporting thing works….

Kinda makes you wonder why these people put themselves in harms way when they could have stayed home and let Sam Donaldson’s, bastion of journalistic integrity, “Al Jazeera”, absorb the punishment?

” In Egypt Coverage Fox News Dominates Ratings”

“Fair and Balanced”, as usual, wins over the lamestream socialist fake-news lies, distortions, propaganda, slime and mis-representations.

FoxNess = where serious viewers get their serious news.

Poor CNN & LSDnbc. What are they to do? They get trounced by FOX News no matter what the news is. PMSnbc should just fold up and go away. Hopefully Comcast sees what the world sees and will make changes to their goofy lineup. They canNOT be happy with the idiots who are the present talking heads. That group only thrills and gives tingles up the legs of the Code Pinko and PETA. crowd which is few in number.

If ComCast runs its operations like a business and not like an agitprop organ which GE used to try to cajole govt. funding for its projects through crony capitalism with the obnoxious little jug-eared Chicago ward-heeler Obimbo, then maybe they can get rid of sport-of-nature Madcow and put him/her on the Animal Channel or Ripley’s Believe it or Not for the freak that he/she is—plus shit-canning the obsequious Matthews Tweety-Bird shill for whatever he thinks Obimbo wants to do—-then maybe MessNBC will get out of the ratings subbasement, where it vies with CNN for third place.