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MisterTweak

2012-01-01 03:33:06 AM

Funny that they control the largest media outlets in the world - yet still claim to be oppressed by the "mainstream media".

Azlefty

2012-01-01 03:34:35 AM

Well Duh! That's because libs are out hiking in the forest hugging trees while Neo-Cons are sitting in front of the TV hugging a Col Sanders bucket!

Also subby where does Jon Stewart show rank?

GAT_00

2012-01-01 03:36:39 AM

So Fox is the liberal media?

monty666

2012-01-01 03:48:09 AM

popularity = "Hey Himmler, this goose-stepping is all the rage here in 1930's Germany, isn't it"

"It sure is, Adolf. It sure is."

skinnycatullus

2012-01-01 03:56:13 AM

Have a listen to the top 10 most popular songs of the year, then tell me what this moronic headline is supposed to prove.

Error403

2012-01-01 04:12:57 AM

Editing skills -5, Subby. Retard skills +5. Total 0. Try again.

Petit_Merdeux

2012-01-01 04:35:51 AM

And a You-Tube video of a cat licking its anus is more popular than any news program. So lets extrapolate based on those terms.

Vodka Zombie

2012-01-01 05:49:45 AM

Sometimes, the truth is unpopular.

elvisaintdead

2012-01-01 06:25:49 AM

so asshattery trumps smug on cable?

DrBenway

2012-01-01 07:04:23 AM

Vodka Zombie: Sometimes, the truth is unpopular.

...which would explain the great success of Fox News, I reckon.

EnviroDude

2012-01-01 09:56:35 AM

Madcow is #13! whoo hoo! Perhaps if she told the truth a bit more, she wouldn't be dismissed as a quack.

/does anybody take anything on MSNBC seriously? Other than the DNC, who tells them what to report?

urban.derelict

2012-01-01 09:59:33 AM

DrBenway: ...which would explain the great success of Fox News, I reckon.

4.bp.blogspot.com

/pities anyone who needs their 'news' spoon-fed to them by a talking head on tv
//your doing it wrong

SilentStrider

2012-01-01 10:21:12 AM

And how do those same Fox News shows fair against The Daily Show?

Somacandra

2012-01-01 10:43:07 AM

Help, its the LIEBERAL MSM Mainstream Drive-By MSMSMSMSMSM LIEBERAL media! We're being oppressed!

Dead for Tax Reasons

2012-01-01 10:51:25 AM

Well, there's no accounting for taste...or intelligence

make me some tea

2012-01-01 10:53:01 AM

MisterTweak: Funny that they control the largest media outlets in the world - yet still claim to be oppressed by the "mainstream media".

That's their schtick. It's marketing.

make me some tea

2012-01-01 10:53:48 AM

Also, I think I've watched Maddow's show like.. once? Twice? I don't even know when it's on.

wejash

2012-01-01 11:12:22 AM

So....TV ratings are political ratings are politically significant?

How tribal are Fox and Limbaugh going to make this culture in order to achieve the complete destruction of anything resembling a common American polity?

adamgreeney

2012-01-01 11:12:25 AM

So by this logic, what? Fox is better? More accurate? Because the Daily Show kills all their shows in ratings, so they must think the Daily Show is a more accurate news source right?

BalugaJoe

2012-01-01 11:19:48 AM

Not gay enough for me.

Sock Ruh Tease

2012-01-01 11:21:17 AM

I used to joke that Osama bin Laden was probably hiding out all these years at MSNBC, since nobody ever looks there for anything.

That joke was actually made by Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents Dinner, except it was C-SPAN instead of MSNBC. So we have a sucky blogger and a thief here, folks.

Howie Spankowitz

2012-01-01 11:22:24 AM

monty666: popularity = "Hey Himmler, this goose-stepping is all the rage here in 1930's Germany, isn't it"

"It sure is, Adolf. It sure is."

I guarantee you that this conversation happened more than once over steins of beer in Germany at the time:

"So, Gunther, what do you think of Hitler?"

"Well, Klaus, I don't agree with all of his policies, but he sure has that Jew thing right."

"And the gypsies. Don't forget the gypsies, Klaus."

"Implied, Gunther."

Howie Spankowitz

2012-01-01 11:24:00 AM

Sock Ruh Tease: I used to joke that Osama bin Laden was probably hiding out all these years at MSNBC, since nobody ever looks there for anything.

That joke was actually made by Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents Dinner, except it was C-SPAN instead of MSNBC. So we have a sucky blogger and a thief here, folks.

You know...I used to joke that there was a fly in my soup and he was doing the backstroke.

Forced Perspective

2012-01-01 11:24:39 AM

MisterTweak: Funny that they control the largest media outlets in the world - yet still claim to be oppressed by the "mainstream media".

Conservatives have an equal voice on the largest cable network (which are dwarfed by broadcast), and are essentially shut out of every other form of mass media. I'm not sure how mere parity on one news outlet is supposed to counterbalance complete absence from all the others.

Le Bomb Suprize

2012-01-01 11:26:16 AM

Well actually, Fox presents themselves as the only fair and balanced news network against all the other liberal outlets. Therefore, the people who prefer their news with a liberal bias have many different channels from which to choose. You would need to add the ratings of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CSPAN and any others I am forgetting and then compare THAT total rating to Fox in order to accurately gauge popularity.

Or, you can position Fox as conservative and MSNBC as liberal and compare the two while considering all the rest to be mainstream. What you can't do is compare Fox to MSNBC while saying Fox is neutral.

Mentat

2012-01-01 11:26:55 AM

Forced Perspective: Conservatives have an equal voice on the largest cable network (which are dwarfed by broadcast), and are essentially shut out of every other form of mass media. I'm not sure how mere parity on one news outlet is supposed to counterbalance complete absence from all the others.

Complete absence? You mean there are no conservative voices on any other media outlets anywhere?

sethstorm

2012-01-01 11:29:32 AM

Subtard is a Fox shill.

Dear Jerk

2012-01-01 11:29:40 AM

You'd think that if those were quality numbers, they'd be able to sell slots for things other than gold scams and off-brand boner pills.

arasmin

2012-01-01 11:30:30 AM

What's sad is toot mom is in at #18.

sethstorm

2012-01-01 11:31:57 AM

Solution: Buy up the rating agencies, make sure Murdoch's shows drop like a stone.

MoronLessOff

2012-01-01 11:32:51 AM

This should be one of those memebase troll/rage comics.

Hey Fark...

FOX NEWS!

Generation_D

2012-01-01 11:33:47 AM

lol, the idea that any of the media is liberal. Democratic Underground is liberal. Daily Kos is liberal.

Maddow is level headed and leans a bit to the left. Young Turks are populist and bombastic. Olbermann is liberal.

FOX is a professional wing of the Republican party.

Stewart is probably the most honest news reporting show in America, and he's a comedian. Should tell you everything you need to know right there.

The "old" media is right/center/corporate with occasional feel-good stories, but in no way giving a 'liberal' slant to things.

johnny queso

2012-01-01 11:34:08 AM

People are stupid and have bad taste. See Transformers, Twilight etc.

I get my news from the only unbiased source, AFV.

Oakenshield

2012-01-01 11:36:11 AM

Mental exercise: how many cockroaches are there for every human on the planet?

Forced Perspective

2012-01-01 11:36:32 AM

Mentat: Complete absence? You mean there are no conservative voices on any other media outlets anywhere?

Close enough. When's the last time you've seen somebody on TV advocating a cut in government? Not a mere decrease in the rate in which it increases, but an actual cut? Never happen.

Forgot_my_password_again

2012-01-01 11:38:45 AM

so they were averaging about 1%

sethstorm

2012-01-01 11:39:57 AM

Can the Fox supporters explain why Murdoch sanctioned phone intrusion (and otherwise) as company policy? You know, the thing that Murdoch got caught red-handed earlier this year.

You know, that Fox didn't want to cover?

skipjack

2012-01-01 11:43:40 AM

that maddow dude can't even beat a rerun of o'reilly.

/that's embarrassing
//except that only a small percentage of people actually watch cable news
///a percentage that likes to be told what to think
\\\\that goes for you msnbc fan boi's as well

Gosling

2012-01-01 11:45:52 AM

Generation_D: FOX is a professional wing of the Republican party.

This. I don't even count FOX News as a news organization anymore. The only thing separating them from a network openly declaring itself the Republican Channel is that tiny remaining vestigal smidgen of shame.

So let's try this again. Are there any NEWS programs higher-rated than Maddow?

radiosteele

2012-01-01 11:45:53 AM

OLD PEOPLE.

Thread over. Thanks for coming.

sigdiamond2000

2012-01-01 11:48:33 AM

This means Sarah Palin is automatically president.

Gosling

2012-01-01 11:51:16 AM

sigdiamond2000: This means Sarah Palin is automatically president.

Well, you know, if she took office today, she might actually be able to complete the term.

Lenny and Carl

2012-01-01 11:54:38 AM

McDonald's sells more beef than Morton's. Popular is not the same as good.

WayToBlue

2012-01-01 11:57:49 AM

Categorically speaking, fiction has always been more popular than nonfiction.

NewportBarGuy

2012-01-01 12:04:01 PM

Haven't seen her since I dropped cable nearly a year ago. It makes me less insane that I'm not flipping through those channels getting pissed off. Either about Rachel exposing the BS or Fox News spewing the BS or CNN sitting there and wallowing in the BS because they don't know how to report actual news.

Remember when CNN was an actual network that gave you useful information about the world? Those were the days. They remind me of TLC. Not very much learning going on in either place unless you wish to destroy the human race.

milk_plus

2012-01-01 12:06:22 PM

I have to hand it to loud, old, angry, ignorant, bigots; they are loyal.

Nihilist's Guide to Reticent Entropy

2012-01-01 12:09:46 PM

Anyone familiar with Star Wars EU...

BAMR News = Fox News
Natasi Daala = George W. Bush
Roki Kem = Barack Obama
Leia = Bill/Hillary Clinton
Lost Tribe (Sith) = Republicans

Discuss.

MoronLessOff

2012-01-01 12:11:20 PM

Nihilist's Guide to Reticent Entropy: Anyone familiar with Star Wars EU...

BAMR News = Fox News
Natasi Daala = George W. Bush
Roki Kem = Barack Obama
Leia = Bill/Hillary Clinton
Lost Tribe (Sith) = Republicans

Discuss.

Nerd.

Rebuttal?

skepticultist

2012-01-01 12:11:35 PM

Rachel Maddow is staying in the same hotel I'm in right now. She's two doors down from my parents. And last night I ran into Melissa Harris-Perry on Bourbon St. So, obviously, I'm getting a kick...

/Also, having spent the last week and a half in hotels and on cruise ships, I've noticed that FOX News was available everywhere and MSNBC was not.
//I personally watch Maddow (and Up with Chris Hayes) on the intertubes.

JBangworthy

2012-01-01 12:12:07 PM

The viewers of the top 14 shows should be loaded into a rocket and launched into the sun. Especially the viewers of the 14th show.

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