Fox News Reality!

Unlike most of my friends, I have to watch Fox News. I need to do that because I have friends that are conservative and I have discussions with them. In Basic Training to be a salesman (Shudder), I learned to anticipate objections and overcome them before they are brought up. To this end, I need to know what those conservatives are watching and what forms their opinions. So, I get a lot of Fox Propaganda. One of the things I've heard time and again is that Fox has the biggest audience in Cable News. I've wondered about that.

When I checked it out . . . I found it to be correct . . . Sorta!

Fox Cable News is the only Ultra Conservative News on either Cable or Broadcast. Fox does not have a regular broadcast News. So, if you are a Conservative and want slanted news, you gotta watch Fox Cable News. That gives Fox Cable News the TOTAL of all the viewers that want Conservative Viewpoint News. Whereas, if you are Normal? Sensible? Realistic? or Middle of the Road, you have several News networks from which to choose, including Fox. So we have the Conservatives with one News source and the rest of us with many choices. That is why Fox News has so many viewers, or do they?

On a day this week the ratings for the various news channels in Prime Time were:
Fox News= 2.35 million
Other Cable News=2.25 million

But that is not the whole story. There are other news in broadcast. This is how that breaks out:
All Fox News= 2.35 million
All NBC News= 8.13 million
All CBS News= 5.52 million
All ABC News= 7.14 million
All CNN News= 1.82 million

That means that of the Prime Time Viewer of the news, 22.61 million TV sets were on a sane news source and 2.35 million were on Fox News.

That means that about 9.42% of the news viewer were watching Fox News. Now don't get me wrong, those are loud and obnoxious people and they want their way, no matter what. But, they are a minority, a vicious minority, but a minority none the less.

Fox News is a great source of bull shit. If you believe it, that is to their credit. If you don't believe it, let your friends know you don't and call them on their "FACTS."

Fox News Represents less than 10% of the people. You need to be louder than that 10%. You need to be smarter than that 10%. It is up to you to bring this group to task for their insanity.

Jump on in . . . the oily water is fine!