Nightly News Feels Pinch of 24-Hour News (Feel the Pain of Fox News, Vermin!)

The New York Times ^ | April 15, 2003 | Bill Carter

[GailA]

You don't get news off the alphabet soup networks..you get AGENDA plus commercials. I watch the local news then switch off to the History Channel or Discovery. Since I've already gotten 90% of my national/world news from the internet, mostly via FR..why bother with brokjaw, petah whinings, or dan blather..they are biased and irrevelant..just like the Useless Nations.

[HighWheeler]

Socialist Totem Pole

[LenS]

ABC executives also noted that the network's other news programs, "Good Morning America" and "Nightline" added viewers

Of course, the obvious conclusion that ABC's biggest problem is Peter Jennings will never occur to the pinheads at Disney. Nor the idea that Nightline did better with Koppel not hosting (not to mention, having him actually doing some real reporting for a change).

[Ahban]

It looks like the war has kept MSNBC from going under. There was 'series' talk of pulling the plug on it before the war. Now I think they will hold onto it because the cable/broadcast tandem is so effective when big stories are breaking.

[Vigilant1]

You may think you understand media bias, but once you look at what the Media Research Center ferets out, you will begin to truly understand the depth and scope of their subversion of the American public psyche by the liberal media. Take a look at the 30-day archive of MRC cyber-alerts. It's fascinating and frightening reading.

[Noumenon]

They all look saddened - deeply saddened...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

["This was a reporters' war, not an anchor war..."]

Translation: People are much more interested in real-time reporting from the front lines than the bland, biased drivel from the elitists. The decision to embed reporters will go down as a brilliant stroke.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I watch cable news channels, sports events, an occasional cooking show, classic movies, and the History Channel. That's all. Network news? I stopped watching that drivel years ago.

[CyberAnt]

Well, their coverage beats CNN all to heck!!

[laz17]

Once viewers realize that Baghdad Bob is far more honest than Rather, Jennings and Brokaw -- which takes less than five minutes -- they abandon the networks... never to return, I trust

At least Baghdad Bob was entertaining and made you laugh. Watching the networks is only good for giving you ulcers and high blood pressure. And only a masochist would sit and watch the snide and sneering Petah Jennings. He is poison. He is bitterness in the flesh. I wonder if he'll ever become sick of himself.

[The Shrew]

This article is a must read IMHO.

Regards,

TS

[T'wit]

I seriesly believe that watching network news destroys hugh amounts of brain cells.

[sharktrager]

Amazing that they never point out that the 2 lblatantly liberal anchors lost viewers, while the less blatant anchor gained.

[Frank_2001]

IMO those network news shows are a colossal waste of time...Haven't watched 'em since I don't know when...FOX is the best!

[GOPrincess]

Although this article has some interesting stats, I agree it lacks any serious analysis. For instance, it does not cover issues such as bias or quality. It automatically assumes that NBC did better because MSNBC is feeding viewers to it, but while some of NBC's success may be due to MSNBC, I would suggest it is because of the quality of the resources they share rather than MSNBC feeding NBC its viewers. If I'm not watching Fox (which is most of the time) the only other channel I watch is MSNBC, which has had some very good reporting by the late David Bloom and Dr. Bob Arnot. Like many, I flipped from Fox from time to time just to catch Bloom's enthusiastic reports. And who can forget the audio of Arnot comforting an Iraqi family in a foxhole as firing raged?

They don't mention the quality of Fox's coverage -- although they used to be considered not as strong on breaking news as CNN, the high quality of Fox's "embeds," combined with their top-drawer military analysts, combined with lots of daytime "face time" for Brit, Tony, Linda, et al., combined with refreshingly candid late-night dialogues between Shep & Rick, etc., has put Fox's coverage head and shoulders above the rest, and I think viewers who are interested in this kind of news just might be smart enough to realize it. :)

Finally, no analysis of how Jennings' very obvious anti-Americanism may have hurt his ratings. ABC needs to wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to Jennings.

[nutmeg]

The author deftly tiptoed around FOX like it was a minefield, didn't he?

I noticed that too, Leni! NY Slimes... what else can we expect?

[nutmeg]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[arasina]

Yes, "Big 3" just keep denying your viewers what they want to watch. Continue asserting that you don't have a liberal slant in your NEWS coverage. Hang on to your views that Fox News Channel is not fair and balanced and you don't need to change your ways. Don't observe the trends and make positive changes like MSNBC is beginning to do. Keep up the in-the-past and unrealistic thinking (i.e., Clintonites make up the majority of the viewing public; Al Gore got more votes in the 2000 election.)

Just because your newsrooms are full of leftists doesn't mean you can emulate Baghdad Bob and insist that what you are reporting is the truth. Go ahead and stay in your Democrap bubble like Saddam in his bunker. Keep it up and your financial bottom line will start looking like a big fat zero.

I worked in a television newsroom for 21 years. I'll never forget the time the station did a study on what viewers want in newscasts. Number One on the resulting list was POSITIVE NEWS. That was totally ignored and they just kept on reporting SCARY NEWS (like what kind of foods will kill you today, the dangers of this or that, fill-in-the-blank is unsafe, digging for dirt on supposedly corrupt (Republican) politicans, blah blah blah) Their ratings didn't improve until they later started reporting in a more positive way and even included a special segment focusing on religious news.

[timydnuc]

Looking at these three photographs I can conclude that they have increased Dan's antidepressant medication, Tom is in dyer need of a high colonic, and Peter off on some irrelevant tangent about the unemployed servants of Saddamn Insane and their tragic post-war fate.

Note to all these clymers: Don't eat a lot of cheese with that whine, it'll bind up your bowels, and you guys are full enough of "it" as it is.