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Former NY Times Columnist Claims Fox News Is 'Dead,' And Liberals Should Stop Protesting It
newsbusters ^ | Feb. 1, 2014 | Tim Graham

Posted on 02/01/2014 10:27:55 PM PST by PROCON

Former New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote a long attack piece on Fox News for New York magazine theorizing that the Left pays too much attention to “waning” Fox News and gives them too much cachet by opposing them fiercely. It's called "Stop Beating a Dead Fox."

Fox never succeeds on its own. Liberals have the power to make it succeed:

In truth, Fox News has been defeated on the media battlefield—and on the political battlefield as well. Even the 73-year-old wizard of Fox, Roger Ailes, now in full Lear-raging-on-the-heath mode as -portrayed in my colleague Gabriel -Sherman’s definitive new biography, The Loudest Voice in the Room, seems to sense the waning of his power. The only people who seem not to know or accept Fox’s decline, besides its own audience, are -liberals, including Barack Obama, whose White House mounted a short-lived, pointless freeze-out of Fox News in 2009, and who convinced himself that the network has shaved five points off his approval rating.

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FoxNews isn't a perfect conservative outlet, but I'm still glad it makes liberals heads explode!
1 posted on 02/01/2014 10:27:55 PM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON
Frank Rich is a pathetic moron.

Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for Thursday,  January 30, 2014

Total Day P2+ (000s) 25-54 (000s) 35-64 (000s)
FOXN 1345 268 536
CNN 362 107 174
MSNBC 449 146 237
CNBC 127 39 62
FBN 51 9 22
HLN 187 76 118

Source

2 posted on 02/01/2014 10:31:36 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: PROCON

Frank Rich is an idiot and a liar, like 99.99 percent of all libtards.


3 posted on 02/01/2014 10:33:54 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: PROCON
The liberal left is the equivalent of the snake in the Garden—never stop condemning, convicting.
4 posted on 02/01/2014 10:37:02 PM PST by Fungi
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To: PROCON
Frank *????* who?
Walter Winchell ref.

5 posted on 02/01/2014 10:37:39 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: PROCON

Frank Rich has spent his entire pathetic life as a left wing propagandist. He is an enemy of the American people.


6 posted on 02/01/2014 10:37:39 PM PST by allendale
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To: cynwoody
Nobody watches Fox News anymore because it's too crowded.
7 posted on 02/01/2014 10:39:52 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Nobody watches Fox News anymore because it's too crowded.

I beg to differ, it's better than the alphabet channels, but being discerning is also important, that's why we FReep.

8 posted on 02/01/2014 10:43:06 PM PST by PROCON (Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
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To: PROCON
Fox is just MSM as far as I am concerned.
I can't stand Oreally , Annity, pretty boy shep etc.
There is a major void for a conservative news channel.
Has free speech been eliminated on television?
Has the threat of the “fairness doctrine” been successful?
9 posted on 02/01/2014 10:52:32 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: PROCON
That's what they said about the Tea Party 3 years ago...

The Horse Manure is getting deep.

10 posted on 02/01/2014 10:55:44 PM PST by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: PROCON

Spoke w a New Yorker last week She said when she says she watches Fox News people screech at her. What are you insane!?

She told me she says, ‘how else am I going to know anything? She said no one knows ANYTHING about Benghazi. NONE of the News outlets say d about it.


11 posted on 02/01/2014 10:57:00 PM PST by stanne
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To: PROCON
FoxNews isn't a perfect conservative outlet

There, I fixed your typo...

12 posted on 02/01/2014 11:01:29 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these here Boncentration Bamps!)
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To: PROCON

WOW could have fooled me..if being “Dead” means having the highest rated Cable News station out of everyone in existence today then that is pretty damn awesome..Liberalism, not just a mental illness, but a true defect


13 posted on 02/01/2014 11:01:45 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: PROCON

and this is why you shouldn’t ever believe anything a liberal says. ever.


14 posted on 02/01/2014 11:04:42 PM PST by RC one
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To: stanne; PROCON

She said she has a big heart for the diplomats, said she had to spend a ton if time in the embassy when she went to get her daughter in a foreign adoption

I want people even ted Cruz to start referring to them as, as in Argo, our diplomats

They, I am sorry, are in an exalted position They were embassy people

The ME people know it, and are treating the situation as such. We left our embassy people to die in country.

It’s just not the same as Americans. Like tourists

Well fox covers the important stuff. Well have to take it as it is for now


15 posted on 02/01/2014 11:04:42 PM PST by stanne
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To: PROCON
Don't seem dead to me.

Fox never succeeds on its own. Liberals have the power to make it succeed:

So arrogant.

16 posted on 02/01/2014 11:12:13 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: PROCON; KarlInOhio

I think Karl in Ohio was just making a Yogi Berra joke.

If Rich wants to discourage people from attacking Fox, fine. But the attackers are still at it. When I was in Oregon there were little bookmark-type takeaways at a cash register preaching about how evil Fox was. The demonization continues apace. Real down-and-outers spouting in Starbux after the SOTU about how wicked the Tea Party was. No substantial criticism, of course—just angry shakes of the head and muttering.


17 posted on 02/01/2014 11:13:40 PM PST by firebrand
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To: KarlInOhio

I watch it with the rest of the nobodys


18 posted on 02/01/2014 11:15:15 PM PST by woofie
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To: PROCON

Frank Rich’s head explodes no matter what subject he bothers to talk about.


19 posted on 02/01/2014 11:17:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: PROCON
FoxNews isn't a perfect conservative outlet, but I'm still glad it makes liberals heads explode!

Only libs think Fox News is far right.

20 posted on 02/01/2014 11:26:42 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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