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Mean Daddy, where was this Morris piece published?

The result has been a major shift in American media/news habits. While CBS viewership dropped 15 percent from pre-war totals, ABC fell 6 percent and NBC gained an anemic 3 percent, the Fox News Channel audience rose 236 percent while CNN and MSNBC (with smaller audiences) recorded similarly impressive gains. On morning TV, the cable show Fox and Friends actually drew 2.9 million viewers, more than CBS' 2.8 million on its Early Show - the first time a cable news station has beaten a network news program in ratings (but not the last).

Among younger viewers (18-34), CBS Evening News fell 16 percent while Fox News Channel gained fivefold.

ABCNNBCBS alert, Dave! We can't hold a funeral just yet but they're on their deathbed and refusing last rites. These shifts in viewership demographics are going to kill the socialist networks in coming years. They are doomed now, I think, even if they changed to an unbiased format. Too late to turn it around now.

I agree that ABCNNBCBS, and most of the major left wing fishwraps suffered a severe and maybe mortal blow with their left wing mantra coverage of this war.

They used the DNC Mantras of Hate GW instead of reporting what was happening. The public will not forget.

These paragraphs from this article are a great summary. While Morris is not a guy that one would want as a neighbor, he knows how to read polls and public sentiment. So he nails it with these paragraphs:

"The result has been a major shift in American media/news habits. While CBS viewership dropped 15 percent from pre-war totals, ABC fell 6 percent and NBC gained an anemic 3 percent, the Fox News Channel audience rose 236 percent while CNN and MSNBC (with smaller audiences) recorded similarly impressive gains.

"On morning TV, the cable show Fox and Friends actually drew 2.9 million viewers, more than CBS' 2.8 million on its Early Show - the first time a cable news station has beaten a network news program in ratings (but not the last).

"Among younger viewers (18-34), CBS Evening News fell 16 percent while Fox News Channel gained fivefold.

"But the biggest loser was The New York Times, formerly the newspaper of record, but now reduced - in full public view - to a newspaper of the political opposition. Its readers got to see, in plain view, the paper's pessimism and bias against the Bush administration.

"This has been a rough war for tyrants and those who try to control the thoughts of their people. In Baghdad - but also in Manhattan, at the headquarters of the Times, NBC, CBS and ABC.