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Originally Posted by TheCouga
Perhaps you should consider how people on the ideological fringe consider objective fact to be biased, since it contradicts their fringe world view. I don't think you have any evidence that the "majority" of people were tired of the way the media was handling things. Yes, there is a market on the ideological fringe of the right wing for a news station that reinforced their fantasies about politics in this nation. I think you'll find, however, that a very large majority of this country finds Fox News to be ridiculous.
Fox doesn't represent half of this country. It has, at most, 3 million viewers at a time. Last time I checked, this country has over 300 million people. So Fox represents, at most, 2 to 3% of the political views of this country, and most of it is the far-right fringe that is going to think anything based in fact is biased, since their world view is not based in fact, but on an ideology. The fact that there is a market for Fox means nothing about whether there is actual bias in the rest of the "mainstream" media. All it proves is that there is a market for a channel that reinforces people's already skewed perception of this world.
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Now you are dismissing Fox's ratings, are you saying the same 3 million people watch Fox all day long? Or are you just repeating something you read off a website, and really didn't understand what you were repeating? Fox's ratings are exceptional, a wise man probably wouldn't use that call their viewership fringe.
Consider your argument, if Fox viewership is the fringe, what does that make you and the channels you watch? Plus 2/3 million viewers is a huge number, considering people who watch cable news tend to be politically involved and registered voters and more informed. The voting population of the United states is not 300 million (obviously), so even if the 2-3% number you tried to get away with meant anything, it would still be an influential amount of voters.
Here is something more reflective of Fox's viewership.
FOX NEWS REACHES ACROSS PARTY LINES at DickMorris.com