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4.11.2005

Why Fox News Will ALWAYS Whip CNN

Check out these clueless comments from incoming CNN president Jonathan Klein, who apparently has never spent any time outside LA and New York:

'Rabid' Fox
CNN has another new network president, its fifth in four years. Jonathan Klein's mission: take back the million-plus viewers CNN has lost to Fox News Channel in fewer than four years.
Take ever-important prime-time numbers (7 to 11 p.m.), as examined by Nielsen Media Research -- CNN: 775,000 viewers (Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Paula Zahn, Aaron Brown); Fox: 2 million viewers (Shephard Smith, Sean Hannity & Alan Colmes, Bill O'Reilly).
Mr. Klein's assessment of his competition?
"They've tapped into an outrage that's lurking among a certain small segment of the population, mostly angry white men, and those men tend to be rabid," the new CNN chief tells Charlie Rose of PBS. "They tend to be habitual. They tend to like to have their points of view reinforced."
And CNN?
"And a, quote-unquote, 'progressive' or 'liberal' network probably couldn't reach the same sort of an audience, because liberals tend to like to sample a lot of opinions," Mr. Klein continues. "They pride themselves on that. And you know, they don't get too worked up about anything. And they're pretty morally relativistic. And so, you know, they allow for a lot of that stuff. You know, Fox is very appealing to people who like to get worked up over things."


Yeah, that's right. It's only the knuckledraggers watching Fox. That's why you're getting your butt handed to you, night after night.

But even if your reasoning were sound, wouldn't that argue for more conservatives on CNN, so as to give liberals the diversity of opinion you think they crave?

1 Comments:

karen said...

:) My parents watch nothing BUT Fox. I'll have to measure their forearms!

9:53 PM  

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