FOX News is Thriving

[Sophus]

Some of you had suggested in the "Barack Obama" thread that perhaps the extreme conservatives only appear to have the upper hand right now because they are louder. However, under the Democratic leadership FOX News' ratings are thriving while CNN, a much less opinionated and much more honest station, is doing quite poorly. If their ratings are growing, are the converting more people over to their nonsense? Making more otherwise middle of the road folks or more rational Republicans into extremists?

[The Magic Pudding]

The conservatives may stick to the same old medium, progressives move to new media.

I wonder how Rupert Murdoch justifies Fox to himself, are the dollars enough?
I don't think he is a right wing at all costs person, but he runs this ugly thing.

[karadan]

The conservatives may stick to the same old medium, progressives move to new media.

I wonder how Rupert Murdoch justifies Fox to himself, are the dollars enough?
I don't think he is a right wing at all costs person, but he runs this ugly thing.

If there really is a soul, Rupert Murdoch sold his years ago. The man has utterly no moral fibre whatsoever.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Some of you had suggested in the "Barack Obama" thread that perhaps the extreme conservatives only appear to have the upper hand right now because they are louder. However, under the Democratic leadership FOX News' ratings are thriving while CNN, a much less opinionated and much more honest station, is doing quite poorly. If their ratings are growing, are the converting more people over to their nonsense? Making more otherwise middle of the road folks or more rational Republicans into extremists?

It's not really surprising, to me.  Conservatives will be more disaffected under a Democratic Presidency.  Given that people of all political persuasions tend to prefer inputs that comfort and not challenge their own views -- and given that television is an easily accessible media that doesn't demand activism on the part of viewers, it seems normal that their ratings should be growing now, just as the membership of the ACLU grew by 170,000 members during the Bush Administration.

Polarization tends to benefit the poles.

[elliebean]

Polarization tends to benefit the poles.

...especially when the system doesn't have enough czecks.

Sorry.  

[Sophus]

Did anyone else's local FOX News network announce this morning that we may be in for a "double dipping recession"? I did a to see what they were talking about but found this instead:

Jobless Claims Fall More Than Expected
New claims for jobless benefits by U.S. workers fell by 31,000 last week to 473,000, marking the first decline in a month.
The unemployment rate in the United States still stands at 9.5 percent and economists have suggested that growth has stalled, predicting more of the same in the coming months.

Is FOX making stuff up again or what?

[KDbeads]

I read something about another housing crash that could possibly happen if the economy doesn't start adding jobs soon.  It was on MSNBC but I can't seem to find it now.  It was more of a theoretical what if article than an all out gloom and doom.  But I'm still skeptical about any recovery anytime soon, call it gut feeling from what we've seen out here, it's going to be a loooooooong while before home sales go up again.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah, sales of existing homes fell 27%, it was announced yesterday, and new home sales were announced this morning to be collapsing too.

[The Magic Pudding]

Talk of a double dip recession seems to have been fairly constant since the first crash.
Don't they talk about it over there?
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&s ... gle+Search

[Heretical Rants]

Polarization tends to benefit the poles.

...especially when the system doesn't have enough czecks.

Sorry.  :hide2:

I lol´d

[Thumpalumpacus]

Polarization tends to benefit the poles.

...especially when the system doesn't have enough czecks.

Sorry.  

Gosh, now I'm Hungary for punnery.

[KDbeads]

Found this a couple of minutes ago:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38871203/ns ... he_economy

[Whitney]

Talk of a double dip recession seems to have been fairly constant since the first crash.

CBC (canada) was talking about it on their international news podcast today....they basically said there is a chance that once the gov stimulus funds run out that things could slide down again if further stimulus isn't used.  I think it has a lot to do with trust in the market and getting those with the money to spend it; and they are probably waiting on the nov elections and won't spend if the dem's do well (as most rich people tend to be republicans because that party favors the rich).  It's like self fulfilling prophecy...the repubs will get voted in, the economy will "magically" go up and they'll say "SEE, we told you so" when really they were the cause all along due to their fear-mongering.

[Ultima22689]

Talk of a double dip recession seems to have been fairly constant since the first crash.

CBC (canada) was talking about it on their international news podcast today....they basically said there is a chance that once the gov stimulus funds run out that things could slide down again if further stimulus isn't used.  I think it has a lot to do with trust in the market and getting those with the money to spend it; and they are probably waiting on the nov elections and won't spend if the dem's do well (as most rich people tend to be republicans because that party favors the rich).  It's like self fulfilling prophecy...the repubs will get voted in, the economy will "magically" go up and they'll say "SEE, we told you so" when really they were the cause all along due to their fear-mongering.

It's a never ending cycle. If Obama and the democrats would let their balls descend and go all out with policy they could probably fix alot of these problems but they don't.

[Ultima22689]

Talk of a double dip recession seems to have been fairly constant since the first crash.

CBC (canada) was talking about it on their international news podcast today....they basically said there is a chance that once the gov stimulus funds run out that things could slide down again if further stimulus isn't used.  I think it has a lot to do with trust in the market and getting those with the money to spend it; and they are probably waiting on the nov elections and won't spend if the dem's do well (as most rich people tend to be republicans because that party favors the rich).  It's like self fulfilling prophecy...the repubs will get voted in, the economy will "magically" go up and they'll say "SEE, we told you so" when really they were the cause all along due to their fear-mongering.

It's a never ending cycle. If Obama and the democrats would let their balls descend and go all out with policy they could probably fix alot of these problems but they don't. It's going to take a president on par with the likes of JFK to actually do something and I don't think that we will ever get that with the current generation of politicians. If the current congress doesn't turn the country into a shithole i'm sure the next generation of politicians, democratic or republican will prove to be far more competent than what we have today and we may even see real presidents again.