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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:22 PM
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Fox News Tops Bush-Speech Ratings (CNN second & MSNBC third)

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6293189.html?display=Breaking+News

Fox News Tops Bush-Speech Ratings

Fox News Channel was the place most cable viewers gravitated toward to watch President Bush’s address about Iraq Sunday night.

Fox News averaged 2.28 million viewers between 9:01 p.m.-9:18 p.m. Dec. 18, versus 946,000 for Cable News Network from 9 p.m.-9:18 p.m. and 222,000 for MSNBC from 9:02 p.m.-9:18 p.m., according to Nielsen Media Research data.

As for the analysis that followed, Fox News scored with some 2.22 million viewers from 9:18 p.m.-9:29 p.m., while MSNBC garnered some 432,000 viewers on average from 9:18 p.m.-10 p.m. CNN’s Larry King Live, which immediately followed the address through 10 p.m. Sunday, notched 946,000 viewers on average, according to Nielsen data.


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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:24 PM
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1. They sure do love the little dictator.
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bushcrab Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 12:00 AM
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25. Fox News wool cap worshippers...
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:25 PM
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2. With over 260 million people in the US only 3 million watched?
Sad portrait of the President!!

No wonder their propaganda campaign is failing!!!
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:26 PM
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5. this is just cable viewers, doesn't include those who watched on local
channels. Though I imagine the number being pretty small...
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wookie294 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 06:37 PM
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17. Far more people watch NBC, CBS & ABC than Fox News
It seems ridiculous to do a story on Neilsen ratings without showing the ratings for the big three broadcast networks, which have triple and quadruple the ratings of Fox News. All big three networks covered Bush's speech, right?
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:42 PM
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23. and that in itself says everything
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:29 PM
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7. My wife could only watch the first five minutes
before she left the room in disgust. I watched the whole thing but had to stuff a dirty sock in my mouth to keep from gagging.

It was hard work just listening.
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twaddler01 Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:45 PM
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19. You are brave
Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 08:46 PM by twaddler01
I couldn't have done that...I would still puke without any sock in my mouth :puke:
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Gronk Groks Donating Member (582 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 12:36 AM
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27. Let's see, 3,448,000 households total on the 3 most watched stations...
...figure 2.5 people per household. About 8.5 million watched with maybe another 1/2 million on all other stations. Nine million out of 270 million is about 3% of the population that actually is willing to watch the chimpster try to defend himself against impeachable offenses.

I love it...
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:25 PM
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3. party faithful plus a few straggler news junkies. nt
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:26 PM
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4. Republicans watch a Republican President on the Republican network.
So what else is new.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:29 PM
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8. Yeah. People didn't "gravitate" to Fox. . .
they simply turned on what they ordinarily watch. Those who don't watch Fox regularly most likely didn't watch Bush.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:37 PM
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21. Ding ding ding! We've got a winner, folks!
For stating the obvious, too!
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:45 PM
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18. My thoughts, exactly. n/t
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 12:22 AM
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26. When you're hooked on kool-aid, you go to the Jim Jones network.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:27 PM
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6. Duh, it's all-*-all-the-time over at Faux anyway
Their new slogan should be "The channel you tune to when you want *."
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twaddler01 Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:47 PM
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20. They call it
"fair and balanced" -- makes me laugh every time i hear it or see it...
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stuckinlucky Donating Member (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:37 PM
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9. That's Odd. I deliberately turned away from FOX...
Because I was expecting "Family Guy." I don't think your average FG viewer would want to hear that dip$#!t talk at all. I know I didn't.
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:37 PM
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10. Not too many paying attention
I think most people, except for the "faithful", have written little Bush off and just don't listem any longer.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:51 PM
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11. Only Fox viewers could stand to watch
for longer than 5 minutes.
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:55 PM
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12. "Dittohead ready to be spun, Sir!"
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harpo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 06:09 PM
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13. 2 notes: "cable viewers" and no mention of C-SPAN
I watched it on C-SPAN
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 06:25 PM
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14. Judge Rules Against Pa. Biology Curriculum
49 minutes ago

HARRISBURG, Pa. - In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise.

U.S. District Judge John E. Jones delivered a stinging attack on the Dover Area School Board, saying its first-in-the-nation decision in October 2004 to insert intelligent design into the science curriculum violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

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A six-week trial over the issue yielded "overwhelming evidence" establishing that intelligent design "is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory," said Jones, a Republican and a churchgoer appointed to the federal bench three years ago.

much more.
http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2005/12/20/287881.html

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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 06:25 PM
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15. right ON!
A victory for reality over voodoo!
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 06:28 PM
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16. Yeah, I really loved this part,

Jones decried the "breathtaking inanity" of the Dover policy and accused several board members of lying to conceal their true motive, which he said was to promote religion.
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:01 PM
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22. Okay, now I KNOW the polls are bogus. n/t
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PatriotGames Donating Member (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 11:18 PM
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24. I watch Fox all the time...
just to see what kind of spin they put everything. LOL
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