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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 26, 2015 0:13:14 GMT -5
no. the audience chooses the media, not the other way around. CNN would love to have the upper income conservatives that FOX has, but they also really want the 25-34 group, which, as you correctly stated, don't watch a lot of cable news (but when they do, overwhelmingly do NOT choose FOX news). if i were to do a long term short play, it would be for FOX News. their demographic is dying, and i think that it is really poor long term corporate planning to not fix that. but you are not actually fashioning an argument in your defense here, either, since clearly FOX's audience is WAY older than CNN's. your absurdist argument leading to division by zero not withstanding, the facts are the facts, and you not only have not denied them or refuted them, you have actually substantiated them. I'm not sure what argument you think I'm trying to make, but stated very simply, it's: i) mean age of FOX news consumer ≠ 68, and ii) any argument [mean age of FOX news consumer = 68] → X does not allow one to posit X, because the predicate is false. I don't care what CNN's mean viewership age is relative to FOX's. It's irrelevant. My joke (note: not an absurdist argument, a joke) about CNN draws on the fact that CNN's television viewership, both in comparison to its past viewership and to FOX news viewership, is notably low. In other words: Take a chill pill, bro. whatevs.
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Post by b2r on Mar 26, 2015 0:28:56 GMT -5
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 26, 2015 1:14:02 GMT -5
yeah, it is shocking how few people watch FOX news. about 1% of US households. your point?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 26, 2015 2:10:44 GMT -5
yeah, it is shocking how few people watch FOX news. about 1% of US households. your point? Possibly: What's 25% of shockingly few people?
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 26, 2015 2:27:27 GMT -5
yeah, it is shocking how few people watch FOX news. about 1% of US households. your point? Possibly: What's 25% of shockingly few people? miniscule, which is great. cable news is bad for Democracy. edit: seriously, tho- i don't think that hitting 1% of households is much to brag about. but i have yet to meet a conservative that agrees with me.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 26, 2015 5:40:05 GMT -5
Well, they didn't survey this old broad or they would know that some of us old as dirt don't watch any of the cable/network news. I get all my news from TMZ and Dish Nation. Time has taught me that any newscast/story is usually a crock of shit as far as truth is concerned - shades of Vietnam era reporting
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Mar 26, 2015 8:05:10 GMT -5
Fun killers!
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