Fox News #1
Tue, January 26, 2010 Filed in: Television
Fox News becomes the #1 channel on all of cable.
The week of January 18 to 25, Fox News was the number one cable channel in primetime. Not just the number one news channel. The number one channel on cable with 3,213,000 viewers. Much of that surely is attributed to the fact that it was a big news week with the earthquake in Haiti. Still, this makes me wonder about the apparent hypocrisy of the American TV viewer and the difficulty news managers have in dealing with it.
Consistently, news viewers claim they just want the “news”. Just the facts. They rebel at the thought of any perceived bias. So why then the popularity of Fox? Fox itself claims to be a commentary channel for most of their daypartsThey have a agenda and they are straight up front about it, despite their tag line. Whether you agree with their side of stories is not the point here. CNN and MSNBC also have a bias, but CNN’s is not as flagrant, and I don’t think as intentional. MSNBC is moving publicly towards a liberal bias, but still, not as much as Fox is conservative....although they are trying!
So America, do you want the news? Do you want to know the facts of a situation? Or are you more interested in a group of people who you can agree with? Journalism is a key part of our society. It was once the watchdog, letting us know about Watergate, Iran-Contra, Teapot Dome. Are we a country that no longer wants the truth but would just rather feel we are right?
FACTOID:
CNN covered the Haiti earthquake story more then all other cable news channels....combined.
source: Journalism.org
Consistently, news viewers claim they just want the “news”. Just the facts. They rebel at the thought of any perceived bias. So why then the popularity of Fox? Fox itself claims to be a commentary channel for most of their daypartsThey have a agenda and they are straight up front about it, despite their tag line. Whether you agree with their side of stories is not the point here. CNN and MSNBC also have a bias, but CNN’s is not as flagrant, and I don’t think as intentional. MSNBC is moving publicly towards a liberal bias, but still, not as much as Fox is conservative....although they are trying!
So America, do you want the news? Do you want to know the facts of a situation? Or are you more interested in a group of people who you can agree with? Journalism is a key part of our society. It was once the watchdog, letting us know about Watergate, Iran-Contra, Teapot Dome. Are we a country that no longer wants the truth but would just rather feel we are right?
FACTOID:
CNN covered the Haiti earthquake story more then all other cable news channels....combined.
source: Journalism.org