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   From: Hellmstoffer@nonuyerbuisiness.net   
      
   Leland Milton Goldblatt PhD wrote in message   
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   >Week Of Bad News: "Conservatives Stopped Watching," Reese Says   
   >Reese Schonfeld analyzes the Cynopsis #s, and his conclusion is   
   >fascinating:   
   >  "I've always kind of wondered how much of Fox success should be   
   >attributed to conservative rejoicing. The numbers suggest 7%."   
   >"I think a lot of conservatives stopped watching" all the   
   >bad-news-for-Bush last week, Reese says. He compares market share of   
   >the "conservative network" and "less ideological networks" in March   
   >and May, and finds reason to offer this analysis:   
   >  "I think FoxNews ratings are as reliable a guide to the attitudes of   
   >the American electorate as even the best of the political polls and   
   >all the networks should carry the market share numbers right after   
   >Gallop, Newsweek and the L.A. Times."   
      
      
   The thing that makes Fox appealing to conservatives, and some of the more   
   gullible elements of middle America, is the perception that almost the   
   entire media is "liberal," is horribly distorting the truth, and these poor,   
   poor conservatives are just being mercilessly picked on and bullied by the   
   big, mean media.   
      
   Of course, convincing millions of Americans that Rupert Murdoch, Rush   
   Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Viacom, Westinghouse, Clear Channel, General   
   Electric, The Republican Party, Most of The Senate&House, almost half of the   
   Supreme Court, Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, MSNBC, Exxon/Mobil,   
   Halliburton, Ohio, Indiana, most of Missouri, General Motors and General   
   Dynamics (among others) are just innocent, blind little kittens in the   
   wilderness being savagely pushed around by Susan Sarandon and Ralph Nader   
   was never an easy sell. It's not your usual load of right-wing bullshit.   
   It's such a colossal load that it has to be (and is) reinforced almost   
   hourly by these people. What they've done-brilliantly-is to use Republican   
   corruption as a weapon against the "liberal media," which was never really   
   liberal. It just seemed that way to the handful of fringe lunatics like Ann   
   Coulter and Brent Bozell who have had a deathgrip on the Republican party   
   for about 10 years now. And it's been a damned effective weapon because to   
   many Americans, it's now not conceivable that a Republican could ever be   
   guilty of anything. When one of them gets caught it just reinforces the idea   
   that they're being picked on.   
      
   It feeds on itself. The sleazier the Republicans become, the less   
   accountable they become.   
      
   It's amazing they've been able to sell it to as many people as they have for   
   as long as they have, but all good things must come to an end. You can't   
   fool all the people all the time.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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