Happy New Year: Fox Rocks
This is quite a contrast from the previous post about a newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, that seems bound and determined to turn away readers. Fox News, by contrast, does the exact opposite, and it shows.
From a PDF at Media Bistro (HT Opinipundit):
11 out of the top 12 shows. Wow. It was only in 2001 that O’Reilly’s became the first Fox program to pass Larry King. Now he’s within striking distance of doubling King.
One can only hope that Prince Alwaleed’s money doesn’t ruin it for Fox, and that the incident described at the link was a one-timer.
As to the other cable nets (and the non-Fox major nets, and the non-WSJ major newspapers, and the Associated Press, Reuters, et al — you know, the Worn-Out Reactionary Media [WORMs], known to most as The Mainstream Media) — Rush predicted years ago that if their market share and newsroom business models collapsed, as is occurring now (along with their stock prices), they wouldn’t change what they’re doing or how they’re doing it, and would NEVER ask themselves if their deeply-ingrained institutional biases might be the cause of their decline. So far, he’s right.
