From Media Bistro:

That’s less than 20 million (19,940,000) for all three combined, and a 5.4% drop from the low-water mark of a year ago.

The 25-54 demo for all three nets was under 6 million (5,920,000), and their combined 25-54 demo ratings of 4.9/21 are down 14% and 19% from last year’s 5.7/26.

Ouch.

You don’t suppose that almost 20 years of Media Research Center truth-telling about the relentless bias in the nets’ evening news shows might have something to do with the ongoing decline? Nah, can’t be (/sarcasm).

Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.

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Previous Posts:
- May 26, 2007 — Not Just Katie: Overall Evening News Plummet Continues
- July 11, 2006 — Big Three Network Evening News Viewership Has Dropped Like a Rock This Year
- July 12, 2005 — Nightly News Bias Continues, and Why It Won’t Stop Anytime Soon

I am pleased to announce that BizzyBlog has entered into a non-exclusive arrangement with Pajamas Media. A list of PJM bloggers (sans BizzyBlog at the moment, but presumably not for long), is here.

Over time, other things, as of yet undefined, may develop from this early-stage relationship. Stay tuned.

Headline Bias –

Clinton Slams Bush Over Libby Maneuver

Maneuver? (synonyms: plan, scheme, plot, tactic, trick) “Decision” also has eight letters, and has the unique advantage (to non-agenda-driven people) of being neutral.

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Can’t Happen Fast Enough — “The American scientific establishment is starting to take baby steps away from taking sides in the politics of global warming” (HT e-mailer Larwyn). Too many opportunists in the establishment have embraced globaloney and globalarmism. The presumption of credibility of scientific findings in general has taken a serious hit. It will take a long time to undo to the damage, if it can even be done.

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George Will takes note of some long, long overdue rethinking of FDR’s economic and domestic-policy legacy:

In 1937, during the depression within the Depression, there occurred the steepest drop in industrial production ever recorded. By January 1938 the unemployment rate was back up to 17.4 percent. The war, not the New Deal, defeated the Depression. Franklin Roosevelt’s success was in altering the practice of American politics.

This transformation was actually assisted by the misguided policies — including government-created uncertainties that paralyzed investors — that prolonged the Depression. This seemed to validate the notion that the crisis was permanent, so government must be forever hyperactive.

Will’s column was inspired by Amity Schlaes’s new book about the 1930s, “The Forgotten Man.” Ohio University professor Alonzo Hamby reviewed it at OpinionJournal.com a couple of weeks ago.

From Bushkill Township, PA:

Sunday, July 01, 2007

DeAnn Oswald suffered severe blood loss after falling.

June 2 was like any other Saturday for DeAnn Oswald. It was a routine, relaxing weekend at home with her husband and two boys. At least it was before she stepped into her bedroom and stumbled.

Oswald threw out her arms as she fell and to her horror, snagged her left forearm on the corner of the fireplace.

“It sliced it wide open,” Oswald said. “I was dripping blood everywhere.”

Township police officer Doug Schlegel has been responding to calls like hers for 25 years. Even he was shocked by what he saw.

“This was one of the nastiest (injuries) I’ve seen,” Schlegel said. “It ranks up there as one of the worst.”

The cut ran from her wrist to about an inch below her elbow and sank through her soft tissue all the way to the bone.

Oswald’s stumble — she blamed it on a not-so-sturdy pair of flip-flops — severed several tendons and the muscles in her forearm. She’s had surgery and is now undergoing physical therapy to regain full use of her hand.

The 37-year-old is positive that Schlegel and the Nazareth Ambulance Corps saved her life.

Go here for the rest of the story.