The Seablogger makes a good point about the liberal media, which explains why FoxNews, the news that liberals and their running buddies in Big Media love to hate, has outstripped CNN and MSNBC combined in viewership: it is not boring. CNN, et al, have the same predictable la-de-da day after day. Comforting to the convinced, I suppose, but not very interesting to anybody else.
I’ve opined before that this could be one of the biggest problems newspapers have today: they are so predictable. Not only do they all look the same, having the same layouts, the same focus, etc., but they have the same NYTimes and WaPo stories on their front pages. We also know they’re all for diversity, multiculturalism, affirmative action, gun control, abortion, illegal immigration from Mexico, and that they just love Barry and Michelle, and distrust Republicans. So where do those who argue with some or all of that stuff–which is a lot of people, altogether–go? Well, the Internet, for one. And FoxNews, for another.
I kind of like it when CNN, et al, attack FoxNews for whatever. That is the way American journalism used to be. Newspapers not only tried to outdo each other, they attacked each other. And made $$$. But that was before credential creep, where every journalist now needs a degree from similar liberal journalism schools to get a Big Media job. Pity them not their decline. They fouled their own nests.
UPDATE: A perfect example of how in-the-tank CNN is for Barry: You could compare W to Hitler and they’d never bat an eye. Do it to Barry and you get a microphone stuck in your face.
















The allure of muscular journalism is undeniable. What was that Mark Twain’s story about editing a newspaper and being shot and otherwise mutilated for all the trouble?
I am afraid, though, that Fox is carrying a few characters that are a bit too much.
I must have missed that Twain story, sorry. I’m sure Fox is excessive. So is the NYTimes, and most media in one way or another.