[TUF]Catbox wrote:
why is it the douchebag channel...liberal stations have plenty of douchebags to go around also... olbertard and rachel mandow etc
and why does one channel do better than the others combined... because they offer the most diverse programs...
I'm talking straight news on the cable news channels... not the opinion shows on each of them...
People consider it the douchebag channel because of the frivolous nature of many programs, self-aggrandizing nature of the network ("we report, you decide"), and the general inflammatory attitude of many of the hosts on the show.
They don't have diverse programming - they have one show that supposedly represents the left vs. right debate, but at best you could call that far right and right-of-center viewpoints argued on that show. They have Bill O'Rielly, who yes does have evil liberals on his show - but not so they can speak; so Bill can cut them off and yell at them whenever he gets a chance. That isn't diverse, or even original - Wally George made a 40 year career out of it.
The reason the channel does well is because it implements a highly sucessful formula that is basically the same as Rush (which is obvious when you look at viewership records that indicate that almost as many if not more people that disagree with the show watch and/or listen to Rush and Faux). People that disagree with the shows pay attention so that they can scream at the TV and tell their friends and internet forums how ridiculous the viewpoints are.
PS - no "straight news" program on TV has diverse programming - at the core is mainstream media/corporate media controlled viewpoints. The channels do not operate solely to inform the public about the goings on around the world; they operate to earn a profit.
Last edited by KEN-JENNINGS (2008-12-03 16:02:54)