Maybe the news channels will wake up and realize what they are doing isn’t working: After years of audience growth, cable news may have hit a wall. According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the News Media report, cable news viewership for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News fell substantially in 2010 […]
We hear the phrase “24 hour news cycle” an awful lot, but in reality we don’t have a 24 hour news cycle. Instead this decade has seen a 24 hour news cycle evolve into a 24 hour opinion cycle. Take the case of my previous post of Mary Matalin claiming that Bush inherited 9/11 and […]
The daily Obama conspiracy yesterday was that the President plans to “desecrate 9/11”: On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference. The plan is to turn a “day of fear” […]
CNN is having some major ratings problems: Through March 17, CNN trailed not only Fox News and MSNBC but also its own sister network, Headline News, on nine out of 17 days. On one day, March 13, CNN even drew fewer 25-to-54 viewers than CNBC — the first time that’s happened since November 2007. And […]
Wow did McCain bomb tonight. Holy shit! HuffPo has the rundown of the news networks, who all gave it to Obama (even FOX). Instead of spending time writing out my words on this, I am going to let Andrew Sullivan speak for me: This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal […]
When Bill Richardson decided to endorse Obama, he said one of the reasons was because of the advisers the Clinton campaign has been using. Now you got Carville out there running his mouth and insulting Richardson. Doesn’t that basically prove what Richardson said? But we are talking about James Carville. This is the guy who […]
I just submitted the following to be asked at tomorrow night’s Democratic debate: We have an epidemic of school shootings plaguing our nation. Nine years ago, the Columbine shooting was all this nation could talk about. Now school shootings seem to have become such a common place that they are just a blurb on the […]
Here is the latest delegate counts from all the major news networks CNN MSNBC FOX CBS ABC AVERAGE Clinton 1033 855 1024 1069 1069 1010 Obama 937 861 933 1001 990 944.4 McCain 714 721 703 700 699 707.4 Huckabee 181 195 190 163 192 184.2 Romney 286 278 293 158 255 254 Paul […]
At 9:00 PM: Senator Barack Obama : 33.29% Senator John Edwards : 32.11% Senator Hillary Clinton : 31.71% Governor Bill Richardson : 1.74% Senator Joe Biden : 1.03% Senator Chris Dodd : 0.07% Uncommitted : 0.05% Precincts Reporting: 659 of 1781 Via the Iowa Democratic Party Caucus Can’t get much closer than that! REPUBLICANS All […]
There has been a lot of coverage on the news networks today about the House’s debate over the resolution to commemorate 9/11. The question is – why today? Should this not have been debated and enacted for the actual anniversary – 3 days ago? Oh wait – I got it. The House was on recess […]