Fox News Channel kicks the other cable news channels month after month.  I find this somewhat hard to explain as the channel is completely bias, slanted, tilted and in the back pocket of right-wing conservatives.  But then again hard-core conservatives feel they are at war with the other political factions in the U.S.A.  And these right-wingers watch a lot of news T.V. to keep tabs on how the war is progressing.

Bill O’Reilly (above) is just a big bombastic buffoon who never listens to anybody else.  If he has a couple of the FNC blonde bimbo commentators on the set with him, he just ignores what they are trying to say, and continues on with his nonsensical diatribes.  He treats guests on his show like lepers.  He keeps his distance and appears to want to get rid of them as fast as possible.

Hannity is a former sports commentator turned politico ignoramus.  He is so uniformed that he makes George W. Bush look like an Ivy League political science prof guru.  The rest of the crew on FNC, including Greta Van Susteren, are so obsessed with the war to defeat Obama and any other liberals that they spew vitriol hatred that makes the late Ayotallah Khomeini seem reasonable.

Back at CNN Anderson Cooper can get really boring.  And his topics sometimes are comparable to sleeping aids.  That thick accented Brit Piers Morgan, who replaced Larry King, can barely be understood at times with that upper class London dialect.  Morgan also acts not like an interviewer but like a commentator most of the time.  He starts getting into tangents where he seems to be interviewing himself, on topics that he knows nothing about.

Rachel Maddow on  MSNBC is always interesting and original.  And Ed Schultz from The Ed Show on MSNBC played a year for the Blue Bombers.  In my books that makes him a good guy.  He also ties into right-wing conservatives like a rabid grizzly on a killing spree.  He is one of the few liberal commentators that takes no prisoners.

And so the cable news wars continue, let the most outrageously misinformed and dishonest not win.

 FBN stands for Fox Business News.  HLN is CNN’s Headline News.

Source: TV by the Numbers

Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for November 14, 2011

 

		P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
Total Day
FNC		1,253	328	609
CNN		377	123	164
MSNBC		464	126	218
CNBC		183	60	111
FBN		56	15	28
HLN		222	73	107
Primetime		P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC		2,366	574	1,081
CNN		539	163	235
MSNBC		833	208	359
CNBC		138	57	84
FBN		46	17	25
HLN		352	78	132
Net	Morning programs (6-9 AM)	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	FOX & Friends	1,121	331	642
CNN	American Morning	229	121	115
MSNBC	Morning Joe	416	157	227
CNBC	Squawk Box	206	70	133
HLN	Morning Express w/ Meade	234	98	135
Net	5PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	FIVE, THE	1,525	364	650
CNN	Situation Room	572	165	221
MSNBC	Hardball WITH C. MATTHEWS	866	164	347
CNBC	FAST MONEY	160	34	90
HLN	HLN SPECIAL REPORT	182	59	73
Net	6PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER	2,104	493	836
CNN	John King USA	552	111	177
MSNBC	POLITICS NATION	734	147	347
CNBC	Mad Money	126	28	68
HLN	Prime News	293	113	145
Net	7PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	The Fox Report W/S.SMITH	1,969	435	864
CNN	ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT	465	121	192
MSNBC	Hardball WITH C. MATTHEWS	819	191	404
CNBC	Kudlow Report	185	57	106
HLN	ISSUES	395	140	193
Net	8PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	THE OREILLY FACTOR	3,185	725	1,404
CNN	Anderson Cooper 360	507	157	236
MSNBC	Ed Show	907	202	405
CNBC	BILLIONS BEHIND BARS	181	61	103
HLN	Nancy Grace	450	122	167
Net	9PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	Hannity	2,207	568	1,066
CNN	Piers Morgan Tonight	544	126	195
MSNBC	Rachel Maddow Show	814	245	366
CNBC	SPRAWLING FROM GRACE	69	24	47
HLN	Dr. Drew	299	41	111
Net	10PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	ON THE RECORD W/GRETA	1,669	409	741
CNN	Anderson Cooper 360	565	206	275
MSNBC	Last Word W/ L. ODONNELL	766	173	302
CNBC	AMERICAN GREED	165	88	104
HLN	Joy Behar	326	78	126
Net	11PM	P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
FNC	THE OREILLY FACTOR	1,258	410	665
CNN	ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT	333	102	167
MSNBC	Ed Show	406	153	228
CNBC	Mad Money	138	96	110
HLN	SHOWBIZ TONIGHT	283	109	145

P2+ = viewers over the age of 2

(25-54) = Adults 25-54 viewing

(35-64) = Adults 35-64 viewing

Prime Time = 8-11pm

While watching a lot of CNN I have become confounded at the networks panel of experts set-up.  When the news channel discusses leading news topics like the economy, the war in Libya or Somali pirates they bring on experts to discuss those issues.  And the panels of experts seem to be getting bigger and bigger.  The host, whether it be Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer or whoever, begins to introduce the panelists.  As I watch I am expecting maybe 2-3 panelists, maybe 3-4 maximum.  But lately CNN starts bringing on 6-7 panelists to discuss an issue during a 15 minute segment.

Each panelist gets one chance to blurt out their opinions.  The good ones are muffled for most of the segment while we are forced to listen to the less talented pundits.  Why not just bring out 2 or 3 of the best panelists so we can get logical analysis?  They bring out so many panelists you don’t have a clue to who is talking.  It gets very confusing.

The Casey Anthony murder trial is a real circus in terms of panelists.  From profilers to body language experts the panels on this story are very crowded.  They have even brought out Marcia Clark, the prosecution attorney who botched the O.J. Simpson trial.  Who wants to listen to that incompetent bimbo?

Below is a panel, that I think I saw, analysing the Weinergate story.  Weinergate is the story of horny New York congressman Anthony Weiner who sent pictures of his erect member to women via email.  Why is it that so many politicians just can’t keep their libido under control?  They are like alley cats in heat for crying out loud.

Anyway here is the panel that discussed whether Weiner should resign or stay on.  And whether he should receive treatment at the Tiger Woods Institute for the Abnormally Sexually Aroused.

Covering The Royal Wedding

It is finally over.  Thank the Gods for that.  It was overkill in its most obnoxious form.  The media jumped on the bandwagon and soaked it up to no end.

The media is going to great lengths to cover the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton this Friday, with CNN alone dedicating 125 reporters to the event. Here are some of the extremes media outlets are undertaking:

• National Geographic: Placing two teams of cameramen in blinds outside Westminster Abbey for three months, waiting to get that perfect shot of the nesting pair
• New York Post: Shoe mirrors to see who Middleton is wearing, panty-wise
• The Sun: Having an anonymous source plant an alien inside the reception, hiring a translator to find out what it experienced
• 60 Minutes: Sending a blond-bewigged Morley Safer through security as Camilla Parker Bowles
• BBC: Using its TARDIS to materialize inside the security perimeter
• Dateline NBC: Erecting a decoy abbey right next to Westminster and ambush-interviewing whichever guests mistakenly walk in
• Agence-France Presse: Sending a correspondent to Calais with a telescope to confirm that the boorish English and their cloud-condemned island are still there
• Cat Fancy: Four-part series on the growing irrelevance of the British royalty and its long-term effect on the working class

 

Fox News Channel (FNC) is way out in front in the cable news wars in the United States.  In my opinion this is surprising considering that Fox is as biased as it gets.  They espouse the conservative right-wing point of view with unrelenting ferocious tenacity.  They do not really report the news, they report the views that they want to become the news.  Does the name Joseph Goebbels come to mind?

From Sean Hannity to the bully Bill O’Reilly the commentators are sound pieces for the American far right-wing.  Sarah Palin with all her verbal gaffes and blatant ignorance is depicted as one of the news analyst gurus on the station.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

 

And then there is Glenn Beck.  This guy is completely off his rocker.  A combination of conspiracy theorist and coming Armageddon soul saver.  He believes the world is being taken over by a socialist global power group that wants to promote an atheistic unified world order. This guy converted to Mormonism, enough said.  And yet his ratings are sky high.

He caters to the paranoia of  many Americans.

 

It is possible that many liberal Americans just don’t spend much time watching cable news channels.  While paranoid right-wing Americans (a la Tea Party types) are always tuning in to find out what the demon enemy is up to now.  They want to know if they should go ahead and spend that 60 grand on the doomsday shelter.  And Fox propagandists give them a minute by minute analysis of the machinations of the godless hordes.

Below are the ratings.  FBN is Fox Business Channel.

Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for March 31, 2011

		P2+ (000s)	25-54 (000s)	35-64 (000s)
Total Day
FNC		1,316	314	631
CNN		455	148	230
MSNBC		415	123	185
CNBC		175	52	93
FBN		72	21	42
HLN		237	110	142