http://truenorthnewsandcommentary.com/2009/10/26/im-seeing-double-standards/ Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:29:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://truenorthnewsandcommentary.com/2009/10/26/im-seeing-double-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Brad Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:52:19 +0000 http://truenorthnewsandcommentary.com/?p=1405#comment-64 I don't think that people in general care so much about being well-informed on the news as they do being entertained. Perhaps Anderson Cooper's low ratings are due to the fact that he is rather dry and boring compared to Fox's Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck who may at any minute be on the verge of tearing some "liberal loon" a new one. The traditionally conservative folks in the countryside eat that stuff up. You get more viewers by demonizing the enemy, much like you guys seem to do on this website (which is hardly independent as you boast), than by attempting to hold rational and fair debate. The White House is correct in considering Fox News an oppositional advocacy group rather than a news organization. And no, I think that people are voting the way that they have traditionally voted, and Obama won, even at a time when Fox News' ratings were higher than those of other cable news networks. I don’t think that people in general care so much about being well-informed on the news as they do being entertained. Perhaps Anderson Cooper’s low ratings are due to the fact that he is rather dry and boring compared to Fox’s Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck who may at any minute be on the verge of tearing some “liberal loon” a new one. The traditionally conservative folks in the countryside eat that stuff up. You get more viewers by demonizing the enemy, much like you guys seem to do on this website (which is hardly independent as you boast), than by attempting to hold rational and fair debate. The White House is correct in considering Fox News an oppositional advocacy group rather than a news organization. And no, I think that people are voting the way that they have traditionally voted, and Obama won, even at a time when Fox News’ ratings were higher than those of other cable news networks.

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