FoxNoise is beginning to feel the heat.

[11 Bravo]

The self-proclaimed "most powerful name in cable news" is watching helplessly as ratings growth for CNN and MSNBC far outstrips the paltry gains made at Fox. Somewhere, deep down, I never lost hope that the American people couldn't really be that fucking stupid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/arts/television/28rati.html?th&emc=th

[loveable liberal]

1. 28 percent are that effing stupid.

I am sorry to report.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. They're the ones John Dean very correctly labeled

"immunized from reality."

[Faygo Kid]

2. Very good news. Faux can never grow; that's its problem.

It is trapped in its self-created right-wing cocoon, and it gets great ratings from the 20 percent of Americans who still love George W. Bush. But that's it, and most people have moved on.

That's why you see sex sex sex on Faux so much now. It's the New York Post. Murdoch has nothing else to add.

[tblue37]

15. Cenk Uygur reports that the AVERAGE age of FOX News

viwers is 71. Not a growth market.

[CrispyQ]

24. ...

:rofl:

That really struck my funny bone!

[tblue37]

28. The article in which he reports this bit of information has some

very funny bits. Here is the last part:

Given these facts, it's not hard to see why O'Reilly is losing viewers. They're not dying to watch him, they're dying while watching him. His audience is so old Barbara Bush was jailbait when they were growing up. His audience is so old they remember how hot Betty Rubble was in high school. His audience is so old they don't remember when Iraq was like the Garden of Eden, they remember when Iraq was the Garden of Eden.

Let's get real, O'Reilly's audience has fallen and they can't get up.

I love it! Here is another cute paragraph from the piece:

So, it turns out this big, bad, powerful O'Reilly is basically doing a show at a senior citizen's center. Are O'Reilly's viewers going to determine where this country is heading? We can't even tell where they're heading because they won't turn off their left blinker.

[lpbk2713]

3. I'd tune in just to see how desperate they have become ...

... I know I'd LMAO but it's just not worth it.

[Mz Pip]

4. Fox is a one trick pony

and even the most brain dead of people get tired of seeing the same trick over and over again. That is particularly true when they finally figure out the trick. Kind of hard to keep tuning in to hear how wonderful things are going when all you have to do is look around you and see that it just isn't so.

I watched about 5 minutes of the business news on Fox this morning and to listen to them talk the stock market isn't really all that bad and if anything, it's a super time to buy!!! Yay! Take your spare gas money America and go by some stocks.

[Aristus]

5. K&R!

At last!

How are you doing, 11 Bang? :hi:

[Botany]

6. Expect Fox News to show more leg

[Submariner]

8. Channel surfing yesterday

They did a "topless with pasties" servers at a drive-through coffee booth that had to put bikini tops on due to a local ordinance. What I noticed was Fox going out of it's way to get the most salacious camera angles and shots to rev up their 20 percenters. Twisted stuff for supposedly a News program.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Was that photo taken under Hannity's desk?

Rumor has it he doesn't wear underwear, anyway.

[bluerum]

7. After the nonsense becomes so ubelievable that only a complete moran

would sit and drool into their beer through another evening of O'Lier and Henutty.

Fact is they bought into it all for more than 8 years.

They watched and drooled on themselves as Bill Clinton was impeached.

They watched and drooled as missiles, rockets and gunfire destroyed homes and lives.

They enabled OUR country to be trashed by theiv'in lyin republican corporatist scum.

And ONLY when gas is over $4 a gallon, AFTER everything they own has been devalued %10 (at least), AFTER property taxes (if they are lucky enough to still have a house) have doubled, AFTER health care costs have become give aways to the insurance industry do they realize that there is a disconnect between the crap they are being fed and real life and the economy.

They ARE that stoopid.

[Buzz Clik]

10. The graphic:

[HughMoran]

11. Fox Noise - for those lazy old folks who need someone to think for them

:rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. I don't know if this is true, but

a long time ago, here at DU, someone posted that Fox News was a part of the Dish's basic plan, and that was where a lot of their viewers came from.

Rather a captive audience, if you can't afford a bigger selection.

[CrispyQ]

25. I have Dish basic & we get the local FOX station, but not FOX news.

No MSNBC either. We get CNN & CNNs Headline News & CSPAN.

If we got Fox, I'd have to learn how to block a station. ;)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

27. Whew......

You're safe, then. Good!

[AndyTiedye]

14. They Have All the Networks Singing their Tune Now Though

Their ratings are down because ALL of the networks are competing for the wingnut viewers.

[SoCalDem]

26. Yep. their work is done.. They polluted all the others

I can still remember when CNN started with all the crawls & swooshing noises like Fox..

[CanonRay]

16. All we needed was an alternative: KO

[pacalo]

20. So true -- all that was needed was an alternative from the lock-step cheerleading.

I'm guessing that a sizeable portion of Faux's ratings are attributable to critics who are taking note of Faux's disinformation & downright lies.

[David Zephyr]

17. The Democrats boycotted Fox and this article shows how those debate nights hurt Fox.

Paybacks are a bitch.

[Name removed]

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[11 Bravo]

21. Enjoy your stay.

[mitchtv]

22. Welcome to DU (Democratic Undeground)

enjoy yur stay:popcorn:

[Faygo Kid]

23. "Barr '08." Nice. Didn't you mean Tripe for your screen name? G'bye.

Get out of your parents' basement once in a while.

[slay]

19. Rapper Nas slams Fox and FoxNews in his new song Sly Fox (link)

Check it out here -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=blxF1aRuunc

[tabasco]

29. The other networks are hardly any better.

They are all republican-owned and spew corporate/republican-friendly propaganda.

Fox is over the top Pravda. The others attempt to maintain credibility by allowing limited, but minimal, balanced programming (e.g. Olberman).

[lonestarnot]

30. Yeah!

K & R

[Tatiana]

31. Everyone who has Dish network should block Faux News.

Also, make sure to DVR Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann.

All the corporate media sucks, with Faux being the GOP Propaganda Network.

Hopefully, Faux's ratings will continue to tank.