[Vision2020] Election Night 2010 Ratings: Fox News Dominates With 7 Million Viewers

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Sunday 07 November 2010 17:28:00 Ted Moffett wrote:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/election-night-2010-ratin_n_778420
> .html 
<[snip]>
> In the 10PM hour, Fox News even beat the three broadcast networks,
> according to the preliminary ratings data (final ratings for the
> broadcast networks is not available until Thursday). The network
> averaged 6.9 million total viewers to NBC's 6.1 million ABC's 5.9
> million and CBS' 6.0 million.

Let us not fail to notice that these ratings were obtained on the same night 
that occurred the greatest shift in recent memory of U.S. Federal legislative 
seats from Democrat to Republican partisans. Control of the U.S. House of 
Representatives changed from Democrat to Republican, and the percentage of 
Democrats in the U.S. Senate was reduced.

That such high ratings coincided with the voting performance of millions who 
delivered a shellacking to various Democratic incumbents is not surprising, 
especially considering those millions were accustomed to FOX's ongoing fund 
raising activities for Republican Party candidates. Viewers were merely tuning 
in to learn how effective were their contributions, not to receive actual 
journalistic news presentations.

Here is a link to Rachel Maddow discussing the difference between professional 
journalism and FOX propaganda and fund raising en masque as what it is not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZnMumCKXU 


Ken