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2007-07-11 Home Front: Culture Wars
Big Three Networks Evening News Viewership Falls to Under 20 Million
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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Don't blame Couric, she's done her part.
Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-07-11 01:17||   2007-07-11 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's not leave out the steadfast and determined effort of Dan Rather.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-11 02:01||   2007-07-11 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems Fred Thompson is the only one who's prepared to make good use of this info. Run Fred, Run!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2007-07-11 02:55||   2007-07-11 02:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Big Three Networks Evening News Viewership Falls to Under 20 Million

My Cockles are Feeling Purrfectally Toasty!

/and Ima'na send em all sum Depends.. ;-)
Posted by RD">RD  2007-07-11 03:13||   2007-07-11 03:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Die, die, die...it can't happen fast enough.
Posted by gromky 2007-07-11 04:56||   2007-07-11 04:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I blame Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the vast right wing conspiracy with Dan Rather deserving honorable mention :)
Posted by Cluper Lumumba3694 2007-07-11 05:54||   2007-07-11 05:54|| Front Page Top

#7 It's all Katie's fault for not saying "sputum."
Posted by Mike 2007-07-11 06:10||   2007-07-11 06:10|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd watch SeeBS news if the staff would line up and slap Katie Curic on air.
Posted by ed 2007-07-11 07:18||   2007-07-11 07:18|| Front Page Top

#9 By a margin of 14 to 1, Americans find something better to do than watch Big News.
Posted by eLarson 2007-07-11 08:49|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-07-11 08:49|| Front Page Top

#10 I suspect news viewership declines are largely because the bulk of the population just doesn't give a s**t about news. The networks have tried to hold them with 24/7 (un)coverage of Paris Hilton and her kind, but all that did was drive the true news market away to Rantburg etc. (but we aren't anything close to a big enough market for Big Media to miss). The bias while dealing with the little real news they carry has also helped purge this market segment. Fox prospered, relatively, for a while, by collecting the left-bias-averse, but even when they had it all, it wasn't enough, so they brought us 24/7 Natalie Holloway. I fear for us more than for the networks.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-07-11 08:53||   2007-07-11 08:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Because of all that has been said above is why the dhimmicrats want to invoke the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" to regain control of the "message" being sent out.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-11 09:11||   2007-07-11 09:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Viewership is dropping because its audience is also dropping, literally. It's the WWII with some latency in the baby boomer generation. They're dying off. TV is no longer 'magic' for younger people for whom it is just another form of cultural static. A lot of people stick with stuff that is in their comfort zone, that gives them routine to frame their daily lives around. Even if it is, from the perspective of newer generations, crappy. It's why old people raise a fuss over tearing down dilapidated buildings and neighborhoods. It's their anchor to their existence even though its an albatross to everyone else's future.
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-07-11 09:17||   2007-07-11 09:17|| Front Page Top

#13 I haven't watched the evening news since '93. Get all my information from the internet (mostly the 'burg too).
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-07-11 10:03||   2007-07-11 10:03|| Front Page Top

#14 This pisses me off! Where's that Nancy Boy I always slap around!
Posted by Katie Couric  2007-07-11 10:28||   2007-07-11 10:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Now if we can win some of the donk voters to become patriotic once again and vote for trunks, and capitolism, and responsibility, and put the lid on the PC bullshit finally, we have won the battle of our lives.
Self fulfillment over stupidity, dependency, and victimization.
Posted by wxjames 2007-07-11 11:01||   2007-07-11 11:01|| Front Page Top

#16 The network news lost me long ago because of the low information density. I could get more news from 3 minutes with a newspaper than 30 minutes with the hairdos ("right after this!"). I missed watching highlights from the OJ trial, but I think I'll live.
Posted by James">James  2007-07-11 11:26|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]  2007-07-11 11:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Add the NYTs and WaPo and LAT to the mix and you have a real decline that the ad people have been paying attention to - the real reason values are down and income is plummeting is lack of growth in ad dollars. Always follow the money.
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2007-07-11 11:31||   2007-07-11 11:31|| Front Page Top

#18 We came to the table for meat and potatoes and they served up Twinkies.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-11 14:58||   2007-07-11 14:58|| Front Page Top

#19 I have not watched the Broadcast networks for so long.... What were their names again?
Posted by 3dc 2007-07-11 15:15||   2007-07-11 15:15|| Front Page Top

#20 

She's doing her best, and that's the truth!
Posted by BigEd 2007-07-11 17:35||   2007-07-11 17:35|| Front Page Top

#21 Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-11 22:18||   2007-07-11 22:18|| Front Page Top

#22 Jeebus, 'moose!

Give us a warning, 'mk?

:-(}
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-07-11 22:35|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-07-11 22:35|| Front Page Top

#23 ALIEN!!!!
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-11 23:09||   2007-07-11 23:09|| Front Page Top

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