DNC in Nevada

[TheMercenary]

“We have not received official word from the Nevada State Democratic Party disclosing a change in debate plans. Rumors are being circulated and if true, news organizations will want to think twice before getting involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus which appears to be controlled by radical fringe out-of-state interest groups, not the Nevada Democratic Party. In the past, Moveon.org has said they ‘own’ the Democratic party—while most Democrats don’t agree with that, we’re waiting to see if that’s the case in Nevada.” -- David Rhodes, Vice President, Fox News...


http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/...sted_54649.asp

[Happy Monkey]

Excellent. No reason to treat Fox as a legitimate news company.

[richlevy]

This pressure must be resisted as it has been in the past. Any candidate for high office of either party who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake about journalists. And any candidate of either party who cannot answer direct, simple, even tough questions from any journalist runs a real risk of losing the voters.

I don't know. It's worked pretty well for Bush so far.

[TheMercenary]

Fox is just another voice in the mix. So what do we have for mainstream News today?

Fox
CNBC
MSN
CNN
ABC
NBC
CBS

Any others?

The ratings are broken down into Broadcast and Cable. Fox is at the top of the cable ratings, ABC tops broadcast.

Fox looks to be doing fairly well:

Cable News Daily Ratings for March 8, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 904,000 viewers
CNN – 459,000 viewers
MSNBC – 288,000 viewers
CNBC – 250,000 viewers
HLN – 267,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,862,000 viewers
CNN – 670,000 viewers
MSNBC – 519,000 viewers
CNBC – 391,000 viewers
HLN – 560,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 258,000 viewers
CNN – 175,000 viewers
MSNBC – 111,000 viewers
CNBC – 91,000 viewers
HLN – 131,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 443,000 viewers
CNN – 220,000 viewers
MSNBC – 172,000 viewers
CNBC – 127,000 viewers
HLN – 267,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 953,000 viewers (402,000)
American Morning – 354,000 viewers (168,000)
Imus in the Morning– 378,000 viewers (149,000)
Robin & Co. – 237,000 viewers (133,000)

6PM - P2+ (25-54)
Special Report w/ Brit Hume- 1,209,000 viewers (304,000)
Lou Dobbs- 884,000 viewers (305,000)
Tucker Carlson- 219,000 viewers (98,000)
Mad Money- 215,000 viewers (58,000)
Prime News- 237,000 viewers (151,000)

7PM - P2+ (25-54)
FOX Report with Shepard Smith – 1,237,000 viewers (271,000)
Situation Room – 638,000 viewers (245,000)
Hardball – 470,000 viewers (143,000)
On the Money – 165,000 viewers (a scratch with 49,000)
Glenn Beck – 256,000 viewers (122,000)

8PM - P2+ (25-54)
O’Reilly Factor – 2,204,000 viewers (363,000)
Paula Zahn– 411,000 viewers (132,000)
Countdown w/ Olbermann – 600,000 viewers (159,000)
Fast Money – 190,000 viewers (79,000)
Nancy Grace – 770,000 viewers (297,000)

9 PM - P2+ (25-54)
Hannity & Colmes– 1,616,000 viewers (416,000)
Larry King Live – 927,000 viewers (286,000)
Scarborough Country- 528,000 viewers (200,000)
Deal or No Deal– 779,000 viewers (243,000)
Glenn Beck – 337,000 viewers (159,000)

10 PM P2+ (25-54)
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren- 1,765,000 viewers (551,000)
Anderson Cooper- 673,000 viewers (243,000)
MSNBC Special- 431,000 viewers (156,000)
Business Nation – 205,000 viewers (60,000)
Nancy Grace – 575,000 viewers (345,000)

11 PM P2+ (25-54)
The O’Reilly Factor– 1,196,000 viewers (373,000)
Anderson Cooper- 395,000 viewers (176,000)
Crime and Punishment- 333,000 viewers (134,000)
Mad Money– a scratch with 61,000 viewers (a scratch with 23,000)
Showbiz Tonight – 465,000 viewers (237,000)

[TheMercenary]

Nevada Democratic Party Drops Out…
Here is FNC VP David Rhodes statement on the news that the Nevada State Democratic Party caved in to left wing pressure and pulled out of the debate FNC was airing…

News organizations will want to think twice before getting involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus which appears to be controlled by radical fringe out-of-state interest groups, not the Nevada Democratic Party. In the past, Moveon.org has said they ‘own’ the Democratic party—while most Democrats don’t agree with that, it’s clearly the case in Nevada.

UPDATE: Earlier in the day Bill Richardson bailed out. The AP’s Kathleen Hennessey wrote about the saga and noted that State Democratic Chairman Tom Collins had said they weren’t cancelling…

Discussions continued Friday afternoon, even as MoveOn.org and other Web sites declared the debate dead. Collins said the reports were untrue.

“No, we’re not canceling, I am not canceling. We’re not dropping Fox,” he told The Associated Press.

Looks like the Nevada State Democratic Party’s left hand didn’t know what its right hand was doing…

[piercehawkeye45]

Faux Nothing Channel is a lot worse than all the rest of the mainstream media. I just read newspapers now anyways.

Ratings don't mean shit either. Reality TV is some of the worst shit out there and it gets good ratings. Americans will watch what they want to hear and that is what Faux gives them. It means nothing about real news.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It seems a number of people are happy to understand what the talking head is saying, without regard for whether it's true or not.