The discourse will be raised in a heartbeat. If that involves people leaving, so be it.

Stick to policy, not linguistic nonsense.

eric

The numbers for the media are actually 90%, Mickey. Funny how their interest in “diversity” only encompasses those who match their ideology.

If the newsroom only had 2.4% blacks in it (20% of black population demo) , would that be acceptable? I don’t think so.

> They don’t get quite the ratings Fox gets

Indeed. They get 1/3rd of the ratings Fox gets. (Fox’s numbers are more than all the other three libtard nets (CNN, HNN, MSNBC) combined

FSU didn’t score quite as much as UF did last Saturday, according to McJones.

It is THE most USELESS POS on the planet.

Sorry, I’m going elsewhere. I’m sick of dealing with this piece of utter garbage.

Eric, if you ever switch to a comment engine that doesn’tjust suddenly eat things on a single mistyped keypress without any word why (and no visible option for recovery) — one that doesn’t refuse to post things without any information as to the reason for it, I’ll happily come back.

Haloscan sucks, but nowhere near as much as wordpress does. And blogspot’s comment engine is literally orders of magnitude better than either. I’ve had <B<FOUR problems in the last two days. I can’t recall the last time I had ANY problems with either Haloscan or Blogspot.

Whatever your reasons for using WP are, they aren’t sufficient for me.

Sorry about that — I like your content, but not enough to deal with WP screwing me over time and again. It’s an incompetently written piece of crap.

“No WP Blogs” is my new ironclad rule.

“you’re just being paranoid.”

heh, this coming from the guy who thinks conservatives are the universal birth of evil

Yeah, your most epoquent point ever was photoshopping horns to Bushs head and calling terrosust unruley children

Yeah, all ten of em

Yeah, too bad 75% of em vote democrat
Ohh, boring boring boring with your superior moral justification.
Liberals are the epitome of hypocrisy. I made the example with proof positive factual examples and you persist with your same endless dribble.
whatever it takes to feel good huh ?

Bloody hell spanked your butt raw !!!!

I don’t think you understand market economics. Fox and MSNBC are not competing in the same exact market. Yes, they are both in the news-talk business, MSNBC targets a more liberal and progressive audience while Fox targets a more conservative, religious-right audience. These are two distinct market sub-classes. There’s no point in competing with Fox with it’s specific market because it’s too small for two major players. So MSNBC takes another target demographic, offering basically the product but with a distinct appeal for that specific market. You do get that, right?

I always get a kick out of “Free Market Conservatives” who know absolutely nothing of free market economics.

Demand creates supply – much moreso than the other way around. That’s why “supply-side economics” has never worked well for the majority of the people. Voo-Doo Economics run contrary to the workings of real economies. CNN, FOX, MSNBC all target different audiences, with some overlap. The same could be said of many other sectors and industries. This is pretty basic stuff, OBH. Perhaps you should study up on economics before you try arguing with someone who actually knows what he’s talking about.

Speaking of not knowing what you’re talking about…

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091005025345.aspx

Only about 45% of Americans believe the media is “too liberal” – far from “the public as a whole.” Most people are smarter than that. The important fact is that only about ten percent of Americans really trust any of the mass media at all! They know, like I know, that most of the mass media is profit driven, and skews our perception of the news for the benefit of their advertisers – not the government or the political parties. Fox and MSNBC may seem ideologically driven, but their business model is pretty clear: news for angry, disaffected people (specifically white people, in Fox’s case). It’s just an available market. That’s all.

As for most “conservative and libertarian positions,” as I’ve mentioned many times before, John Kenneth Galbraith summed those up very nicely: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” I’d throw racism and misogyny in with selfishness, while we’re at it.

JMJ