They think Fox News poor ratings is because its moving to the left.

[ourbluenation]

Jesus Christ - everything is our fault.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656495/posts

Ailes 'Fuming' at Fox News Channel
Newsmax.com ^

Posted on 06/27/2006 9:27:22 AM PDT by doesn't suffer fools gladly

Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is reportedly "on the warpath” about his network’s recent ratings slide – and has given notice to staffers that he’s willing to clean house, according to a report in Broadcasting & Cable.The cable news channel’s overall prime-time ratings are off 8 percent in the second quarter of this year, and down 22 percent in viewers ages 25 to 54. The first quarter was also disappointing...

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"There has been a partial liberal bias creeping into FoxNews. Hence the ratings slide!"
"Hey Roger, stop moving to the left.."
"Moved too far to left."
"Get back to the conservative coverage that made you #1 in the first place!"

[Avalux]

1. OMG! They really are insane -

how in the hell can anyone watch Fox News and think it's "too far to the left"? Gaaaaaaa!

[emulatorloo]

2. Maybe viewers are leaving Fox BECAUSE THEY"VE FIGURED OUT IT IS BS

If the damn tv channel is lying to you everyday about how great the Repug party and Bush is, if you are aware at all you are going to say "THAT"S RIDICULOUS."

Guess freepers too deep in denial

[katty]

3. read this Variety, #'s drop,maybe because Faux News is just

too stupid that people found their brains ready to burst with anger as they watched.

[Captain Hilts]

4. ALL news programs tv/radio are diving, except for Olbermann...

and Hardball, because it gets Olbermann viewers.

Limbaugh's ratings are down. Franken's ratings are down. News program ratings are down. They're all down.

[acmejack]

9. Thom Hartmann is down?

That is awfully hard to believe...

[uppityperson]

5. Heard this about Mr.bush the other day also, why his #s dropping

Because he is too liberal. Amazing.

[anarch]

6. hell, I agree. I like my Nazi propaganda pure, dammit!

Hey Fox, get back to that pure bigoted, jingoistic, irrelevant nonsense that made you sometimes just as funny to watch as Comedy Central in the first place!

[Totally Committed]

7. To the LEFT? These are the same people who think Hillary Clinton

Is a far-Left Wing Liberal, fercripessake.

Bill O'Reilly

Sean Hannity

Geraldo Rivera

... Yes, to the left.

Maybe they're just pissed that Rupert Murdoch is a having a fundraiser for Hillary, and are mistaking that for moving Left, instead of covering his ass???

TC

[baldguy]

8. Go ahead, Roger. Make Faux MORE conservative.

What's that old saying? "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Those people Ailes has been fooling are starting to wake up.

[ourbluenation]

10. On TDS the other night there was a clip of the fox morning chat show

guy yammering on about the NYT coverage of bankspygate. The Fox guy said in regards to the NYT, and I quote, that it was "agenda reporting".

What an insane comment to come out of the mouth of anyone at fox.

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. BTW, Where do they get those old hookers that co-host that show?

Discards from the Limbaugh mansion, maybe?

[magellan]

11. FAUX's ratings dive couldn't possibly be because it's out of touch

...with mainstream America, who resoundingly disapprove of this administration and so aren't buying FAUX's RW propaganda anymore.

[Epiphany4z]

12. lmao could it be

the sheep are waking up and turning the channel? fox to the left lmao

[tsuki]

13. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. I just cannot help asking

doctors, the police, restaurant owners WHY are they watching a new channel jointly controlled by the Saudis for American news. You know, the Saudi Prince we can't catch, the Saudi nationals that bombed the Towers on 9/11.

I usually get the channel changed. So, I'll take some credit.

[lpbk2713]

14. The conservative movement is dying (thanks to Shit-for-Brains)

and in their desperation the diehards are frantically looking for somewhere to place the blame .... ANYWHERE!!


I would like to to take this opportunity to thank Smirky the AWOL Boy for all the help he has given us over the last five years.

[katty]

16. by george I think you've got it!!

[madmunchie]

15. Please Please move more to the right, move more to the right!

I want you to attract all of the totally insane wingnuts and keep them on your station for all to see. They would be a fun freak show.

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. Stay the course, Roger. This is all BS and you know it. What do they know?

The SS Fox is heading for the waterfall, but they don't know it yet.

[Initech]

19. Ailes probably just made Hannity's head explode...

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. ..............and that would be a good thing.

[porphyrian]

21. Yeah, it couldn't just be that they suck shit. - n/t

[enki23]

22. who knows, maybe he's right?

it's primarily an entertainment channel, not a news channel. that's why direct comparison to other actual news channels isn't really valid. (granted, the rest are steadily becoming less like "actual news channels" themselves). not many people watch the news, or ever did. even being "sorta" like news probably leaves fox with only a limited potential audience. any idiot with any actual "news channel" pretentions at fox (other than the hamming it up in front of the camera sort) should probably be fired. it's just not consistent with their business model.

they're like a 24 hour Daily Show for wingnuts, except they do angry rather than funny. they know it, we know it. a small, but not insignificant portion of their audience knows it too. their on air personalities, however, mostly don't. or they're really good actors. i'm betting on the first option.

christ knows, there are plenty of insane wingnut couch hogs looking for a permanent angry fix. they've got a good niche, and i'm sure they don't want to fuck with it too much.