FOX News' Megyn Kelly "Santa and Jesus Are White"

[jmc]

I was talking to a family friend recently who works at Fox News. He's told us the only pundit there who actually believes the stuff he says on the air is Sean Hannity. And no one who works there likes him. Their morning hosts are truly as dumb as they sound, and yes...Glenn Beck was completely an act, he was really nothing like that off-camera. A guy who rides my bus works on Beck's radio show now and says the same thing. In fact, he said they were all pulling for Obama in the last election because it meant they'd have job security.

Why would they do this? It makes no sense for a news organization to act this way.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Did some research.

Turns out blacks are arrested for violent crimes at a higher rate than whites but Asians are arrested for violent crimes at a much lower rate than whites.

The black -white comparison is used to prove blacks are genetically more violent than whites.

So why doesn't anyone point out whites are more violent than Asians based on arrest data?

I think it kills any speculation that blacks higher rate of violent crime somehow is genetic or makes them inferior.

 

[Quasimod0]

Why would they do this? It makes no sense for a news organization to act this way.

Unless it just isn't true. Can't believe everything you hear on the internet.

 

[E-Man]

Why would they do this? It makes no sense for a news organization to act this way.

http://www.businessinsider.com/november-cable-news-ratings-fox-news-msnbc-cnn-2013-11

Fox News triumphed in the cable news ratings battle in November, grabbing more total day and primetime viewers than its two rival competitors — CNN and MSNBC — combined.

It marks the 143rd consecutive month that Fox News has come out on top, and it ranked second in all of cable for the month of November — behind only ESPN. It featured the top 14 programs in all of cable news.

In primetime, Fox was down 21% in total viewers and 41% in the key 25-54 age demographic from last November — when the presidential election boosted numbers. That marked the lowest decline — both CNN and MSNBC were down more than 50% in both categories in primetime.

Some highlights for the network: "Special Report with Bret Baier" and "The Five" had their highest-rated months of the year; Megyn Kelly's new show, "The Kelly File," was up 30% in total viewers vs. 2013 to date, and "MediaBuzz," Howard Kurtz's new show, is up 73% in the key demo from Week 1 to Week 12 of the show.

MSNBC finished in second while CNN finished in third, as it posted its lowest numbers in both total viewers and the key demo since August 2012. "New Day" had its worst month since its launch in June, down 46% and 29%, respectively, from "Early Start" last November. One bright spot was Anderson Cooper's show, which was up 25% — and 26% in the demo.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/november-cable-news-ratings-fox-news-msnbc-cnn-2013-11#ixzz2nObMDMX1

 

[TX85]

What do you think?

Well that explains type of comments

 

[Ant-manic]

kind of weird that the channel where christianity is held up as sacred would, collectively, be willing to forfeit their souls so readily.

 

[TX85]

Unless it just isn't true. Can't believe everything you hear on the internet.

But it is true,I looked it up and she indeed make those comments,now other journalists and people like Stephen Colbert are mocking her

 

[Quasimod0]

But it is true,I looked it up and she indeed make those comments,now other journalists and people like Stephen Colbert are mocking her

i was talking about the post where someone said that another person said that the reporters for fox news dont actually believe what they say they do. I was just noting that we cant believe everything we hear on the net.

 

[jmc]

What's wrong with a news organization just delivering, you know, the news? I've got no problem with opinion shows but from what I've seen that's all Fox News seems to do, it's just a constant stream of opinion shows trying to present itself as news. News should be about just presenting the facts and informing people of the happenings in their city/country, and it should be black and white (no pun intended).

 

[Feenix]

What's wrong with a news organization just delivering, you know, the news? I've got no problem with opinion shows but from what I've seen that's all Fox News seems to do, it's just a constant stream of opinion shows trying to present itself as news. News should be about just presenting the facts and informing people of the happenings in their city/country, and it should be black and white (no pun intended).

It should be, but there are so many news outlets and they're all fighting for ratings. They have to differentiate themselves somehow.

 

[jmc]

It must be a US thing then. We have a couple of cable news networks down here, but they more or less just run half hour news bulletins all day with a couple of opinion shows per week.

 

[Feenix]

It must be a US thing then. We have a couple of cable news networks down here, but they more or less just run half hour news bulletins all day with a couple of opinion shows per week.

Bingo.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

What's wrong with a news organization just delivering, you know, the news? I've got no problem with opinion shows but from what I've seen that's all Fox News seems to do, it's just a constant stream of opinion shows trying to present itself as news. News should be about just presenting the facts and informing people of the happenings in their city/country, and it should be black and white (no pun intended).

Its a 24 hour 7 day a week station. They run out of actual news pretty fast, so they have to fill the airtime with something.

 

[jmc]

Its a 24 hour 7 day a week station. They run out of actual news pretty fast, so they have to fill the airtime with something.

How about just repeating the news or updating new developments as they happen? New news happens all the time.

 

[E-Man]

It's all about money. People don't want to watch news here. They want to watch people tell them why they're right, and they want to be able to point the finger at all the other people who got it wrong. Fox News plays into that so successfully that they're number 1, and have been for a while. Part of it too is people who want to watch Fox News to ***** about Fox News. Conservatives stay in their news bubble while liberals actively watch Fox News to ***** about it and rally around MSNBC. It's sad, but that's what people want.

 

[jmc]

That explains why the political divide in the US is so strong then, no one wants the actual news, they just want their opinions backed up by some larger media organization. That is sad as hell and really does nothing to but reinforce the ignorant American stereotype.

 

[Hotwire]

How about just repeating the news or updating new developments as they happen? New news happens all the time.

Because we get bored with it. Look at Headline News. They used to do exactly what you described. They would repeat the same stories in about thirty minute cycle and throw updates and new stories in as they happened. The audience got bored, ratings dropped, the format changed. Society, especially American society, wants the sensationalism. We want our "news" with a spin that fits our own opinions. So, that's what the networks give us.

 

[jmc]

News should never be about ratings.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

News should never be about ratings.

It shouldn't be, but ratings = $$$

 

[Lencho01]

News is so much about ratings, word is that CNN will be showing less of it.

 

[jmc]

We must get a different version of CNN than the US. CNN I see is more or less half hour bulletins with some financial shows, sports shows and a couple of American shows.

 

[Hotwire]

It shouldn't be, but ratings = $$$

Beat me to it. More elaborately, ratings equals viewers. If a network that runs 24/7 can get enough viewers, they can't get the advertisers. If they can't get those, they can't make the money it costs to operate he network. Simple business.

 

[Thundercrack85]

It helps when you remember that the average person is well, an idiot.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

It helps when you remember that the average person is well, an idiot.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Jesus is white? Does Kanye West know that?