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Tea Party Smeared by ABC

Robert - Let's be straightforward here. Your definition of mainstream media is simply any media outlet with which you disagree. Is that accurate?
 
Robert Prey said:
It's combined audience does not approach that of the mainstream media.
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I'm pretty sure that Fox News has more viewers than Newsweek or Time have readers these days.

Is MSNBC part of the mainstream media? Or CNN?
 
Robert Prey said:
It's combined audience does not approach that of the mainstream media.
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As spindrift noted, this does nothing to answer the question. You're using the concept of "mainstream media" to define mainstream media. No can do.

Go here for just one day's ratings of the largest news channels. Please use this actual, factual data to support your definition of "mainstream media".
 
SezMe said:
As spindrift noted, this does nothing to answer the question. You're using the concept of "mainstream media" to define mainstream media. No can do.

Go here for just one day's ratings of the largest news channels. Please use this actual, factual data to support your definition of "mainstream media".
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That is only a list of cable news. There is no CBS, NBC,. ABC, NYT, etc.
 
Robert Prey said:
That is only a list of cable news. There is no CBS, NBC,. ABC, NYT, etc.
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ABC, CBS, and NBC have a half-hour nightly national newscast at 6:30 p.m. And that's pretty much it in terms of their regular news programming; the rest of the time it's sports or entertainment programs (barring some big event that demands regular programming be interrupted).
 
I'd hate to break it to you but starting around 1991 Cable News superseded the networks in terms of how people get their news.

Other things you might have missed were the rise and fall of MC Hammer, Princess Diana dies and Maggie shot Mr Burns.
 
Tea Party Smeared by ABC

First thought: Can you smear a turd?

Second thought: Stupid googlefail journalist.
 
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Travis said:
Other things you might have missed were the rise and fall of MC Hammer, Princess Diana dies and Maggie shot Mr Burns.
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Spoiler warnings, jerk.

Sigh...ah well, guess I'll set my Beta-Max to record over that episode with tonight's XFL game on my analog TV while I'm out buying Billy Beer and DeLoreons.
 
SezMe said:
Go here for just one day's ratings of the largest news channels. Please use this actual, factual data to support your definition of "mainstream media".
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Robert Prey said:
That is only a list of cable news. There is no CBS, NBC,. ABC, NYT, etc.
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Excellent evasion of the issue. Well done. Your dancing skills now having been demonstrated, can you please answer Spindrift's question.

ETA: Or Distracted1's question if the earlier one repulses you.
 
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Cleon said:
My coworker, who happens to have two small children, informs me that the answer is an unequivocal "yes."
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I was thinking more like the opposite of polishing a turd; smearing something ON the turd. I suppose your coworker would still answer "yes".
 
Robert Prey said:
Oh, for example, Mainstream media is media that does not present news items such as Fast and Furious or Chick a Fil.
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Why does an opinion on marriage equality by somebody who most people have never heard of rise to the level of important, national news? Or are you talking about a few mayors' responses to it?

Fast and Furious, yeah I'd agree that should be covered, and has been, by the mainstream media, especially by Fox News.
 
Robert Prey said:
Oh, for example, Mainstream media is media that does not present news items such as Fast and Furious or Chick a Fil.
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You STILL haven't defined mainstream media. Giving us a couple of examples does let us determine who is mainstream and who isn't.

I'm beginning to think you just posted some nonsense and got called on it.
 
Robert Prey said:
Oh, for example, Mainstream media is media that does not present news items such as Fast and Furious or Chick Fil A.
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I'm also curious to know how Fox News does NOT qualify as "mainstream media". If you define MSM as "biased in favor of the Democratic Party", then just say so.
 
So the mainstream media is now defined by what it doesn't cover?

And it is specifically about Fast and Furious and Chick-fil-a?

I could have sworn I saw both covered on NBC so I guess they are now out.
 
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