Here’s the latest cable news viewership numbers in the U.S.
Thanks to Matt Drudge for the work:
CABLE NEWS RACE
March 6 2007 VIEWERS
[with Joel’s comments]
FOX NEWS CHANNEL (FNC) – Bill O’Reilly’s O’REILLY FACTOR 2,297,000
FNC – HANNITY and COLMES 1,701,000
FNC – Greta Van Susterin’s ON THE RECORD 1,451,000
FNC – BRIT HUME 1,427,000
FNC – SHEPARD SMITH 1,317,000
CNN – LARRY KING 974,000
[overtly liberal]
CNN – ANDERSON COOPER 819,000
[liberal]
CNN – LOU DOBBS 797,000
[he hates everybody]
MSNBC – KEITH OLBERMANN 722,000
[overtly far-left Bush-hating liberal]
CNNHN – NANCY GRACE 588,000
MSNBC – Chris Mathews’ HARDBALL 563,000
[overtly far-left Bush-hating liberal]
CNN – PAULA ZAHN 491,000
[liberal]
Making a similar comparison in Canada is useless of course, because the liberals have ensured that by rule of law, all Canadians must be provided with access to the countless state-run, state-owned CBC channels of liberal-leftness, and of course their sacred CBC Newsworld liberal-leftist news channel, on their basic cable packages, for our own good.
Getting Fox News Channel here in Canada (now that they’ve finally unbanned it as a result of enormous pressure from folks like us) requires special digital TV equipment, extra charges, and hoop-jumping on the part of Canadians. (The liberals’ CNN is of course just as available as CBC Newsworld on the regular analog channel lineup).
While we’re at it, here’s the latest facts behind what Canadians choose to watch when given half a chance to decide for themselves on a half-assed level playing field, despite the liberals’ politically-appointed social engineers and bureaucrats pumping over a BILLION dollars of tax money EVERY YEAR into the state-run CBC and forcing private cable and sattelite providers to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into “Canadian content” for the CBC and other liberalvision outlets.
All the top shows are decidedly not Canadian, but for a couple.
In addition to that fact, in this week’s snapshot, the liberals’ sacred CBC is not in the top twenty, and virtually never is—often not even in the top 30. Of course they’re only too happy to admit they don’t really care about stupid ratings. They’re not about “the free market” and “competition”—that’s for capitalist America-likin’ hicks like you to worry about! They’re liberals! The “Elite”! The “intellectuals”! The “artists”! They’re about forcing crap down our throats as socialists do, mmmbut it’s for our own good, dammit! Won’t don’t know no better! They don’t care what you think. So as I understand it, then, it’s all about “the message”, from them to you, and they admit it. And they admit nobody likes it. And yet they get a BILLION (plus) dollars per year of our cash, and go ahead compete against Canadian citizens for money and contrary to their tastes.
How Soviet.
copyright BBM Nielsen Media Research
As you can see, attempts by liberals to engineer a “Canadian Culture” by government decree and by liberal bureaucrats pulling facts and figures out of their backsides and making TV-viewing laws and rules and regulations out of them have failed utterly.
Naturally, also allow me to use this opportunity to remind readers that state-run and state-owned media should be banned in this country, and that notion enshrined in our Constitution forever.
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