WingsOfDesire
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An interesting article I noticed a bit earlier. I'm not too big on labeling a station left- or right-wing because of the sheer volume of news they report and the uncountable number of people that get in their voices over the period of the day/week/etc etc. makes it impossible to say it is simply one or the other all the time.
But putting that aside, it's always funny to me when people criticize a network without facts to support their claims or find out their own 'favorite' network is just as bad or what have you. This is just a case of 'pot meet kettle,' no?
...As Stelter tweeted,
"Fox, as we all know, has biggest audience in prime time. But among African Americans, it's smallest -- 29k vs. 134k for CNN, 145k for MSNBC."
This of course, played into the "Fox is racist" meme, and, not surprisingly, Stelter's words were retweeted many times (and also inspired several media blogs to further discuss Fox News' lack of diversity).
Interestingly, though, the media site where Stelter primarily blogs (New York Times' Media Decoder) suffers from the lowest percentage of African-American readers (4.6%) when compared to comparable media sites like Mediaite (5.8%), Gawker (6.4%), Mediabistro (9.2%), etc., according to Nielsen Media Research...
An interesting article I noticed a bit earlier. I'm not too big on labeling a station left- or right-wing because of the sheer volume of news they report and the uncountable number of people that get in their voices over the period of the day/week/etc etc. makes it impossible to say it is simply one or the other all the time.
But putting that aside, it's always funny to me when people criticize a network without facts to support their claims or find out their own 'favorite' network is just as bad or what have you. This is just a case of 'pot meet kettle,' no?