Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re: You forgot something... (Score 2) 275

Dan Rather stands behind every story on his reports, even if the documents he bases them on are forgeries!

ABC stands behind their exploding pickup truck story, even though they had to put model rocket igniters in the gas tank to blue up the pickup truck for their story.

Andrea Mitchell will argue till the cows come home that she only edited the George Zimmerman 911 call to make his perfectly innocent answers to the questions he was asked by the operator for 'clarity', despite completely re-arranging the sequence of the statements.

Candy Crowley proudly told America that Mitt Romney was wrong during a Presidential Debate in 2012, despite the fact that nearly every intelligent person watching knew she was wrong. Her subsequent apology was not as well covered as her 'mistake'.

Yeah, Fox News stands alone in the errors in judgement category...

Comment Re: wrong totally (Score 2) 275

What a staggeringly ignorant post, oh wait, it's Slashdot...

the truth is this "most watched" stat is fake. What Fox did was pressure the cable companies to put Fox news on basic cable, and put other cable news programs, on upgrade packages.

What? CNN and MSNBC are also part of 'basic cable', and do you simply not understand the difference between subscribers and viewers?

Oprah's OWN network and Algezera America have LOTS of subscribers, but no viewers to speak of. This impacts the advertising rate and the types of advertisers they are able to attract.

Fox News has the highest rated shows in cable news, and they can charge premium rates for their advertising spots... Why, because they have the VIEWERS.

So Fox counts how basic cable installs to come up with this figure.

No, only YOU confuse subscribers with viewers... Everyone else understands the difference.

This "free Fox on basic cable" is why, when you go to some gyms, doctors' offices, auto dealers, they have Fox news going. Which, again, Fox counts. But what do you expect from chronic liars..

So they falsely count telivisons on in "gyms, doctor's offices, auto dealers"? No, those are called VIEWERS, actual viewers, and the businesses that choose to put their public TVs on those channels have equally free access to CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, PBS, OWN, Lagezera America, Discovery channel, etc.

Your inability to understand the difference between subscribers and viewers is not evidence of 'lying' Fox News - these are the Arbitron numbers the industry runs on, these are the numbers CNN is trying to improve by airing documentaries and travel shows on their 'news' channel in the evening.

Comment Re: "shadowy" ties to the Koch brothers' network. (Score 1) 218

They donâ(TM)t have to disclose their donors, unlike almost any other type of organization that advocates for or against candidates.

They are advocating against a gov't policy, not a candidate - in fact you could say they are 'educating' people about a given policy, much like any number of tax-exempt advocacy groups do...

Comment Let me see if I understand this... (Score 1, Insightful) 218

After a comprehensive analysis of the comments provided to the FCC regarding net neutrality, it was found that a great percentage were form letters based on one of some 30 templates one organization made available... So what?

No one is sledging the comments were not submitted falsely - each comment represents a valid comment.

The organizer of the form letter campaign gave people some thirty choices to find a message that resonates with them - each template represented different reasons to oppose net neutrality.

If abortion or the environment were the topic of the open comment period, would you discount form letter submissions from say the Sierra Club or Planned Parenthood because the wording was suggested by an advocacy group? Of course not.

Comment Re: Wait, what? (Score 2) 161

It isn't impossible to defend, why, just imagine how much more stable & reliable Windows would be if they blocked other software companies from accessing the Registry in Windows.

It is a perfectly defensible position, supported by every product manufacturer that puts either of the following warnings on their product:

"No user-serviceable parts inside"

"warranty void if seal broken"

Slashdot Top Deals

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

Working...