Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: bike path live entertainment Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:16:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <3oj4ej9jqhluub3q9milrdiu87egj2g7av@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:16:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cfd8bb013994b62d4610887c7fd6dd05"; logging-data="1432986"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+21UFWdY9gPyi5WjOdyEOG5CNkBHT6GB8=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:dq5utRknQ5Pj1WvLL1hoezpi4q8= Bytes: 3115 On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:41:48 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: >On 9/13/2024 9:26 PM, John B. wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:31:31 -0400, Frank Krygowski >> wrote: >>> >>> None of this rebuts my point. Fox News is all about making people >>> afraid. I can't comment on local Fox chapters vs. cable channels, since >>> I get very little news from the TV; but I suspect they're similar. >> >> Firstly I have never watched/read Fox News but if Fox News is all >> about making people afraid then my question is "why"? Does making >> people afraid "sell more newspapers"? > >Yes, it sells more newspapers, it generates more "eyeballs" or attention >onscreen and online which generates more ad revenue, it gets customers >coming back to monitor what's happening with the latest dire crisis. > >How much would you like to read about that? > >https://natyliesb.medium.com/how-corporate-media-profits-from-fear-3549fe16c03 > >https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/02/28/watching-the-tv-news-will-make-you-paranoid/ > >https://www.sourcepr.co.uk/fear-mongering-in-the-media/ > >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2019.1669257 Good grief. Krygowsky gets his news from online bloggers? No wonder he's such a nutcase. >Fox News is commonly known as the worst. Liberals hate and fear Fox News because they refuse to go along with all the far left fear mongering and lies that most of the other news sources spout about Donald Trump. That makes them very popular. Fox News has about the same number of viewers as the other two cable news networks, CNN and MSNBC combined. https://www.statista.com/statistics/373814/cable-news-network-viewership-usa/ Liberals hate and fear Fox News. -- C'est bon Soloman