Last Week’s Ratings Completely and Totally Humiliate CNN

[longknife]

Karma’s a bitch.

More Americans tuned into programming meant for children and young adults than CNN last week, according to numbers provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation by Fox News.



All the goodies @ Last Week's Ratings Completely and Totally Humiliate CNN

 

[caddo kid]

So, you REALLY DO CARE about CNN. LOL

 

[Pogo]

Karma’s a bitch.

More Americans tuned into programming meant for children and young adults than CNN last week, according to numbers provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation by Fox News.



All the goodies @ Last Week's Ratings Completely and Totally Humiliate CNN

After all this time you *STILL* have no clue what ratings are for, do you.

Ratings measure attention. They are used to set advertising rates --- as in "we can deliver this amount of eyeballs in this time slot".

That's it. Full stop. Unless you're buying or selling commercials, ratings have literally no function.

Ergo they are completely irrelevant to what the news is, except in the case that a "news" outlet's ratings are unusually high, which indicates they're pumping the news.

Now if some pseudo-news outlet were pumping its content by scouring up, say, scary-black-man stories about "New Black Panthers" and "Shirley Sherrod" and "White House hip-hop barbecues" and "knockout games" and shit like that, and they got big ratings as a result --- THEN that pseudonews outlet would be humiliated.

News is neutral; "ratings" for actual news are completely irrelevant.

See you next time when you have to re-learn all this shit all over again because you STILL weren't paying attention.

/thread

 

[Meathead]

Karma’s a bitch.

More Americans tuned into programming meant for children and young adults than CNN last week, according to numbers provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation by Fox News.



All the goodies @ Last Week's Ratings Completely and Totally Humiliate CNN

After all this time you *STILL* have no clue what ratings are for, do you.

Ratings measure attention. They are used to set advertising rates --- as in "we can deliver this amount of eyeballs in this time slot".

That's it. Full stop. Unless you're buying or selling commercials, ratings have literally no function.

Ergo they are completely irrelevant to what the news is, except in the case that a "news" outlet's ratings are unusually high, which indicates they're pumping the news.

News is neutral; "ratings" for actual news are completely irrelevant.

See you next time when you have to re-learn all this shit all over again because you STILL weren't paying attention.

/thread

So, you are defending Pocahontas and CNN too?

 

[longknife]

 

[Pogo]

Karma’s a bitch.

More Americans tuned into programming meant for children and young adults than CNN last week, according to numbers provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation by Fox News.



All the goodies @ Last Week's Ratings Completely and Totally Humiliate CNN

After all this time you *STILL* have no clue what ratings are for, do you.

Ratings measure attention. They are used to set advertising rates --- as in "we can deliver this amount of eyeballs in this time slot".

That's it. Full stop. Unless you're buying or selling commercials, ratings have literally no function.

Ergo they are completely irrelevant to what the news is, except in the case that a "news" outlet's ratings are unusually high, which indicates they're pumping the news.

News is neutral; "ratings" for actual news are completely irrelevant.

See you next time when you have to re-learn all this shit all over again because you STILL weren't paying attention.

/thread

So, you are defending Pocahontas and CNN too?

Learn how to read. There's no "defense" of anything there. I pointed out that the OP has his head up his ass about what 'ratings' mean. Unless you're trafficking in advertising they have no function. LITERALLY no function. Advertising is the only reason they even exist.

We can only conclude then that the OP is under the impression that USMB is populated by advertising buyers and sellers. What a ghastly thought that is.

 

[blastoff]

Pogo evolves slowly. For a while there advertising was solely for the devious purpose of selling folks things they didn’t need. Like tires for example. No one ever needs new ones, right? They just get tricked into replacing a perfectly good set while watching the big game on the tube.

 

[Pogo]

Pogo evolves slowly. For a while there advertising was solely for the devious purpose of selling folks things they didn’t need. Like tires for example. No one ever needs new ones, right? They just get tricked into replacing a perfectly good set while watching the big game on the tube.

Advertising IS for the purpose of selling you shit you don't need.

You need tires. You don't necessarily need Goodyear tires. Nobody has to advertise to convince you that you need tires. Your car will do that.

You need water. You don't need Evian water. Nobody has to advertise to tell you you need water --- your body will do that.

On the other hand you don't need carbonated hypersugared "soft" drinks. Nor do you need a specifically Coke or Pepsi soft drink. But every time Coke advertises, Pepsi benefits, and vice versa. Because either way they just sold you shit you don't need --- the idea of drinking carbonated hypersugared 'soft' drinks. An idea you didn't need.

You don't need Vye-yag-ra or a Corvette or some hair gel or some "designer" duds. It takes an advertiser to convince you you're so inadequate that you do need them and they're the answer to your failures, the ones they just told you about.

Questions?