So what you're basically saying is that FOX News succeeds because most Americans are conservative? And that networks like MSNBC flounder because few Americans are far left liberals?
No, it isn't that most Americans are conservative, FAUX News just tells them what they want to hear and the truth then no longer matters. Networks like MSNBC flounder because the majority of Americans do not want to hear anything to remind them how racist and corrupt this country is. Do that and it is an automatic fail.
Could it possibly be that Americans are smarter than you give them credit for? That they understand that MSNBC and CNN are slanted to the left...and that FOX News is slanted to the right?
Smartness is not the issue. The cancelled Liberal talk shows may have had millions of viewers but the Nielsen factor is what counts. If those 200, 000 families were all "conservatives and made it a strategy to not watch the commercials on liberal talk shows, the millions of viewers who liked those shows didn't matter. You can see the case for claims of corruption here can' you?
That they came to view Keith Olbermann as a ranting buffoon? You can BE slanted, JQ but only to a point...when you are no longer believable because you've stopped even attempting to provide factual news...you're going to lose your audience. Olbermann turned his show into farce and was too arrogant to realize it was happening.
I don't think Keith Olbermann was near as ranting a buffoon as Hannity or Bill O'reilly. Those 200,000 families were paid well to favor those idiots and watch their commercials.
As for what is "truth"? Was the story that first came out about Mike Brown or Trayvon Martin the "truth" or was what MSNBC reported a fabrication of what a small group of liberals WANTED those two young men to be?
That has nothing to do with the 200,000 families who pressed the buttons on their little boxes as instructed.
When you manipulate the truth to make what's happened conform to your political views then you aren't telling the "truth"...you're a propagandist.
When you control the random samples that affect a show's rating, the truth is little more than a speed bump in the road. Liberals, apparently have little or no control over that process.