I don't watch ABCBSNBC or Fox though I do watch Fox Business News. If you listen to Talk radio and visit a few well known websites you can be at least 24 hours or more ahead of the mainstream talking head news cycle.
Yes, talk radio is definitely the place to go when you want the facts.
Actually, you hear a lot of substantive facts when you watch Olbermann, or Rachel, in particular. They basically spend most of their shows inserting actual facts into much of what FAUX puts on television.
Go to Beck though and you get a butt-load of non-sequitur argumentation. I used to listen to him on CNN Headline News, the only news channel I had on my super-duper-scanty basic channel. About 2 minutes was all it took to realize the guy as a complete quack, not so much because of an obvious seemingly right-wing tilt, but I'd end up just saying "What in the hell is he talking about, he just doesn't make any sense."
It was like that stupid crap about statues, and their meanings, what the hell? This art, like most art, can have many interpretations. Why does it surprise anyone that Beck is going to try to spin it somehow as a commie type. Why is it surprising he uses it to attack American workers and labor in general?
But do you really want to know why FOX is the most popular cable news show? Cable viewers are just a subset of television viewers. Those who watch just news, are an even smaller subset. People who own cable, especially the more expensive cable, that I don't have (Just got mine for Internet, so had to buy at least scanty-basic, for $9.99) that carries FUXUse NewsCorp network, are people who are more wealthy. It isn't surprising that a more wealthy subset might gravetate to the network that
appears to be on the side of great wealth.
I suspect were MSNBC and FUX-Use on the air, the percentages would favor MSNBC.
One other thing--the idea is ludicrous that MSNBC is a left-wing network. FUX-Use is looney bin, and MSNBC is rather centrist. CNN has become something in-between. There are no real
liberal networks. I've not seen Chomsky, Zinn, or Moore on the networks for some time, or anyone else like them.
Networks are liberal on social issues. But there isn't too much discussion on these networks about economic issues, like raising the minimum wage, stopping idiot globalization since we've got ten percent or so unemployment, or how huge wealth and wage disparities are part of the reason we're in this huge hole we're in now. There isn't much about not continuing the death penalty, or legalizing pot. It is often negleced on all networks, that around 80 percent of Americans want a public option in health care. Not much talk about how conservative non-protectionism is really the root cause of our problems, and how if we keep on trying to compete with counties that have vast labor markets of people who live in cardboard boxes, and drink from puddles of raw sewage, it's pretty obvious we're going to lose that battle. We'd all have to be from Krypton to compete with that level of pay for labor, survive in our society of highest prices in the world, and earn enough to keep up in America. Nope, on economic issues, they are all pretty conservative. I even heard Elenor Clift and Clarence Page continuing to support non-protectionist polices, even in the near-dystopic 18 percent unofficial unemployment environment 30 years of conservatism has wrought on America. And those two are supposed to be the liberals on the show.
