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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (103774)	12/7/2000 2:34:49 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Obviously you would prefer a controlled media, a US version of the old Pravda (which means "truth" in Russian), but FoxNews provides some small measure of balance to the outrageously Lib/Dem biased "major" networks. Thinking people resent being fed the liberal line and now, with a superior alternative, are choosing Fox. >>The good news is that if Bush becomes president, right-wing media appeal will diminish. If you are referring to Fox or Limbaugh you are wrong, of course. Fox will continue to surge as it gains access to more households. And then there's the internet - boy that is a challenge to your type and a major threat to those who want to control information to conform it to the liberal line.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (103774)	12/7/2000 5:58:52 AM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 769667

Re: "The good news is that if Bush becomes president, right-wing media appeal will diminish." Wishful thinking will get you no results in reality. Limbaugh, for instance, rose to prominence under a Bush Presidency. When clinton won in '92, liberals commonly expressed quite the opposite notion you now propose, and claimed Limbaugh would suffer without his own kind in power. Both notions seem fallacious to me, as the likes of Limbaugh have remained popular under both parties in the past. Past performance may not accurately represent future results, but, Freedom Works Dan B

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (103774)	12/7/2000 8:18:38 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 769667

Flap, I am afraid you are wrong about this point. In order for Fox to gain in the ratings, another network must be loosing viewers. It's pretty simple. The fact that AM radio attracts a whole different audience that sometimes crosses into the TV ratings is also true. But the statistical facts are that AM radio is an entirely different medium. Many liberal programs have been tried and they cannot seem to get traction, NPR is the rough alternative to RL. That audience has been measured for years, it is a relative constant in the ratings, it is so because the Liberal pogrom is run by an elite, hence they are disconnected from the audience they would rely upon to support their commercial audiences. People who dont know what to believe may bounce back and forth, but they always end up on one side or another over time. This is what you are missing,. The Internet is a dispersion media, it introduces an age of self interest in the narrow sense. While a person might vote democrat, they may prefer Astrology, hence they spend a disproportionate amount of their internet time in Astrology sections, disconnected from their connectedness with the party line. You get the idea, dont you? The thing the partisans need to understand is that the dispersion media is a mind set or defense mechanism, employed by large blocks of people in order to escape from the influence of the manipulators and propagandists. For most people the internet is a safe haven. Partisans better begin the tough process of correlating, loss of input to it's control unit, and it's sensory organs, (the ntl media). Partisans are fully deluded about the state of the state, because they have become disconnected from the body politic. The top down model is broke, and me thinks it cant be fixed.