Vanity Fair reported a while back that the average viewer age for FOX News was 62… which is amazing. Over the next 10 years they’re going to drop in the ratings pretty significantly, or so you’d think.

Fox News like CBS will lure this niche with many either constipated or incontinent retirees, and demographics show we will be an aging nation for quite awhile.

Murdoch is wise to rotate the blondes not only for sake of not allowing anyone who works for him to become a brand unto himself or herself and play harder through agents in contract renegotiations, of which all the other network execs are taking note as they limit the air time of most folks in today’s media.

How do I know Fox will thrive?
How many of the “60 Minutes” devoted audience do you know who were not watching that show at least 20 years ago? Some remember when it came on first at least 35 years ago and might not be able to hear as well in their old age any more, but you are really toying with geriatric fire if you suggest that any one of them will miss an episode!
And gasp, we will deal with them as they age for decades more as “unimaginable” as it is that most of these folks still have never been on the internet and never will be.
(and shutup if you are real techie, as you won’t get that part for sure because you think everyone should be as technical as you; I don’t give a rat’s ass about your new GPS either)

Vanity Fair reported a while back that the average viewer age for FOX News was 62… which is amazing.

That doesn’t surprise me. When you watch the commercials, you usually see the same retirement golf community in Florida and the guy from Law & Order trying to sell you gold.

DeJuan Blair is all for you calling him the steal of the draft. (SRI)

Portland is going to rue the day they passed on him for another Euro project. They even went into the offseason saying they needed a strong backup PF. I’m not sure what the Blaze obssession with Euro’s is.

One network looks at it from the right, one he left, and CNN tries so hard to not take a stance that they come off bland.

Exactly and in 3rd place and lagging more. CNN’s real problem is that it still skews to old. Anderson Pooper, Larry “Human Frog” King, Wolf “Lupo” Blitzer and any others from before five years ago don’t cut it any more and are just old hat. Lou Dobbs sure is old and not too charimsatic because he does not pander himself to hyperbole and hysterics though of course like all uses the tease liberally before the break, but at least he has a strong following of fans who are not going away.
I like Don Lemon, and I wish CNN would figure out to hire more like him as new talent, but based in New York and in Washington now they won’t, so back we go to online consumption.

You are right that the coverage is way overboard, but I bet CNN’s ratings took an upswing due to it.

Let us never forget that making as much money as humanly possible is more important in the American media than actually having an informed public

/I don’t hate much about capitalism
//But this is 1 through 10

enjoy the michael jackson coverage

You are right that the coverage is way overboard, but I bet CNN’s ratings took an upswing due to it. I also think, outside of the King of Pop dying, the coverage is the same. One network looks at it from the right, one he left, and CNN tries so hard to not take a stance that they come off bland.