<blockquote>CNN regularly claims a cume about 20 percent higher than Fox's (Deseret Morning News, 1/12/04). For instance, in April 2003, during the height of the fighting in Iraq, CNN's cume was significantly higher than Fox's: 105 million viewers tuned into CNN compared to 86 million for Fox (Cablefax, 4/30/03). . . .
Even among Fox's core audience of conservatives, CNN has an edge in total viewership. A study by the ad agency Carat USA (Hollywood Reporter, 8/13/03) found that 37 percent of viewers calling themselves "very conservative" watch CNN in the course of a week, while only 32 percent tune to Fox. . . .
The O'Reilly Factor is the best-rated show on Fox, with about 2 million viewers a night (Daily Variety, 12/5/03). CBS Evening News, the least-watched broadcast network evening news show, routinely gets four or five times as big an audience, and that's seen as a ratings disaster. Fox's flagship news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, gets a million viewers on a good night -- a few thousand more than the local newscast of New York City's WNBC (Hollywood Reporter, 10/1/03; Nielsen). (Steve Rendall, "The Ratings Mirage: Why Fox Has Higher Ratings -- When CNN Has More Viewers," Extra!, April 2004)</blockquote>
Cf. <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/outfoxed.html>.
Doug wrote:
>My one appearance on the Moyers show raised me to #45 on Amazon's
>bestseller list
Amazon.com shows that customers who buy your books -- including yours truly -- are the sort who buy other liberals and leftists' books -- knowing that, Amazon.com offers a package deal bundling your latest book with a book by Robert Pollin:
<blockquote>After the New Economy by Doug Henwood . . .
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Buy this book with After the New Economy by Doug Henwood today! plus Total List Price: $49.95 Buy Together Today: $33.97
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Amazon.com's marketing based on customers' habits, if anything, is evidence for Carrol's argument: preach to the choir first and foremost. Intellectuals like you and Michael Moore are doing a good job by providing the choir with good songs. -- Yoshie
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