Addressing another slogger - or two
Rarely does rich feel compelled to respond to another blogger's content but I think it's warranted in this case because I think I need to esplain a couple of things to both Rayne and The Raven both of whom have entirely missed the point. I've read Rayne's rant and the accompanying remarks and the inevitable pissing contest between she and our venerable Raven. (I hope I'm not being too obsequious here - I'm still exasperated and a bit guilty that Raven chose to leave as soon as I came on board.)
BTW, and perhaps spot on the point, I'll take an all-male cast - ethnicity unimportant - in a pissing contest.
Let me play the devil's advocate - in this case a conservative republican.
Increasing consolidation in the [media] industry is not a consideration here. The bottom line, and I mean that literally, in all television programming is MONEY. If you think that television news or, for that matter, any media's news programs are some altruistic means to supply mass man with unbiased knowledge, I'm afraid you're out of touch.
Bill O'Reilly isn't on Fox News because he's cute. (At least not to me). But, much to our chagrin, he's won two Emmy awards. Fox news, perhaps in part because of him, is the highest rated news show in America.
To Fox that means he sells a lot of advertising. He makes Fox a lot of MONEY.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to conclude that if popular opinion would turn against Bill - he'd be gone. Period. A lot of my favorite shows go away because of a lack of popularity. It's that simple. Bill represents the demographic of the popular American masses. Like it or not. Programming doesn't have anything at all to do with ethnicity or whatever. It's all about what sells. The ball's in your court - either of you.
6:36:13 PM 
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