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Colbert launches Twitter bot to praise Fox News
This incident raises the question of how many "news followers" are real people and how many are fictitious fabrications of the networks and by extension Nielsen ratings. Marketing people I've worked with tell me all the time that a product doesn't necessarily have to sell well with the general public in order to be seen as popular.
To some extent, this is true. I've never met anybody who watched NBC. I don't even watch TV or know many people who do. However, it's watched by millions daily according to the ratings. However, Nielsen ratings aren't some set in stone, statistically accurate data. They're estimates of what a selected and targeted percentage of the audience is watching - meaning - their estimates are based on selected sampling of less than 1% of the total population.
This looks bad for FOX, but it also looks bad for other networks. I wouldn't put it past MSNBC, NBC or ABC to do the same thing. I'd even go as far as being convinced there are raiding parties operated by people from DU to 'fight off' any criticism of Obama on a liberal leaning network. I wouldn't even flinch at the idea that there are people paidto do this on both sides of the fence.
In short, I have a strong hunch that these networks aren't anywhere near as popular as they claim to be. There are half a billion channels out there and people have access to computers and cellphones - yet the ratings for dying mediums such as TV newshows somehow keep rising. I call bull****. I don't know anybody who gets their news at 6pm or has time for that ****.
This incident raises the question of how many "news followers" are real people and how many are fictitious fabrications of the networks and by extension Nielsen ratings. Marketing people I've worked with tell me all the time that a product doesn't necessarily have to sell well with the general public in order to be seen as popular.
To some extent, this is true. I've never met anybody who watched NBC. I don't even watch TV or know many people who do. However, it's watched by millions daily according to the ratings. However, Nielsen ratings aren't some set in stone, statistically accurate data. They're estimates of what a selected and targeted percentage of the audience is watching - meaning - their estimates are based on selected sampling of less than 1% of the total population.
This looks bad for FOX, but it also looks bad for other networks. I wouldn't put it past MSNBC, NBC or ABC to do the same thing. I'd even go as far as being convinced there are raiding parties operated by people from DU to 'fight off' any criticism of Obama on a liberal leaning network. I wouldn't even flinch at the idea that there are people paidto do this on both sides of the fence.
In short, I have a strong hunch that these networks aren't anywhere near as popular as they claim to be. There are half a billion channels out there and people have access to computers and cellphones - yet the ratings for dying mediums such as TV newshows somehow keep rising. I call bull****. I don't know anybody who gets their news at 6pm or has time for that ****.
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