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Drudge Notes Network News Nosedive
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Matt Drudge, with some apparent glee, given the black and white picture he used, reported something yours truly has followed for some time: The Big Three networks' evening newscasts continue to lose viewers. He reports that the numbers, even in a presidential election year, are down from last year: ELECTION REJECTION: NETWORK NEWS SLUMPS; VIEWERSHIP FADES ..... All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008. CBSNEWS w/ Couric shed a half a million viewers, falling from 6.4 million ...

Not Watching For The Asteroid
small dead animals — Not Watching For The Asteroid tv.jpg Election Rejection: CBSNEWS w/ Couric shed a half a million viewers, falling from 6.4 million to 5.9 million; ABCNEWS dropped from 8.1 million to 7.6 million; NBCNEWS slumped from 8.2 million to 7.8 million." Posted by Kate at October 22, 2008 11:05 AM

Honor? What’s that?
QandO — Science-Fiction writer—and Democrat—Orson Scott Card has apparently had enough of the media’s coverage of the credit crisis and the election campaign. If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices. Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic ...

Media's finest
Mudville Gazette — ... it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed. It's The End of Journalism As We Knew It It's no wonder Drudge has this to report.

Instapundit — VIA DRUDGE, THE WAGES OF LOST CREDIBILITY: ELECTION REJECTION: NETWORK NEWS SLUMPS; VIEWERSHIP FADES As the shouting from the trail and the frantic spinning from the anchor desks intensify, the audience is voting with their remotes. All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008. CBSNEWS w/ Couric shed a half a million viewers, falling from 6.4 million to 5.9 million; ABCNEWS dropped from 8.1 million to 7.6 million; NBCNEWS slumped from 8.2 million to 7.8 million. The "frantic spinning from the anchor ...

Network News Driving Away Viewers
Say Anything — What do news organizations have to sell when they lose their credibility?  Not much I guess. The Obama-McCain match-up is proving to be a lackluster election ticket for the Big 3 network news programs, according to NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH. As the shouting from the trail and the frantic spinning from the anchor desks intensify, the audience is voting with their remotes. All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008. ...

Opening the Day: Economic Gloom Deepens, Palin's Expensive Wardrobe
Open Left - Front Page — It's going to be a busy day, with the GOP sleaze hitting so fast and furious that there is literally just too much interesting and outrageous stuff to post.  Our Better Dems page has expanded in keeping with the incredible moment we're in, you guys have helped us bust through $42k, and our traffic on the site is going gangbusters.  This is a once in a lifetime election, where we really can pick up random seats that no one's paying attention to.  So please give, let's make this happen. We're gunning for $50K.  I threw in some money for Josh Zeitz last night, we've got a bunch of new ...