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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/30/09

    In reply to Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
    From the photo, it looks like "Bulldog Reporter" is a new brand of popper.
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    11/30/09

    In reply to Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
    He looks like any number of frenzied alcoholics I have known.

    I remember when they were trying the Orwellian tact of declaring the term "neocon" anti-Semitic. If you can control the language, then you have won the argument.

    Also, Likud does not equal Jewish.

    Needs to be a glossary for all future discussions on Israel ...
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    11/30/09

    In reply to Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
    Ah, Israel. You could bring out the insane in a meeting of Type-B stoner Andy Williams fans.

    Shine on, you crazy diamond!
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    11/30/09

    In reply to Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
    Looks like someone went crazy with the spray-on tan.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/30/09

    In reply to Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
    cheeeeeeesssssttttt haaaaaiiiirrrr
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    11/30/09

    In reply to Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
    He should change his first name to Jimm [sic].
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    11/30/09

    @depardoo: Molto bene. Grazie. Well done.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    11/30/09

    In reply to Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
    I can understand daring someone to sue you in the hopes of reaping headline publicity, but why him? No one would really care if he sued you.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09/16/09

    In reply to There Is No Media Platform Which Meghan McCain Does Not Deserve to Dominate
    george will, thomas friedman and david brooks should really get one entry as they are all pretty much the same: mildly bright establishment figures working as hard as they can at repackaging the ideology of the ruling classes for consumption by everyone else
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    09/16/09

    In reply to There Is No Media Platform Which Meghan McCain Does Not Deserve to Dominate
    Ooooh! Michelle Malkin didn't make the list. Mr. Malkin is going to get anger sex tonight. Though I can't imagine Michelle does anything but anger sex.
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    09/16/09

    @onebadclam: Take it over to Fleshbot, buddy -- I'm getting too turned on.
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    Edited by skahammer at 09/16/09 5:23 PM skahammer was starred skahammer was unstarred
    Image of Goosed Goosed
    09/15/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Ad Dollars Crater in Wake of Boycott
    "...so the whole hubbub wasn't affecting the network's revenues. But today,..."

    The data about Beck's ad dollars dropping does not contradict Fox's claim that overall revenue are stable.

    The chart only shows that Beck's ad revenue has dropped. That's never been in dispute. Why is data pertaining only to his revenue being used to rebuff claims about the channel's overall revenue? Am I missing something?
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    09/15/09

    @Goosed: If his ad revenue dropped, the ad revenue elsewhere would have had to go up in order for Beck's drop in revenue to have zero effect on the overall ad revenue.

    If advertisers are shifting to other Fox programs, as Fox says they are, then what ads are being bumped for those ones? And are these advertisers still paying for Glenn Beck ratings when they're not advertising on Beck's show? I find that hard to believe.
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    Edited by skt.smth at 09/15/09 12:20 AM skt.smth was starred skt.smth was unstarred
    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    09/14/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Ad Dollars Crater in Wake of Boycott
    Well, keeping Beck on the air is starting to look more and more like socialism. Because he's not carrying his weight. At some point, Fox loves money more than the right wing and he's getting the boot.
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    09/14/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Ad Dollars Crater in Wake of Boycott
    Having used most of the software that generates this data, a lot of what they're saying here seems to raise a red flag. First off, Advertiser data isn't loaded in for at least a week, with revenue data generally on a three week to a month lag. Also, they generally just look at ratecard with a weekly ratings adjustment, so any significant revenue drops on a week-by-week basis have to be based on wild speculation.

    Plus, even if we make the safe assumption that DR rates are a lot cheaper than non-DR advertising, a large percentage of the non-DR stuff would have been sold in the upfront before last, ie. June-July 2008, before Beck popularity and ratings surged. As such, the guaranteed deals that include this show are likely to be overdelivering, and so moving the units to lower-rated hours on the network are probably not doing much to the actual bottom line, in fact it might actually be helping by enabling FNC to move significantly overdelivering clients to lower rated hours without penalty or argument.

    Sorry, I realize that got a bit technical for people not in advertising.
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    09/14/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Ad Dollars Crater in Wake of Boycott
    Fox will almost certainly just ride this out. Even with reduced revenue, shows like Beck's are cheap to produce and so remain immensely profitable. Plus, by sticking with him, Fox keeps faith with its audience, and thus protects all the shows on the channel.
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    Image of Shawn Wasson Shawn Wasson
    09/14/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Ad Dollars Crater in Wake of Boycott
    Sure, it's a crock of shit: [www.mediabistro.com]

    But hey, it fits the mold, run it anyhow!

    Can we farm out the political haymaker crap to Wonkette and stick to the fun stuff again?

    When it's so obvious that you're trying to prove a political point, land a shot at any cost, it just comes off as pathetic.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/14/09

    @Shawn Wasson: It's a crock of shit because Fox News says it's a crock of shit, with no supporting evidence whatsoever? Well, that's certainly persuasive. It's not as if they'd ever misrepresent the truth in any way, or have any compelling motive for doing so.
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    Image of Better to Eat You With Better to Eat You With
    09/14/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: There ya go thinkin' again.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/15/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: By the way, in semi-response to the dumb troll whom I'm not going to unpinkify, it's not that I don't find these numbers fairly suspect myself. However, it's silly to pretend that Fox's having said they're wrong without any kind of substantiation constitutes proof that they are.
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    Image of LGgeek LGgeek
    09/14/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Ad Dollars Crater in Wake of Boycott
    "the source and shown the raw data on the condition that we don't reveal where it came from:.."

    Sorry not buying it , if you can't show us the data then it didn't happen. I'm sure you have a secret source that knows where Hofffa is buried but you can't reveal that either. If you ever intend to be journalist you can't take sides otherwise you're just another liberal/conservative blog site with lots of fan boys.
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    onebadclam promoted this comment Edited by LGgeek at 09/14/09 7:19 PM LGgeek was starred LGgeek was unstarred
    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    09/14/09

    @LGgeek: Then show us a Geico commercial during Beck's show. Or were they squeezed out by the influx of gold dealers demanding commercial time?
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    09/14/09

    @LGgeek: Journalists also need to protect their sources.
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    Image of claming claming
    09/14/09

    @LGgeek: It's actually pretty easy to figure out. Fox News has advertisers buying bulk time on their channel. They then program the ads throughout the 24 hour broadcasting day, depending on how many ads purchased and how much was spent.
    If advertisers then start specifically pulling out of an hour your day is now reduced to 23. Which is how at first Fox was able to spin it, many of the advertisers pulling out originally never even aired during Beck's show, but eventually that dead hour catches up.
    Long explanation made short, Fox News has to charge slashed rates for a highly rated hour of their day = Lower revenue for the day overall and the hour in question.
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