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Botswana Meat Commission FC
09/03/09

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Where does Montgomery Flea Market (it's just like, it's just like... a mini mall) stand on this issue?
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BlinkyMcChuck
09/03/09

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The ratings are misleading anyway---as Comcast makes Fox part of basic cable and MSNBC is on the premium package. Behind a bigger paywall.
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BlinkyMcChuck
09/03/09

@BlinkyMcChuck: Not in all markets, but in many.
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Niko Bellic
09/03/09

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So the capitalists are joining us socialists in the struggle of the practical common sense against the ideological insanity.
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Charax
09/03/09

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Does withdrawing their ads from his show really have any effect? they're not withdrawn from the network so they just play at different times, the network still gets the money - what difference does it make?
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skt.smth
09/03/09

@Charax: Unfortunately, for publicly traded companies, it's not enough to "still get the money." If he's pulling in big ratings, but only middling advertisers want to feature their ads during that ratings blitz, FoxNews may eventually decide to try their luck on somebody who can be a ratings winner AND bring in the top dollar advertisers.

By keeping a Glenn Beck around, they are essentially saying to advertisers: "We don't really care about getting you the most exposure for your dollar." And you can bet all those advertisers aren't still going to be paying Glenn Beck money to have their ads air during shows with lower ratings.
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Mutley
09/03/09

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This answer simple. Let him keep his money and his job. But make his life miserable. Give him lousy service or refuse him service at a store or gast station. Refuse to serve him in restaurants. Boo and shun him. Make him the white OJ.
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Claire Buoyant
09/03/09

@Mutley: In your dreams. It'll never happen. First of all, outside of media and political circles, most people probably don't know who he is; he's not nearly as famous as OJ. Second, of the people who do know him, I'd imagine a good chunk (i.e., his audience) actually like him.
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Mediahohoho
09/03/09

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I'm really happy to know that my boycott of Mercedes-Benz caused them to finally fold and stop financing this douchebag's paranoid ranting. Um, thing is, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to spring for that new 5-series I was planning on buying to reward them. I'm buying it in my heart, though.
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The Walking Eye
09/03/09

@Mediahohoho: MB makes the 5-series now? Methinks you mean an E-class.
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Mediahohoho
09/03/09

@The Walking Eye: Yes. All of which serves to illustrate how far away I am from automobile ownership these days. I get the TV commercials mixed up. That's about it.
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Claire Buoyant
09/02/09

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I'm surprised no one has posted this image yet, it seems so natural.
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Margatron
09/03/09

@Claire Buoyant: Oh if only extreme idiocy was a crime...
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CLY
09/02/09

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His rating would drop also if people (I'm mostly talking to the left) would stop watching his show to see what he would do next. Trust me it's not just the crazies on the right only watching him. We sane people would just stop watching him (only for entertainment purposes) his ratings would be so high.

STOP WATCHING GLENN BECK for at least 2wks and lets see where his ratings are at.
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Mike Byhoff
09/03/09

@CLY: Exactly. Just like Howard Stern.
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skt.smth
09/03/09

@CLY: Either that or Nielsen needs to bring in a new ratings system that takes irony into account.

When I was an undergraduate, I routinely got stoned and watched O'Reilly with friends, just to laugh at what it meant that all his commercials were for ActivOn, miracle diets, and chintzy exercise products.

I assume the advertisers would find some value in knowing that a large chunk of the ratings these shows get are from people who don't ever intend to buy the products.
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Magister
09/03/09

@CLY: While I agree with the concept, if the ironic hipsters don't have a Nielsen box, they don't count.
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FrankenPC
09/03/09

@Magister: Nielson is a joke. Also, I'm a lefty and I don't watch Beck. He makes me want to barf.
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bens
09/02/09

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Has Beck addressed the issue on his show? I wonder how he would/has spun it.
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Magister
09/03/09

@bens: He's selectively edited a bunch of clips from one of the group's founders and is trying to paint a relatively low-level, non-presidential appointee as a threat to democracy.

So, yeah... he's indirectly attacking the messenger.
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Alexis
09/02/09

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Another Glenn Beck article, eh? Where are all the "all u do iz insult him. You got no factz!!11!!" posts? Those tide me over until the fall TV season starts.
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♠ Final ♠
09/03/09

@Alexis Brown: You forgot, "Ridicule is easy, he speaks the troof!"

Personally I'm waiting for his, "Network" moment. You know when they cancel his show and then he threatens to kill himself on the show's last day.
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jasonelias
09/02/09

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Glenn's going to be down to Big and Tall Warehouse and Goody's Headache Powder before you know it.
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notpickard
09/02/09

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According to an article in today's Financial Times, Fox says that the advertisers just moved their buys to other shows. So as a network they're not actually losing money.
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onebadclam
09/02/09

@notpickard: But they have an hour of prime broadcast time that is getting harder and harder to sell. Pretty soon it will be all gold ads.
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notpickard
09/02/09

@onebadclam: I don't know enough about the mechanics of pricing ad time. Does the sheer number of eyeballs the Beck brings let Fox (or any other network for that matter) charge a premium?

Funny enough, to pages later in the FT was an article about the falling ratings of the Iranian main (read: government controlled) TV station his down 40% in it's viewership. It is attributed to the people seeing the election coverage as totally unconnected from reality.
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Paul_Is_Drunk
09/03/09

@notpickard: Think of it this way---

Fox News now has 23 hours of money making television as opposed to 24. Seeing as that hour is prime time, they're losing money... because, TRUST ME, there is no way to upcharge those other buys enough to make up for that lost revenue.
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Trai_Dep
09/02/09

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I hear Cash4Gold is looking for more publicity...
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ObamaIsMyPresident
09/02/09

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Extenz will stand by their man though I bet. They know to target their audience.
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ian spiegelman
09/02/09

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Who are these people?
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