It might be more possible than you think.
Personally, I thought something was up when Fox announced that it hap hired Lou Dobbs. Now this from the New York Times:
Since last August, when he summoned more than 100,000 followers to the Washington mall for the “Restoring Honor” rally, Mr. Beck has lost over a third of his audience on Fox — a greater percentage drop than other hosts at Fox. True, he fell from the great heights of the health care debate in January 2010, but there has been worrisome erosion — more than one million viewers — especially in the younger demographic.
He still has numbers that just about any cable news host would envy and, with about two million viewers a night, outdraws all his competition combined. But the erosion is significant enough that Fox News officials are willing to say — anonymously, of course; they don’t want to be identified as criticizing the talent — that they are looking at the end of his contract in December and contemplating life without Mr. Beck.
On the other side, people who work for Mr. Beck point out that he could live without Fox News. Unlike some other cable hosts, Mr. Beck has a huge multiplatform presence: he has sold around four million books, is near the top of talk-radio ratings, has a growing Web site called The Blaze, along with a stage performance that still packs houses. Forbes estimated that his company, Mercury Radio Arts, had more than $30 million in revenue.
How could a breakup between Mr. Beck and Fox News — a bond that seemed made in pre-Apocalyptic heaven — come to pass? They were never great friends to start with: Mr. Beck came to Fox with a huge radio show and had been on CNN Headline News, so he did not owe his entire career to Fox and frequently went off-message. The sniping between Fox News executives and Mr. Beck’s team began soon after he went on the air in 2009.
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I think that Glenn's predictions have been proven quite well. I trust his sources more than Fox's, although Fox has been doing okay with just reporting the news rather than interpreting and predicting where we are and where we might be heading. Glenn's track record has turned out to be true for the most part, like the rising costs of foods and also all that has transpired in the middle east.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Beck is a boil on the ass of media and this country. It's an anomaly that he made it onto a Nat. TV platform. He really belongs on shortwave and podcasts w/the likes of Alex Jones. He makes predictions that are unfalsifiable. "There's a Caliphate coming", "It might not happen", "if it does, I don't know when". Pretty hard to be wrong when you cover every possible outcome. But his sycophants ignore the misses and just lap-up his drivel.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Beck is the best thing that's happened to this country since Reagan took office. It's refreshing to know someone out there bothers to research what's really going on behind the scenes in Washington. With the country's economy at the edge of a cliff we all need to wake up.
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