Comments on: Ratings Pet Peeve #45: Pundit Wars and Politics http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/18/ratings-pet-peeve-45-pundit-wars-and-politics/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Jeffrey Jones http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/18/ratings-pet-peeve-45-pundit-wars-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:53:45 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=371#comment-71 Well, that truly is the transformative epistemological power of Fox, isn’t it–that they have almost single-handedly connected OUR conceptions of news to ideology/partisanship. The converse–that what cable news is really about is television (an exciting performance of style) and the numbers game that is associated with the table scraps of cable audiences–isn’t really entertained, though it should be.

]]> By: Erin Copple Smith http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/11/18/ratings-pet-peeve-45-pundit-wars-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:12:37 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=371#comment-68 Excellent post on something that aggravates me, too. Ultimately, it’s a hasty generalization (thank you, brain that’s currently immersed in teaching fallacies to undergrads)–there are countless explanations for the ratings disparity between right- and left-leaning news media.

I’ve heard it argued that lefties watch Fox just to be informed about what the other side is saying/doing (much more than righties watch MSNBC). I’ve also heard arguments suggesting that lefties simply get their news from multiple sources–not just a single cable news outlet.

In any event, as your awesome closing line (hee! Prez Meredith Grey!) so keenly notes–ratings are not sufficient in deducing national political ideology.

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