In 2004 Fox remained cable news's undisputed leader in ratings, or the number of people watching at any given time.

By one way of measuring, looking at total viewership throughout the day, Rupert Murdoch's news network generally commanded around 55% of cable news audience during the year, according to Nielsen Media Research's measurement of "total day" viewing. This figure measures the average number of viewers over the course of an entire day -- 24 hours. CNN is second in total-day viewership, with roughly 30%; MSNBC captures the remaining 15 percent.

http://tinyurl.com/54yqze (pew site)

On a day when people are dying in Gaza, Iraq, and soon enough Iran, these were the top stories on the FOX web site.

* Brazil Discovers Uncontacted Indian Tribe in Amazon Jungle

* Homeless Woman Who Lived Undetected in Japanese Man's Closet for a Year Caught

* 'Elephant Man' Refuses to Hide From Facial Deformity

* FBI Agent Indicted After Having Affair With Suspect's Wife

* Pop Tarts: Hugh Hefner's Girlfriend 'Scared' of Being Naked

* Scientists: Stonehenge Was Ancient Burial Ground

* Photo of John Travolta Signing Autograph for Drew Peterson Could Be Evidence in Weapons Case

* Construction Crane Collapses in New York City, 2 Dead

* Marine in Iraq Pulled From Duty After Allegedly Handing Out Christian Coins

* Bill Murray's Wife Says Couple Moved to Beat Drug, Sex Addictions

* Report: Clay Aiken Impregnates Woman by Artificial Insemination

* Pop Tarts: Girls or Guys? Jenna Jameson Sets the Record Straight on Her Sexuality

* Baby Born After Rare Ovarian Pregnancy

* 400 Party Crashers Trash, Rob Mansion After Host's Open Invite on Facebook

* Pitt Manager Won't Comment on Conflicting Jolie Birth Reports

* Grunt and Center: Victim Says Workout Shouts Led to NYC Gym Assault

Here are some stats from PBS on where America gets its news. Check out the full article it's very informative.

# On a typical day... 57% of Americans watch TV news

# 54% watch their local news

# 34% watch cable news channels

# 28% watch the nightly network news

# 23% watch the morning news programs (The Today Show, Good Morning America, etc.)

# 40% of Americans read a newspaper

# 36% of Americans listen to news on the radio

# 23 % of Americans get news online

# 18% visit news aggregators (Google News, Yahoo! News, AOL News, etc.)

# 14% visit national TV networks' sites (CNN.com, MSNBC.com, ABCnews.com, etc.)

# 14% visit newspaper Web sites

# 4% visit news blogs

# 3% visit online news magazines (Slate.com, Salon.com, etc.)

Here's a scary one, Drudge gets 10 million hits a day. 10 million.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/part3/stats.html

Just because someone told you Louis, doesn't make it true. I would love to see some examples of the 'press' "chomping" on McCllellan or anyone else for that matter.

There is no free press in America, hasn't been in years. Don't you read Greenwald?

The only reason America has turned on Bush is because he lost the war, if the oil was flowing, it would all be okay; and simple Scotty would never have written his book.

It's worth reading Drudge for the same reason the OSS read The Völkische Beobachter, the number one Nazi propaganda organ before and during the war. It helps if you know what your enemy is thinking.

Edited by Rosenberg, the most popular paper overall in Nazi Germany was the Volkische Beobachter, or 'People Watcher'. It was completely submitted to Nazi Philosophy and attitude and because of the approval and sponsorship of the Reich, grew to be Munich's number one daily newspaper. The VB had its inceptions before the rise to power of the Third Reich, but grew in eminence and along with Der Sturmer shared a paradoxical position: the two Hitler favored and the two Goebbels did not. Goebbels main complaint with the Vokische Beobachter was 'bad editing'.

http://www.shoaheducation.com/nazipublications.html

Drudge is the foetid font of neocon waste from which much of the filth originates.

A hunter/gatherer spends about 20 hours a week hunting and gathering. The rest of the time is free for other activities. If you want to learn about 'primitive peoples' read Wade Davis' "One River" a brilliant book on life in the rain forest.

We have lived as hunter gatherers for most of our time here on Earth, and during that time we managed to avoid eco-catastrophe and thermonuclear weapons. I really believe that our memories of Eden/paradise are really racial memories of our time in the real garden, the forests and plains of Africa from which we come.

These poor people who are about to be "discovered" are in serious trouble, most will die of disease, the rest are likely to be hunted down and killed by greedy ranchers who are not allowed to graze or farm land that is "occupied". Welcome to civilization.

Assumptions are made that people live much longer and healthier lives today than Stone Agers did, and that Stone Agers did not live long enough to acquire the chronic degenerative diseases of modern civilization. The idea that hunter gatherers' lives were "nasty, brutish, and short" is actually an exaggeration that was popularized by Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. Dr. Cordain explains (as have others) the scientific findings that human life expectancies DECLINED when Stone Age hunter-gatherers adopted an agrarian lifestyle at the start of the Neolithic era. The later increases in life expectancy were mainly due to public health advances in sanitation, food safety, quarantine systems, immunizations and childbirth survival rates. Thirty three years was the estimated AVERAGE life expectancy of a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer male, not the maximal lifespan of all hunter gatherers. A hunter gatherer who survived childbirth, infectious disease, accidents, battles, and wild animals could be expected to live as long as we do today. Moreover, archaeological and anthropological studies of Paleolithic records and contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures show much lower prevalence of heart disease, sudden cardiac death, cancer, stroke and even acne than in modern societies.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2RWV4G7UXYBHC

Thanks for pointing that out, I should have said something like, "too many Americans get their news..." or something like that. Still though, one is too many.

I will be more careful in the future.