"The original intent was to make a profit by targeting the liberal base the same way Fox targets the conservative base, . . ."
I don't doubt it, but CNN was around for years before Fox. I believe Fox came out to be the anti-CNN and it worked. In spades. ". . . but CNN and MSNBC have not been able to pull it off." And the model has been failing for years yet it persists, profits be damned. In fact, if I remember correctly, a year or two ago GE shareholders were upset with the leftward tilt of <http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/04/22/ge-shareholders-meeting-crowd-was-very-upset-msnbc>MSNBC and GE just shrugged it off. The refusal to change reminds me of a joke about a struggling farmer. He won a lottery for a large amount of money. People are always curious about what a winner will do with such a windfall so he was often asked "What are you going to do with all of that money?" He always answered: "I guess I'll keep farming until I go broke." J - What we have here in America today is a real-life jump-the-shark drama, starring a super-narcissistic president so desperate to create his own vainglorious legacy that he is willing to destroy his own political party and do enduring damage to his country in pursuit of his purely selfish ends. - Kyle-Anne Shiver ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334884 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
