Will Fox News Channel cancel or suspend Glen Beck's television program in 2009?
Even though he appears on a cable network very well-known for its slate of personalities and "journalists" espousing a radical Right agenda--Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Steve Doocy, to name but a few--host Glenn Beck has managed to make himself stand out in a very big, and very money-losing, way. The basic problem: will Fox News Channel be able and willing to hold onto a host whose ratings are rising while advertisers are fleeing his show in droves? This market wants to know whether Beck's television show on Fox will survive the year.
Beck--already well-known for his oftentimes bizarre and borderline paranoid rants against anything that smacks of liberal or progressive ideals--went even further on July 28th, 2009, when he said that U.S. President Barack Obama has "a deep-seeded hatred for white people”, and followed that by stating, “this guy is, I believe, a racist.” The remarks led various groups--namely, the people behind the website ColorOfChange.org--to call on advertisers to boycott Beck's show.
They've done so, and in alarming numbers. As of September 15, a total of 62 national advertisers had pulled all their spots from Beck's show. While Fox News denies that the boycott has hurt their revenue, most legitimate outside media analysts say that there's simply no way that could be the truth.
The truth may be in the pudding. Or rather, the pulling...the pulling of Beck's show. No network, regardless of its unmoveable grasp on one particular ideology, nor its desire to keep a show with paradoxically high ratings but just a trickle of advertising dollars, can last long when large chunks of those dollars are disappearing. This market simply wants to know whether the Beck's Fox News Channel show will make it to the end of 2009.
How much ad money has Glenn Beck lost? (Media Matters)
Glen Beck (Wikipedia)
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
1) Please note that this question only relates to Fox News Channel's televised Glen Beck Show.
2) Merely moving the show to a different time slot will not count.
3) Note that this will settle on 'Yes' whether Beck's show is canceled outright or goes on an extended hiatus (suspension). (Normal breaks caused by Beck's absence due to vacation, etc., will not count towards; any absence must be due to cancellation or suspension.)
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Beck is here. Get used to it.
My guess is that he's going to say/do something soon that's going to force Fox's hand. The guy's quite obviously mentally/emotionally unstable; he's like dynamite that's starting to sweat, or a grenade with the pin out, or a hair-triggered rifle with the safety off: it's not going to take much to make him explode in a blast of angry conservative, pseudo-patriotic, podium-pounding spittle and tears...
Well I'll just say that I completely and totally, respectfully disagree
: )
FWIW, while there may be some who hate Beck, it's not hate that most progressives feel towards him; it's that we want to move beyond the negative and nasty politics of the past, the do-nothing, mud-slinging, always-deceiving crap of yesterday...and loudmouths like Beck--men who have large and loud microphones--are the vestiges of that past. So long as they're broadcasting their bile, that certain segment of society that lazily accepts their populist and inflammatory rhetoric while dismissing all independent thought will flock to them like the sheep they are--and that bothers us.
No, I don't want beck shut up by the government; I'd be the first person to stand up and defend his right to spew his hatred. But by the same token, if I can convince some advertisers that we'll not be putting money in their pockets so long as they're supporting that hatred, so much the better.
that's divisive, that's full of misrepresentations and half-truths and bald-faced lies.
is that ---> moving beyond the negative and nasty politics of the past, the do-nothing, mud-slinging, always-deceiving crap of yesterday
So long as they're broadcasting their bile, that certain segment of society that lazily accepts their populist and inflammatory rhetoric while dismissing all independent thought will flock to them like the sheep they are--and that bothers us.
is that what you say about keith olberman's viewers?
beck has invited obama or anybody from the whitehouse to come on his show and make their case. they call him while he's on (according to beck) to complain about what he's saying, but won't confront him on air. hmmm.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/108118/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-sean-hannity-uses-glenn-becks-protest-footage#s-p1-sr-i1
The network has no shame whatsoever, but that's to be expected in this day and age. What's sad, though, is that so many gullible people--that is, voters--buy their line of crap hook, line, and sinker.
(And, yes, that's the same wording I used in another market.)
and an increasing number of Americans--believe that Fox is anything but News is that why their ratings continue to climb?
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