Last week, it was made very clear that
FOX's ratings have continued to slide. Making many wonder if the network's fate had been linked to that of the Bush Administration. No one, atleast those that are not partisan hacks, know that FOX is a Pro-Bush network, so the two being linked is no surprise. It is funny that FNC's thorn in the side is the one to
make the best sense of it - Keith Olbermann.
"When the stock market was through the roof in the '90s, people used to sit around and watch CNBC and slap high fives and say, 'I made another hundred bucks today!' " said MSNBC host and O'Reilly foe Keith Olbermann, adding that CNBC's ratings quickly went south when the tech bubble burst.
"I think the same psychology applies to Fox. They'll always have their hard-core audience that wants to hear, 'Everything's great! [Bush is] doing a great job.' " But less-partisan viewers are drifting away, Olbermann argued.
Even CNN's Ralph Klein agreed with that thought -
Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/US, agrees. "Maybe this is part of the deal with the devil you make when a supposed news network allies itself so closely with one point of view," he said.
So what will FOX due to get the ratings back up. Maybe they should listen to comedian Lewis Black, who once stated that only FOX could make money producing a program on one of its networks and then have a month of bitchin' about it on another of its network. May I suggest a Janet Jackson reality show?