Fox News popularity explained by Nikky Raney

After writing a 26 page long research paper about Fox News' conservative bias for my college English Composition class it's simple to explain why Fox News is known as the "most popular" or "most watched" news station.

Doing the research paper involved actually watching programs such as The O'Reilly Factor and viewing segments on the show. Along with comparing the headlines and online content of Fox News as opposed to CNN's online content.

Instead of posting the 26 page long paper - this post will just be a simply explanation as to why Fox News gets the most views.

Fox News is the only news source of its kind. Fox News is where all the conservatives go to watch their news primarily. Fox News viewership is primarily white older males on the conservative sides.

On the opposite side of the spectrum there are news stations such as CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, etc. All the aforementioned stations are not conservative. Some may argue that the stations are not unbiased and objective - and most will say that most those stations lean to the left.

So, there is ONE station that leans to the right, but many stations that seem to lean toward the left.

The people who enjoy the news that leans to the left are all going to go to each of those stations. So all of those "left leaning" stations are competing for the views of those who watch those stations.

Fox News has no competition when it comes to news that leans far to the right and is sensationalistic. Now, conservatives and liberals alike will skim and view a variety of news stations and liberals will sometimes watch Fox and conservatives will watch CNN - but the majority of conservatives stick to Fox News. There are not a bunch of conservative news stations fighting for viewership of the conservatives.

The other news stations ARE competing for those viewers.

So. Let's say there are 50 conservatives and 50 liberals. All 50 conservatives are going to watch Fox News, but 20 liberals might watch CNN, another 20 might watch MSNBC, and 10 of them might watch CBS.

In that case the reason that Fox News is getting the most viewers is because it is the only station of its kind.

Now, there is much more that can be said about Fox News. Lots of time and research has gone into explaining and proving the conservative bias of Fox News, but for now that is all that needs to be explained.

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"I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity."-- Julius Erving

Steven Slater: in poll, 60 percent think Slater's a hero

Steven Slater 

Former JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater may have lost his job, and shown the worst behavior of a stewart in history, but he's considered a hero by many. In fact, the Zennie62 Poll revealed that almost 60 percent of 472 voters polled online as of this writing think he's a hero.

That's right, a hero.

One Zennie62 poll commenter wrote:

Did you see that mark on his forehead? Then being accosted by that passenger. I hear it cost him 25,000 for deploying that escape ramp. There was no real harm done,he lost his job.Let it go,lesson learned.

Of the now, 480 votes (the poll results change every minute), 57.92 percent think Steven Slater's a hero, 21.04 percent think he should have kept his cool, 12.71 percent blame JetBlue's working conditions, but think Slater should have kept his cool, 6.25 percent think he endangered lives, and 2.08 percent think he should have not taken the job in the first place.

Slater jumped ship

Steve Slater got into an argument with a passenger over an overhead bag that fell out of the bin hit him on the head. After the passenger called him names, he fired back with some of his own, then got on the PA system and said he had enough, went into the galley and got a beer, then activated the emergency chute, slid down it, went home and screwed his partner. When the police came, Slater was caught in the act.

Too funny.

Now, Slater's out of jail and a Facebook page has been put up to help raise money for his defense. This space disagrees with NewsOne, but can see understand the frustration with uncivil passengers. Still, here's the Facebook page: Steven Slater Facebook.

What do you think about Steven Slater? Take my poll:

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Steven Slater - why Jet Blue former flight attendant was wrong

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Flight Attendants are the ones we count on 

Unless JetBlue CEO David Barger has a change of heart, his flight attendant Steven Slater is out of a job.

And while Slater may be richer from it, what's disturbing is that his act of total self-absorbtion is being hailed and celebrated around the country.

Not here.

When you're assigned an exit row seat, the flight attendant asks you if you take responsibility for opening the door and going through the safety steps necessary if the plane gets into some kind of water accident. I always answer "yes" with gusto.

The job of a flight attendant is to answer the call with gusto on every flight. Yes, I understand that packed planes, cut budgets, and the unraveling of social civility have taken their toll on you, but it's far better to make that a union issue than to do what Steven Slater did: jump ship.

What Steven Slater did was all about Steven Slater and no one else. If that's the message flight attendants want to send, it's a sad year and decade for air travel.

What do you think about Steven Slater? Take my poll:

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Lindsay Lohan's Judge Quits Case by Tina Musial

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Lindsay Lohan's presiding Judge Marsha Revel couldn't take the heat any more. Judge Revel removed herself from Lindsay Lohan's case allegedly because of some backroom phone calls the lawyers did not approve of. These lawyers met with Judge Revel on Friday to discuss the improprieties - but she just now vacated the case.


Now, what exactly didn't the lawyers approve of? According to TMZ:

We're told one of the issues -- Judge Revel took it upon herself to make contact with people from the Morningside Recovery rehab facility and then selected Morningside, even though it was not on the list of recommended facilities by her own court-appointed experts. Ultimately, Lindsay's lawyer convinced Judge Revel to send LiLo to UCLA. But the issue was raised on Friday.

Should it really matter that the judge made phone calls? She was checking around, getting background info on Lindsay Lohan. the lawyers should know that the judges do not follow gossip blogs, therefore she had to scoop out some info elsewhere!

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater quits - take Zennie62 poll

Steven Slater, who literally jumped from his job as a flight attendant at JetBlue Flight Attendant, is a hero to some people, and a goat to others, including me.  He's also out of jail, now and said to be pondering his next move.

As a constant passenger, this blogger and other travelers rely on flight attendants to keep their cool. Steven Slater didn't do that at all. He lost it and jumped out.

Keith Olbermann's right that Steven Slater will get his own reality show, and great, but what does this say for how flight attendants will be regarded in the future?

What do you think about Steven Slater? Take my poll:

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Cardinals Reds fight - Phillips vs. Molina

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Yadier Molina 

A stupid brawl broke out between Brandon Phillips and Yadier Molina during the St. Louis Cardinals vs. Cincinnati Reds MLB game. What was a jawing match at first, turned into a full on brawl involving several players on both sides.

Johnny Cueto used his cleats to hit someone; not cool, to say the least.

Eventually, both managers Dusty Baker and Tony La Russa were ejected from the game.

But I've got to say, this blog post by St. Louis Today's Bernie Miklasz was just plain dumb. What's this guy want, blood lust. He blogs:

Of course, Molina stood up against the Reds' disturber of the peace, Brandon Phillips, in the bottom of the first Tuesday. Phillips, being an obvious phony, tapped Molina on the shin guards as he approached the plate for his first at-bat. Hold on now: if you "hate" all of the Cardinals, and if you have called all of them "little bitches," then why would you try to buddy up to Molina there? What kind of chicken manure move is that? After he dropped hate speech and borderline homophobic slurs on Molina and his 24 teammates, Phillips had a sudden urge to play nice?

Unbelievable. Talk about people who like to see stupid fights. Man!

Oakland City Council Race: Libby Schaaf files papers for run

Libby Schaaf, who's constant attention to detail and hard work ethic has earned her California Attorney General Jerry Brown's endorsement, officially filed her paper work to run for the Oakland City Council District Four Seat on Tuesday.

Even before Libby filed the papers, she managed to raise over $76,000. This space supports Libby Schaaf for City Council District Four Seat.

The question is, did the other candidates file their papers?  If not, then the field of challengers will have been reduced and we will know who the competitors finally are.