I'm keeping FOX on all night. THIS IS RICH! I don't know the talking heads but...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

One guy just said, "sometimes the blogoshpere, picks up on things we don't see." YA RIGHT! or rather don't report and wish we wouldn't spread the word.

then he said, "right and left on the blogosphere seem to agree that robo-calls are obnoxious," and then added, "I guess it's celebrities or somebody sending out these calls." LOL! I'D SAY! hmmm, I wonder who spent all that desperation cash in the final days. Probably it was "celebrities." I wonder which ones. I spent my career in media and all year if I accidentally landed on FOX, I was mad in minutes but tonight I hear a distant sword of justice slicing through the crisp night air. Justice is sweet.

[knowbody0]

1. brit hume looks like a hound dog who lost his racoon!

thanks for the laugh.

[razors edge]

3. TOOOO DAMN FUNNY.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. i swear i'm literally rolling in the floor! comedy channel has NOTHING on FOX!

hmmm I wonder where all the hann-pity bashing picks went on google... I wanted one of Hann-pity crying

oh well, these will do in a pinch

[MazeRat7]

21. Glad to hear I'm not alone... Watching them is way better than I expected....

funny as hell to watch these pompus fucks report the end of the world..... :rofl:

MZr7

[BootinUp]

2. LOOK at HUME!

:rofl:

[jesus_of_suburbia]

18. Brit is about to cry on air! He can barely hold back the tears!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

19. I'd like to see democrats rebuild the FCC to break up media monopolies...

and I know it will never happen: but I'd like to see them banish His Majesty, Ruppert Murdoch (owner of FOX) back to England, where he can continue turning family oriented tabloids into purple-journalism spewing nudie-girl smut-sheets, like he did with the SUN!

[AldebTX]

4. Splintering of Democratic Party

Brit Hume predicts this election splinters the democrats since they are electing so many conservatives who won't be able to work with the Liberal party structure......I am chuckling.

[Radio_Lady]

6. Welcome to the DU, AldebTX!

Oh, you've been around (but inactive, I guess) since 2004.... anyway.

Have a GREAT night!

[AldebTX]

8. I Read Every Day

but post sparingly.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. do you still work in media?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. OMG, no way! damn i missed the funnist one of all! i was hunting the pics

[July]

5. Wow, MSM a day late and a dollar short. Who'd 'a thunk it?

The first MSM network that buys a clue that the internet is here to stay will have an incredible advantage over their (equally lame) counterparts.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. that's a good point july... media should be on the cutting edge...

geez fox sure has on the commercials before Ray-gun dismantled the FCC, stations couldn't run but a specific amount and those ads that blast you out as volume goes up on its own were forbiden... it was a law that not only serves the consumer but also the media because back then people would actually listen to a few... Ray-gun's move of reducing 10 commissioners to 3 made the FCC less able to monitor media but even worse it created a situation where such a small number of people could easily agree on bad regulations. Worst of all, one radical change in the FCC allowed one person to buy up gigantic blocks of media. In the old days, if I owned a radio station, for example I was restricted from buying the newspaper in that market. Now, ClearChannel owns nearly every station in the country and, while your local station may sound live, it is likely pre-recorded. I toured a Clear-Channel facility years ago. It was 20 radio stations broadcasting from a single facility with NO DISC JOCKEYS. It made me want to vomit.

[butterfly77]

7. If they were really fair and balanced they would be..

showing excitement when results come in...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. LOL, your funny as FOX... "fair and balanced" in the same sentence with FOX?

[bluedogyellowdog]

10. "Celebrities"??

More like, the same puppeteers that are behind the "Fox News Network" are also behind the robo-calls.

[trof]

12. The 'explanations' and 'rationale' are just ludicrous.

They're in a state of severe denial.
But then they always were.
:shrug:

[Minnesota_Lib]

13. Little Willie Kristole can barely speak....he sounds close to a breakdown

[OzarkDem]

16. Ha! Ha! They just projected Casey would win in PA

Hume looks like he's going to cry.
:nopity:

[Beelzebud]

17. LOL It is a sad bunch at Fox News tonight! LOL It's great to watch

[redacted]

20. Yep and you know why--they've seen both their exit polls and the GOP's and

neither are looking good at this point. They know that if the vote hacking doesn't work, they have some serious problems ahead.

[rodeodance]

22. thanks, i do not have cable.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

23. here's a Private Message describing MEDIA from an insiders perspective...

This correspondence was between myself and in my humble opinion one of the best writers on DU, who I will not name without her permission. It's a short but VERY revealing read.

Thanks for your positive, encouraging message but it's still a bit too early for me to buy champagne. You write extremely well, which I'm sure others mention regularly. Have you ever worked in media?

Much of my experience is in advertising where repetition is key in producing desired results. As Shakespeare wrote "ay, there's the rub." A quick two week exposure of a new idea like DIEBOLD, which can easily be construed by the public and, perhaps later even media, as "conspiracy theory," has little long-term impact.

In writing, a pitfall for many with good command of language and grammar, is over-estimating abilities of a reader to understand. Work you present at DU, does not suggest that you have any problems relating to THESE readers but at this site I've noticed a higher intellect and education than we might find in the public of most media markets. In other words, those idiots outside DU have very short memories and even the simplest concepts must be hammered into their heads for months, which is the main reason that they ever voted Republican in the first place.

I've become quite spoiled writing for this demographic. Even with my graphic presentations, it is nice to realize that a fairly broad cross-section of viewers is grasping subtle suggestive nuances, which are not accidental. Outside DU, that kind of work is like casting pearls before swine.

In media, I've seen a broadcaster read exactly the same copy twice in a row, with each reading offering the probability of carrying a viewer or listener in a different direction. It's as simple as a magician's thumb trick for a pro to divert their eyes or cast slight inflection into their voice and totally change audience perception, which is why Clear-Channel has so few live broadcasters actually on the air. What amazes me is that if a silly electronic box offers the information it is as if Moses just brought down stone tablets of profound truth. These people in America better wake up. It is and always was, simply a slight-of-hand trick. The only difference is that back then, we engaged in black magic to a far lesser degree.

While, FOX might look like idiots on cocaine to us, make no mistake -- master propagandists sit just outside the foot-lights, meticulously coaching every broadcast. To think it stops at FOX is a plummet into folly. Anyone with enough millions to lose money for so long on that dog has resources to reach ANY demographic, including mine. Like cocaine, FOX is addictive and has unseen but dangerous effects on a consumer. What pisses me off is that I can no longer even enjoy the History Channel. Those reasonably accurate broadcasts once felt like a pair of comfy old slippers but now their programming fits like six-inch heels, which not only feel odd but also look ridiculous on most men.

In proofing my PM to you, it occurs to me that if we present this material to DU as a whole, it might benefit this highly intelligent group. Some mental armoring in upcoming months will not be a bad thing for this intellectual audience.