With radio, the top of the hour always begins with a self-aggrandizing, overly-produced introduction to a program I may have been listening to for half an hour already.
Although CNN drew 690,000 in the 2 p.m. hour, it was the only major cable news outlet to grow within the same Friday timeslot compared to its previous five Fridays.
Talk radio and other traditional media are constantly exploited by slick professional manipulators of public opinion who operate at every level of political influence from the White House Press Secretary down to your local school district’s media department.
Biden’s Mar. 7 address is the first time a president in the fourth year of his first term has seen State of the Union viewership increase compared to the year prior.
The undeniable fact is personal endorsements work and they’re a great profit tool. Major market stations charge advertisers between 30 and 40+ percent premium rates for endorsements.
For South Carolina from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24, the three major cable news outlets — Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN — combined to deliver 4.32 million viewers...