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Role of the Media

Only times I watch cable news are when major breaking news is happening or it's election night. But even then most of my actual news on those days is still coming from Twitter and/or this board.
 
I get alerts on my phone to tell me when to bother turning on CNN.
 


I know some folks in the AM radio business. They’re expecting car companies to stop installing AM capable radios in cars this decade. That could be a big threat to the GOP propaganda control that form of media. It would also mean most AM radio stations would go out of business.
 
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Why are cars phasing out AM radio? How much more does it cost to have AM in a car?

Either way, seems like a free market decision.
 
PhDeac said:
Why are cars phasing out AM radio? How much more does it cost to have AM in a car?

Either way, seems like a free market decision.
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www.forbes.com

Radio Silent: Tesla, Ford And More EVs Phase Out AM Radio

Some EV automakers are beginning to eliminate AM radio from their dashboard. This is creating a backlash from groups citing the emergency broadcasting capabilities to provide.
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“Several prominent carmakers have decided for some of their models to drop AM radio from the dashboard. Most of the car models are electric vehicles (EVs). Automobile companies have noted electromagnetic interference with AM radio’s reception created by electric motors.”
 
More than a week after CNN’s disastrous town hall with former President Donald Trump, the negative impact the fiasco had on the network’s ratings is coming into clearer focus. Last week, the cable news pioneer suffered its lowest-rated week since June 2015, averaging just 429,000 total daily viewers from Monday-Friday. CNN was also down double digits compared to the same week last year in both total viewership and in the key advertising demographic of viewers ages 25-54. MSNBC more than doubled CNN’s daily audience, drawing 976,000 total viewers, while Fox News averaged 1.4 million. Fox News was down 41 percent in the key demo year-to-year and 24 percent in total viewers, having seen its ratings plummet as angry right-wingers flee after Tucker Carlson’s shock firing. In fact, Fox’s post-Tucker weekday demo audience is the lowest it’s been since the first week of September 2001. Ratings data show that primetime is where both Fox and CNN are suffering the most. Since the town hall, CNN has seen several of its weeknight hours—including Anderson Cooper—fall behind Newsmax, the fringe-right channel that has surged since Carlson’s ouster. And on Friday night, the channel’s much-hyped interview show hosted by Chris Wallace averaged only 224,000 total viewers at 10 p.m., drawing 60,000 fewer viewers than Newsmax’s offering. While Fox News still led in both total and demo viewership in weeknight primetime last week, the conservative cable giant’s overall audience was down 38 percent and the demo viewership dropped an eye-popping 60 percent. MSNBC, on the other hand, saw its demo audience shoot up 44 percent.
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If you want to turn CNN into Fox 2.0, you have to figure out how to get those viewers to come to you, otherwise you're just chasing off your current viewers for no reason.
 
Yet the CNN plan to fix this will probably be a Town Hall with DeSantis.
 
WakeForestRanger said:
I know some folks in the AM radio business. They’re expecting car companies to stop installing AM capable radios in cars this decade. That could be a big threat to the GOP propaganda control that form of media. It would also mean most AM radio stations would go out of business.
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I actually heard a radio propaganda ad this past weekend in rural VA urging people to contact Congress about the future of AM radio. Guess that’s a real thing. The pitch was pretty funny some parts were like “AM radio could be your only source of information in an emergency”. Umm….sure.
 
There is no straight news anymore. It is either slanted toward the left, or it is viewed as right wing propaganda, if it at all comes across as favoring the right. I will always vote for the economy, and that never is a vote for the dems. I learned that tidbit from watching the federal reserve chairman under every adminstration.
 
wfunme said:
There is no straight news anymore. It is either slanted toward the left, or it is viewed as right wing propaganda, if it at all comes across as favoring the right. I will always vote for the economy, and that never is a vote for the dems. I learned that tidbit from watching the federal reserve chairman under every adminstration.
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LOL. What's your definition of "the economy?" Tax cuts?

By the way, a Dem-nominated fed chair has only served 4 out of the last almost 36 years.
 
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