{"id":77975,"date":"2021-05-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77975"},"modified":"2021-05-23T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T15:50:32","slug":"build-it-and-they-will-come-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77975","title":{"rendered":"Build It And They Will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Almost 35 years ago, reacting to the Democrat bias in the media, Rush Limbaugh brought fearless, joyful paleoconservatism [1].  Spends thirty years dominating the ratings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades ago, reacting to &#8220;liberal&#8221; slant from the Big Three and CNN, Rupert Murdoch creates Fox News [2].  It dominates cable ratings for decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021:   reacting to a landscape of deadly dull, smugly &#8220;progressive&#8221; late night hosts that all have different names but may as well be reading off the same deadly dull script [3], Fox Launches <em>Gutfeld<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;ll be happening in decades?   Time will tell, but <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/554203-fox-news-late-night-show-gutfeld-nears-top-of-ratings-race?rl=1\">the roll-out has been pretty spectacular<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve added emphasis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Gutfeld!\u201d averaged 1.6 million viewers for the week ending May 14, beating Kimmel on ABC and Fallon on NBC, though it trailed CBS&#8217;s \u201cLate Show with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/stephen-colbert\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>,\u201d Nielsen data shows.<\/p><p>May 13 was the Fox show\u2019s best night so far, with 1.8 million viewers, placing second only to Colbert&#8217;s show, which drew 1.9 million viewers. <strong>Gutfeld&#8217;s show beat Colbert slightly in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The free market will provide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why the Harris Administration is trying to hard to kill it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] &#8220;But but but but he was so <em>hateful<\/em>!&#8221;   He was no such thing. You&#8217;re projecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2] &#8220;But but but but but but they&#8217;re teh biased!&#8221;.  In terms of news coverage?  Less so than CNN.   In terms of opinion programming?   Who cares (other than &#8220;you, because you&#8217;re threatened by dissent and have no productive, adult way to deal with it&#8221;, I mean). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[3] The fact that Stephen Colbert has a late night show at all shows that the late-night comedy gene pool is very, very shallow.   The fact that Samantha Bee and Jimmy Kimmel have late-night shows tells us that gene poll is inflatable and gets filled with a hose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 35 years ago, reacting to the Democrat bias in the media, Rush Limbaugh brought fearless, joyful paleoconservatism [1]. Spends thirty years dominating the ratings. Decades ago, reacting to &#8220;liberal&#8221; slant from the Big Three and CNN, Rupert Murdoch creates Fox News [2]. It dominates cable ratings for decades. 2021: reacting to a landscape of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77979,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77975\/revisions\/77979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}