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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
So... If Fox News has the biggest viewing audience, then doesn't that indicate that a large swath of the population agrees with their analysis?
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Yes. And as a previous poster pointed out - large swaths of the population find American Idol to be entertaining, and Britney Spears music to be good enough to purchase and eats at McDonalds regularly. Popularity does not infer quality, truth, accuracy, positivity, etc.
FoxNews is like Coke or Pepsi ... damn sure tastes good, but if you watch too much you'll rot your brain.
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If so, can we please put to rest the notion that FoxNews is an extremist organization and recognize it as a mainstream news outlet?
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As soon as we put to rest the notion that Liberalism is an extremist viewpoint.
Though truthfully - I have never considered Fox News to be extremist, so to present that as the argument is a strawman. Fox News is Republican. A large portion of the country is Republican. There is nothing extremist about it.
However, simply by virtue of being Republican it is therefore not representative of anything objectively described as "The Center". If you mean to imply that "mainstream" means it is centric, I would assuredly disagree.