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A war is starting and your big concern is a fringe talk show host that reaches < 1% of the population? Shelve the partisanship for a couple days.
by WillPostForFood 5y ago
A war is starting and your big concern is a fringe talk show host that reaches < 1% of the population? Shelve the partisanship for a couple days.
- jsiaajdsdaa 5y agoI do believe that Tucker reaches more than 1% of the population. Also, my opinion about this situation: war has no place in 2022.
- WillPostForFood 5y agoJust under 1% average: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30463730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30463730
- woodruffw 5y agoI'm not sure what's partisan about the GP's comment, unless any reference to Tucker's support for Russia is somehow partisan.
- WillPostForFood 5y agoIt is partisan, in the opening moments of a terrible war, to look to use said war as a way to attack your local political opponents, or to deflect blame from your political allies.
- csee 5y agoIt is relevant. These commentators give soft power to Putin.
- throwaway5752 5y agoHis show is watched by 1.5% of the US population and is the single most watched cable news show. I would find his comments abhorrent whether they were on Fox or MSNBC.
- WillPostForFood 5y agoRatings move around, but for Q4 2021, the last full quarterly ratings period, he averaged 3.2m viewers, which is just under 1% of the population. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/top-cable-news-shows-of-2021-tucker-carlson-tonight-is-no-1-in-all-categories-for-first-time-ever/496940/ https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/top-cable-news-shows-of-2021... He'd need to average another million viewers a night to get close to 1.5%.