Is Cable News Overated?

I saw this at Contentions.

Fox Dominates Cable News Ratings

Peter Wehner - 07.28.2010 - 2:09 PM

According to the Huffington Post, Fox News continued its complete domination of cable-news ratings in July. The network averaged 1.85 million viewers in primetime for the month — more than CNN, MSNBC, and HLN combined. The top 11 rated programs, each with a total of more than a million viewers, belong to Fox News (three programs topped two million viewers). As a point of comparison, no other program on any other cable network was able to draw as many as a million viewers (Hardball with Chris Matthews, for example, was able to draw only a little more than half a million watchers).

The dominance of Fox News is an extraordinary media phenomenon. Roger Ailes is a genius at his profession. And the success of Fox News continues to cause liberals to vent and fume, pout and lash out, whine and act irrationally. Sometimes breaking up a quasi-monopoly will do that to people.

In any event, it’s time for liberals to make their own inner peace with a Fox-dominated cable-news world. If they don’t, they will continue to go around the bend.

This is sort of a reality check is it not as to really how engaged Americans wish to be with politics. I mean the way us Politico oriented political bloggers act hanging on every word and then cheer leading or going on attack mode as to the Matthews, the Olberman's, The Becks, The Hannity's you would think that tens and ten of millions of Americans are glued to the set watching them every night.

It also might mean our friends are really being polite to us as they have to listen to us explain the exciting stuff we saw last night on talking head show x.