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Apr162021

Combat Cable Competition

      After Trump (hopefully not "between Trump", as I can't even imagine it) the polarized cable warriors have no 3rd party to vilify/deify.  Neither side is able to offer much that is inflammatory about Biden, good or bad. But, in that the show must go on, both red and blue have pretty much turned to vilifying each other. Frequently their segments will offer as much as 30% "competition play-back", always cherry picked for ease of ridicule.

I know no stats on how many viewers watch relatively equal amounts of red vs blue, but I suspect it is small.  Unless you are in this rare group you increasingly not only love/hate Trump, you now love/hate all of the people who align with your enemy, the "communist/fascist" media outlets,  and by inclusion, all of those brave enough to claim allegiance to "my news station". 

I can't remember his name, but a self promoting pundit offered up during the days of Trump fever, "Buckle up buttercup...it's gonna be a rough ride". Frighteningly likely, unless Biden can start a  "foreign contained war" to provide Chris & Chris and Sean & Tucker a minimum ration of propaganda meat....otherwise they may have to cross the line into "being news makers"....  perhaps by pouring enough gas on the Qanon/BLM fissure that cable will get to cover "the rockets red glare" in Kansas City, and Denver, and Birmingham, and all the other places who historically showed plain old boring Americana.

Why?....I guess so we will switch to AT&T and then back to Verizon    

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