Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h...
by WillPostForFood on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:58PM
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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.
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Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h...
by throwaway5752 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:01PM
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His 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.
Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h...
by WillPostForFood on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:29PM
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Ratings 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...
He'd need to average another million viewers a night to get close to 1.5%.
Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h...
by woodruffw on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:00PM
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I'm not sure what's partisan about the GP's comment, unless any reference to Tucker's support for Russia is somehow partisan.
Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h...
by WillPostForFood on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:41PM
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It 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.
Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h...
by jsiaajdsdaa on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:00PM
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I do believe that Tucker reaches more than 1% of the population.
Also, my opinion about this situation: war has no place in 2022.
Re:Dmitri Alperovitc: “Putin speech is over. Chilling. War h...
by WillPostForFood on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:38PM
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Just under 1% average: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30463730