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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: The Ratings Mirage By Steve Rendall Reporting on the ratings rivalry between the Fox News Channel (FNC) and CNN is often misleading--and almost always over-hyped. "Fox Tops CNN as Choice for Cable News," declared one typical headline (Chicago Tribune , 3/24/03). "Fox News Channel Continues to Crush CNN ," reported Knight Ridder (Dallas Morning News , 2/3/04) in a column comparing the rivalry to a party primary: "Fox News Channel is winning the Nielsen caucuses." Last summer (8/17/03), the New York Times Magazine declared, looking back at the period of the Iraq invasion, "Fox was--and still is--trouncing CNN in the ratings." After exposure to countless similar stories published since January 2002, when Fox was reported to have surpassed CNN in the Nielsen ratings, one might naturally conclude that Fox has more viewers than CNN . But it's not true. On any given day, more people typically tune to CNN than to Fox . To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2005 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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