USA Today puts FNC's success in short, sweet, stark black-and-white today in its Life section:
The conflict in the Middle East raised ratings for all cable news channels, but top-ranked Fox News Channel showed the largest growth. It averaged 1.9 million viewers in prime time, a 34% jump over the previous three weeks. CNN was up 23% to 1 million viewers, while MSNBC attracted 384,000 viewers, a 16% jump.
Which, of course, must make these overgrown toddlers referenced in Glenn Garvin's must-read Miami Herald piece on Fox chief Roger Ailes' address at the TCA even more in need of a nap and a bottle:
About two-thirds of the 150 critics left the room before Ailes took the stage, several of them openly voicing their scorn for what they say is Fox News' conservative spin....
Next year, the same critics are planning to take it up a notch with a promise to hold its breath and maybe jump up and down during the Fox session instead, maybe throw some Cheerios at the podium...
