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With reports that war footage from Lebanon is popular on websites such as YouTube.com, and a huge variety of English-language versions of Hebrew and Arabic newspapers reporting out of Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon, Americans certainly have their pick when it comes to coverage of events in the Middle East. So where do millions of Americans, after ...
With reports that war footage from Lebanon is popular on websites such as YouTube.com, and a huge variety of English-language versions of Hebrew and Arabic newspapers reporting out of Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon, Americans certainly have their pick when it comes to coverage of events in the Middle East. So where do millions of Americans, after a long day at work, get their news on the Middle East? From Bill O'Reilly, of course.
Fox News swept the top 20 spots for cable news ratings this past week during coverage of the crisis. One episode of The O’Reilly Factor was seen by more people than 2.6 million people – slightly higher than the circulation of USA Today, America’s most-widely read daily newspaper. Fox’s numbers blow away their TV rivals CNN and MSNBC by even wider margins. Up against O’Reilly, CNN’s Paula Zahn could only eek out an average of 871,000 viewers.
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