Déclassé: Cheap Plastic Crap & Blowhards

Has "America's Heartland" finally had enough? Don't hold your breath.

Poor Wal-Mart!

Wal-Mart's sales growth has sagged, in part because the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer, while still a low-price leader, doesn't have products on the floor that attract today's shoppers -- particularly in apparel, home furnishings and consumer electronics. It also has a problem with slow checkout service and its stores look uninspiring. LINK

OK. That was a bucket of whitewash crap. The Corporate-owned news hags simply refuse to tell the truth about Wal-Mart. Click the link above and see if you read a single word about the obvious effects of the national Buy Blue boycott of Walton's empire. I'll wait.

La Di Da. La Di Da. Time's up.

The truth totally ignored (except for one phrase about "community activists" complaining about labor issues) by the AP reporter... No big surprise there. Wal-Mart isn't doing well at all, and they'd rather blame their biz model than tell the truth. Sad, isn't it?

Remind me to give a damn about Wal-Mart's woes.

But, wait! There's more!

Quo vadis, Fox News?

A 58% drop in FOX News ("Fuck Off, Xenophiles!") viewers over the last six months?

Hm.

FNC's 25-54 Prime "Downward Spiral"

April '05 marks "the sixth consecutive month where FNC declined versus prior month in M-F, primetime P25-54 (every month since Nov '04)," CNN's press release says. The 25-54 demo is coveted by advertisers. One insider called it a "downward spiral." FNC still has more demo viewers than CNN, though (443k vs. 304k in April). Here are FNC's month-by-month weekday primetime averages in the 25-54 demographic:

Oct. 04: 1,074,000
Nov. 04: 891,000
Dec. 04: 568,000
Jan. 05: 564,000
Feb. 05: 520,000
March 05: 498,000
April 05: 445,000

Also: In April 2005, FNC's weekday primetime demo average decreased 25% compared to the year-ago, while CNN increased 27%. LINK

Frankly, these figures don't surprise me one bit. BushCo-controlled corporations and "news" outlets don't have to be successful. They just have to eat their losses and continue to wave the flag for George W. Inc.

To do otherwise would be unamerican.