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Re: Fox news isn't "popular press" ?

Fox News is nowhere near as pervasive as the British tabloid press. The USA has a population of 325m; even at its most watched (around 12m for the presidential debates) Fox News reaches fewer than 4% of Americans. The Daily Mail, Metro (which is owned by the Mail and pushes the same stories) and Sun sell (or gives away in the case of the Metro) 4.5m copies per day, more than all other British newspapers put together. It is estimated that every copy of the Sun bought is read by at least 4 people, the Daily Mail by 2; I can't find a figure for Metro but given that it is given away on railway stations and is often read and left on trains for the next person to read it is probably similar to the Sun. , so the total reach is in the order of 10-20% of the UK population. In addition many of the Euro lies pedalled by these papers are reported on the front page with page filling headlines. It is virtually impossible to go into a newsagent, petrol station or supermarket without reading these headlines, resulting in many people believing these lies because they never see beyond the headline, or see the retraction when it's printed (in one year the Daily Mail printed over 200 retractions and major corrections to stories)

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