“I have absolutely nothing productive to add, and I either haven’t read or don’t really understand the arguments being voiced around me, so I’m going to be a pedantic troll and reply to every single comment with snarky comments that aren’t even remotely funny.”

You’re aware traffic numbers are not how you evaluate “want”, right?

Read the whole thread. I’ve already addressed this. He’s wrong.

What? The article itself shows tweets from local fox and MSNBC affiliates in places all across the country. I have not treated this like “a food columnist” was doing it - in fact, I used the exact examples that were cited in the article.

You fucking moron. The colloquial understanding of “self-appointed” doesn’t require there to be any actual appointment - that’s the whole fucking point, that one has given themselves a title that is not given. Are there any terms you know how to use correctly?

*self-appointed - statisticians aren’t having their faces rubbed with holy oil by priests, now are they?

See my other responses. You don’t seem to understand how digital media statistics work.

No. This is why they don’t let people like you, who work in TV, handle statistical analysis when you try to switch to digital media - because you don’t know what you’re doing. There’s a reason your industry is dying and struggling to monetize and ours is not - we use reliable metrics, and you don’t.

TV news has the least reliable metrics when compared to online advertising. Your numbers don't show what you seem to think they show.

Good to know you reied without reading the rest of the thread. I've already addressed this, and you're wrong

This will be my last post responding to you.

Hey, buddy! I don’t have to do it! I already have! You’re free to go to http://www.comscore.com, sign up for an account, and view for yourself! Just because I don’t feel like spending 20 minutes going through excel sheets right now doesn’t mean I’m wrong! I’m sure that someone as smart as you should be able to do that…

Should I slow this down for you? Should I use smaller words? Here, I’ll try again:

I see you don’t really understand how statistics work. Here, let me help you out - it’s kind of my thing!

This is a fallacy. I check the news everyday, regardless of what’s being shown. If it’s a slow news-day, I read boring shit and spend more time on Facebook. If it’s not, I don’t. That doesn’t mean that I’m actively choosing to read the gore, so much as I would have read whatever you put in front of me, and you chose…

And those “fee fees” couldn’t have come out a patriarchal society that isolated these males who didn’t fit the status quo, could it?

Yep! Redditt’s evil, 4chan’s evil, Gawker’s evil! They’re all evil! Entirely! And me denying that totally means that I’m making out 4Chan to be the victims in this equation! Great observations, so astute! I’m glad I have you here to set me straight!

Not at all, but way to highlight that you don’t really understand what #notallmen means!

You know how y’all love laughing with Marshawn Lynch as he trolls the media, lamenting the fact that sports journalism has descended to such depths that sports reporters really can’t ask a worthwhile question?

Your last name is Dries - you were meant to blot. It’s destiny.