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Tue, 02/08/2011 - 9:12pm — lambert

Guardian:

The protests in Egypt have sparked an appetite for news among American TV viewers, with the evening news programmes getting their biggest viewing audiences for years.

The latest TV ratings from Nielsen reveals that NBC's Nightly News had its biggest weekly average audience in six years last week. NBC's news anchor Brian Williams presented the programme from Cairo for NBC's top-rated newscast. ABC and CBS also reported the best news ratings for a number of years.

Gee. Why would that be?

I mean, on the one hand there's Egypt, with an out-of-control oligarchy run by torturers who loot billions with complete impunity, an oligarchy that's grinding the peasants flatter than a politician's pancake makeup, plus millions of smart, educated, networked youth who can't find jobs, and then on the other there's the United States... Oh, wait....

NOTE I'm surprised we haven't heard any Mubarak Obama jokes yet. Won't hear 'em on the right, because they love them some father figures, and a Pharoah is the Mother Of All Dads...

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