we are divided by loosely spoken words Allen. And by a media that feeds anger, hate and obsession with the intent to divide.

so many times we argue while agreeing.

They want to call me a liberal /socialist here ~ how did they get such ideas? ~ Because I didn’t agree with “them”. Not liking to pointed out the error of their arguments or erroneous name calling and labeling.

So I’m painted! Funny! Stuff! I get painted too!

An endless supply of painT!

I left out the juicy parts, Of Rupert and his inside friends with the manufacture of digital the counting devices. No need to overstated my point as it’s not necessary in this case. ~ But you say baloney ~ and I say, you don’t want to see how its made~ and so is it with the Nielson rating.

1. 5. Criticism of ratings systems Wadapedia
There is some public critique regarding accuracy and potential bias within Nielsen’s rating system. In June 2006, however, Nielsen announced a plan to revamp its entire methodology to include all types of media viewing in its sample.
Since viewers are aware of being part of the Nielsen sample, it can lead to response bias in recording and viewing habits. Audience counts gathered by the self-reporting diary methodology are sometimes higher than those gathered by the electronic meters which provide less opportunity for response bias. This trend seems to be more common for news programming and popular prime time programming. Also, daytime viewing and late night viewing tend to be under-reported by the diary.[clarification needed]
Another criticism of the measuring system itself is that it fails the most important criteria of a sample: it is not random in the statistical sense of the word. Only a small fraction of the population is selected and only those that actually accept are used as the sample size. There are only 25,000 total American households that participate in the Nielsen daily metered system. [12] The number of U.S. television households as of 2009 is 114,500,000. [13] As a result, the total number of Nielsen homes only amounts to 0.02183% of the total American television households, meaning that 99.97817% of American households have no input at all into what is actually being watched. Compounding matters is the fact that of the sample data that is collected, advertisers will not pay for time shifted (recorded for replay at a different time) programs [14] rendering the ‘raw’ numbers useless. In many local areas, the difference between a rating that keeps a show on the air and one that will cancel it is so small as to be statistically insignificant, and yet the show that just happens to get the higher rating will survive. [15] As the possible choices increase so does the margin of error resulting in the sampling sizes being too small. [16]
In 2004, News Corporation retained the services of public relations firm Glover Park to launch a campaign aimed at delaying Nielsen’s plan to replace its aging household electronic data collection methodology in larger local markets with its newer electronic People Meter system. The advocates in the public relations campaign charged that data derived from the newer People Meter system represented a bias toward underreporting minority viewing, which could lead to a de-facto discrimination in employment against minority actors and writers. Nielsen countered the campaign by revealing its sample composition counts. According to Nielsen Media Research’s sample composition counts, as of November 2004, nationwide, African American Households using People Meters represented 6.7% of the Nielsen sample, compared to 6.0% in the general population. Latino Households represent 5.7% of the Nielsen sample, compared to 5.0% in the general population. By October 2006, News Corp. and Nielsen settled, with Nielsen agreeing to spend an additional $50 million to ensure that minority viewing was not being underreported by the new electronic people meter system. [17]
Another criticism of the Nielsen ratings system is its lack of a system for measuring television audiences in environments outside the home, such as college dormitories, transport terminals, bars, and other public places where television is frequently viewed, often by large numbers of people in a common setting. In 2005, Nielsen announced plans to incorporate viewing by away-from-home college students into its sample. Internet TV viewing is another rapidly growing market for which Nielsen Ratings fail to account for viewer impact. Apple iTunes, atomfilms, YouTube, and some of the networks’ own websites (e.g., ABC.com, CBS.com) provide full-length web-based programming, either subscription-based or ad-supported. Though web sites can already track popularity of a site and the referring page, they can’t track viewer demographics. To both track this and expand their market research offerings, Nielsen purchased NetRatings in 2007. [18]
Furthermore, a new problem has developed primarily with the February sweeps. For the 2001-2002 season, the National Football League moved Super Bowl XXXVI to February, when it was placed in the sweeps period, because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which postponed the NFL schedule a week. Because of that, starting with the 2003-04 season, the NFL moved the Super Bowl into the sweeps period.
Since the move of the Super Bowl into the sweeps period, Sunday nights in the sweeps period in February are almost guaranteed to be a winner for the network holding the big event on each of the four Sundays – the Super Bowl (alternates among NBC, CBS, FOX), Grammy Awards (moved to Sundays since 2003 except during Olympics, CBS), Daytona 500 (finish moved into prime-time in 2007 until it was moved back to the daytime in 2010; FOX), or Academy Awards (moved into the sweeps period in 2004, ABC) and every fourth year, the Winter Olympic Games (last telecast 2010, NBC)[clarification needed]. The later games of the World Series have also been played in November in recent years.
After Nielsen took over the contract for producing data on Irish advertising, agencies said that they were “disastrous” and claimed that the information produced by them is too inaccurate to be trusted by them or their clients. [19]

Criticism of ratings systems (Winkipedia)
There is some public critique regarding accuracy and potential bias within Nielsen’s rating system. In June 2006, however, Nielsen announced a plan to revamp its entire methodology to include all types of media viewing in its sample.
Since viewers are aware of being part of the Nielsen sample, it can lead to response bias in recording and viewing habits. Audience counts gathered by the self-reporting diary methodology are sometimes higher than those gathered by the electronic meters which provide less opportunity for response bias. This trend seems to be more common for news programming and popular prime time programming. Also, daytime viewing and late night viewing tend to be under-reported by the diary.[clarification needed]
Another criticism of the measuring system itself is that it fails the most important criteria of a sample: it is not random in the statistical sense of the word. Only a small fraction of the population is selected and only those that actually accept are used as the sample size. There are only 25,000 total American households that participate in the Nielsen daily metered system.[12] The number of U.S. television households as of 2009 is 114,500,000.[13] As a result, the total number of Nielsen homes only amounts to 0.02183% of the total American television households, meaning that 99.97817% of American households have no input at all into what is actually being watched. Compounding matters is the fact that of the sample data that is collected, advertisers will not pay for time shifted (recorded for replay at a different time) programs [14] rendering the ‘raw’ numbers useless. In many local areas, the difference between a rating that keeps a show on the air and one that will cancel it is so small as to be statistically insignificant, and yet the show that just happens to get the higher rating will survive.[15] As the possible choices increase so does the margin of error resulting in the sampling sizes being too small.

Bottom Line, the system is great flawed while you attempt to use it as some kind of a “security blanket”, boost of some kind a majority that’s not even close to being factual. and Mr. Rupert has been caught sniffing around the hen house. They don’t call it “Fox” for nothing!

get real! Would you want to buy cigarettes labels “Sky Dancers”? People do!

Just keep in mind that censorship is their right. They own that press. Best for you to “vote with your feet” as you did and come here.

Would it be too much to ask that you at least learn to spell democrats and Lieberman before parroting the opinions of Beck, Limbaugh, and others? They count on our ignorance to succeed with their attempts to brainwash us and make us follow them as sheep. The only shepherd I choose to follow is Jesus Christ.

In reply to John Despard I would like to ask you if you are a follower of Jesus Christ as you say then how cnn you be against Conservatives such as Beck and Limbaugh? These men are the only honest talk show hosts who deliver a message of hope among a left wing media that propogates their vile and vicious lies. Are you asking us to support Obama and his socilaist agenda rather than the conservatveideals? Something does not add up.

Oh yes! I know you. You’re one of the depraved electorate willing to have an Obama for president. You think under the Dems in the next generation or two that the world will become a kind of gigantic Disneyland in which the human race will find perpetual happiness playing with an endless assortment of ever more ingenious mechanical toys. Maybe they can even control the forces of nature!

Are you so blind that you do not see the assault of the left and the Democratic Party on Christianity. It is more than obvious. It is time for you to wake up John.

I think the Christians are in as much jeopardy as the Jews. And I know for sure as the Bible tells of it; if Israel falls, the US and Britain will fall together, almost immediately.

AMEN

There is always a way. Politicians and bureaucrats are not smart enough to plug all the loopholes. Even very smart people that build the electronic gadgets miss the loopholes. That is what hacking is all about. Imagine a politician trying to hack into a computer.

James,
They don’t need to open your mail, they have the ability to listen to every word spoken in your home from Space, or look at what your doing by way live photo feed.
Some of you may recall I posted a statment where I said Pandoras Box has been opened about 30 years ago. What do you really think has been going on while the BOOM was working?

Thats why last year your homes were all GPS ed right to your door. Thats way they can main line your when they want.
If you have a cell phone its GPS tracked if you have a car its GPS tracked, if you have a drivers licence or Passport your GPS tracked.
Now are you all starting to see the picture?

The next step of this modern method of coding is not unlike what the Nazi’s did with the inmates and Jews with the numbering codes.
If you read the HCR bill it clearly states that all of us will be chipped, have you ever thought about what may be in that chip?
Or why its really needed?

Can you really say with a straight face thats really far out there?

That chip could have a self destruct built in, as in YOU will be self destructing.

People use some out of the box thinking now and then. So wake up and start thinking or you will be a slave. The door is closing very fast now so you have to wake up as many as you can and FAST.

Really VET your Congress and Senate people who you want to vote for as a progressive can look just like YOU do.

TIME, I’m so glad that there are others out there, like you, who aren’t afraid to delve into seeing what is really being planned, and implemented daily, by the sinister global elites.

The things that everyone laughed at before are now emerging as reality. “Conspiracy theories” are proving true.

To make wise choices we have to know just what we are up against. We must know who the enemy is, and what it is about.

And most of all, we need to feel free to speak of it. Most people still don’t want to hear it, like it’s not for polite company. Or, if we don’t speak of it, it isn’t real.

Time to expose everything. Shine the light into the darkness.

60% of all spy satelites are targetted on the US. They take pictures of every part of the US every four seconds. The pictures have enough resolution to be able to read a newspaper laying on the ground. They can be used to detect humans (or whatever) inside buildings. They can be used to read license plates (sideways) or take pictures of people (like Timothy McVey).

They can also be used to identify and follow any criminal – but the government refuses to allow them to be used that way since it would alert everyone to the fact the government spies on you all the time. They did use them to identify and capture McVey and have been used a couple of other times when the feds determine there is a need.

Also on GPS’s – something to look forward to. They want GPS’s installed in all vehicles. The GPS would record your milage and send it by an installed transmitter to government receivers – probably in posts along the highways. At the end of each month you would receive a bill for road tax on the milage for that month. Further, they want to have the GPS list each time you exceed the speed limit and if you ran any stop signs noted on the GPS map. You would get tickets for those. But they wouldn’t ever use them to spy on you!

If you believe that, I have a bridge for sale …

Are you speaking of ‘Shadow Government?’ I saw it too. Eerily revealing and informative. I’d recommend it to anyone.

45caliber–We have been “spied” upon for years. I think maybe since the fifties? I need to look this up again.

Truer words were never spoke my friend, everything you just said is fact! WAKE UP, HELLO HELLO ANYBODY HOME!!!, LET THEM KNOW WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION

I once saw two articles in the same newspaper about China. The first one was on the front page. It was about a news reporter “forgetting” a camera on a park bench in Peiking. It was still there several hours later. He was impressed with the honesty of the Chinese. Several politicians were calling for Americans to learn that type of honesty.

In the same paper in a little item in the middle of the paper where most people never see was another article about “honesty” in China. A man walking down the road picked up two half rotted apples laying in a ditch after they had fallen off a tree and ate them. He had both hands cut off for “theft”.

Now tell me. Do you REALLY want to follow the Chinese line of political action?

Liberman has been to ALL the Bilderburg meetings. He wants a one world government – tyranny. Don’t think for a moment he’s a friend of Americans.