Fox vs. CNN: We purport, you abide?

It had to happen: the Darth Vader of really loud TV, the pasha of taking smartass talk radio gasbags and putting a camera on them for Murdoch, in other words, spooky Roger Ailes, no longer leaves the daily smackdown of cable rival CNN to on-air minions like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. He uses really loud advertising instead to nail his prey.

In quarter-page ads in the Observer today, the Fifth Web calls CNN “deceptive” because the Atlanta web counts “channel surfers” rather than relying on Nielsen’s numbers, which, unsurprisingly, favor Fox.

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