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But they included Foxnews in the first sentence where they claimed it was down "across the board".

Note that "across the board" is not actually a quote here (despite being in quotes).

No, they said it is down "on average." That is true, and immediately clarified in the following sentence.

The paragraph starts by saying viewership is down across the the three major news networks. That’s not exactly across the board, but means the same thing.

Cable viewership across the three major cable news networks is, on average, down 19%.

It's specifically not "across the board."

If Foxnews and Skynews were down 54% and 33% and CNN was up 19% how would they write it? Still on average? Or those mean right wing news outlets are doing terrible, but the good Left wing CNN is taking up the lead!

That's digging really hard to find a conspiracy. They didn't mince words, in two sentences they gave the full details. All in the same font, same paragraph.

I think you mean bias, not conspiracy.

They listed the top 3 cable networks. If Skynews was one of those, presumably it would be included...

Is that not what across the board means? There are 3 news channels, all of them have to be added together for an across the board measurement.

Not at all - in my opinion.

“Across the board” means something closer “true in every case”. Though as I type this, I realize some people my think of it as “in total.”

Note that "across the board" does not actually appear in the article.

N.b. indeed, cheers

You are right, that is what across the board means. I was mixing up what the person who replied to me wrote with what I wrote. Oops!

"Across the board" means "in every instance" not "in aggregate", at least in my experience.

Yes, that is correct. I was misremembering what I read. It was

“across the three major cable news networks”

Which I paraphrased as

“Across all the channels”

Which the person replying to me changed to

“Across the board”.

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