[lotsofpulp]

They are back to back sentences. Pretty bad attempt at obfuscating. The first sentence claims data “across” all channels, and the following sentence breaks it down.

[starkd]

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

[bee_rider]

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

[spread_love]

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

[pcorsaro]

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.

[spread_love]

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

It's specifically not "across the board."

[ohiovr]

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!

[rootusrootus]

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.

[johncearls]

I think you mean bias, not conspiracy.

[spread_love]

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

[lotsofpulp]

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.

[DiggyJohnson]

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.”

[bee_rider]

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

[DiggyJohnson]

N.b. indeed, cheers

[lotsofpulp]

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!

[carbadtraingood]

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

[lotsofpulp]

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”.