glenn beck sorosNew York Times media reporter David Carr
apparently got stuck penning the obligatory Glenn Beck story
this month, and it is now racing around Twitter and the Internet
like wildfire.  Here is the short version: Glenn Beck's contract
with Fox is up at the end of the year and they may be looking to
part ways with him because of his declining ratings.  Let's
start with ratings.  They are down.  Though not down as much in
the month of February as they were in January when they dropped
a whopping 39% from the year before (something I partially
attributed at the time to the nature of that month's alarming
news cycle and the fact it's sometimes it's nice to be told the
world is not ending.)   In Feb his ratings were down 26% in
total viewers from last February -- he bounced back to the
number four spot in cable news -- which as Carr notes can
partially be attributed to the Health Care debate that dominated
in 2010.  (In fact, while Fox remains unquestionably dominant in
cable news, its numbers were do