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Dont know why people are obsessed with Fox News or other MSM.
If you look at the numbers, only a minuscule % of the US population even watches the top 3 news channels: Fox, CNN and MSNBC.
The top show on Fox News (O’Reilly Factor) averages about 2.4M viewers.
Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN primetime gets about 500K viewers; and
Rachael Maddow on primetime MSNBC gets 800K viewers.
Overall, the number of people watching news shows is dropping every year. The reason why Fox, CNN, etc even enter the conversation is because outlets like Huffington Post, twitter, etc (short clips) and Jon Stewart type shows keep looping their stories over and over again. When Jon Stewart goes on prime time TV every day and talks about Fox news (why?)... he is basically doing free advertising for an organization that his viewers don't care about or would have never heard about in the first place.
First of all, television is still the main source of news for most people:
And second, I'm not sure what the point of posting this is. It is better to not watch any news at all than to watch Fox (another point made in the article), but obviously we're not talking about people who don't really know or care about news or information, and who probably don't really have any political affiliation.
And I really don't think it's realistic to expect that every single person who watches Fox News on a regular basis is going to be watching it 24/7 so that the viewership of a single program is an accurate reflection of how many people might be watching a different program on the same station at a different time. It's like saying CBS isn't watched by many Americans because only 14 million out of 300 million people watched Thursday Night Football last year. 2.4 million viewers is huge, and The O Reilly Factor is the top-rated news show in the US. The reason Stewart and Huff Post focus on them is because Fox is influential without being informative, which means it's easy to catch them lying.
And even outside of TV, Fox News is still hugely influential on the right and their stories are reposted, shared, and passed on by everyone, and they play a huge part in shaping the perspectives of most of the posters on this board, along with even LESS credible sources of information like Breibart or americanthinker.com.
-Conservatives distrust most news sources (are more likely to focus on only a few)
-The overwhelming majority of Conservatives prefer Fox News, whereas Liberals prefer CNN and a slightly lower percentage prefer NPR.
-The Fox News audience was found to be overall less informed on issues than people who just guessed the answers to questions. NPR audiences were the best informed.
I'm going to guess that you're a conservative, which is why you didn't even bother to read the article and dismissed it purely because it tells you something that you don't want to hear.
There is another PEW study that shows Journalist overwhelmingly identify themselves as liberal. It should come as no surprise the Conservative audience turns to Fox.
-Conservatives distrust most news sources (are more likely to focus on only a few)
-The overwhelming majority of Conservatives prefer Fox News, whereas Liberals prefer CNN and a slightly lower percentage prefer NPR.
-The Fox News audience was found to be overall less informed on issues than people who just guessed the answers to questions. NPR audiences were the best informed.
Its Clear how this story is slanted and again when the left controls the News Papers and most of the network new. On should consider way they do not watch your typical outlets. Most of these CNN people of the world do not cover the news. They are too busy providing cover for Obama.
However the it is a New Conservative News Net work call One American News and I find myself flipping back and forth between FBN, Fox and OAN,
Now if MSBC tried to be more objective I may consider. But that will never happen.
So what we are talking about Liberals and Progressive stay to their trusted Net Works. In the end it is up to he viewer to check the stories and make their own conclusion.
and The O Reilly Factor is the top-rated news show in the US.
Oreilly is not a news show, it's a political commentary show just like every show on MSNBC. Fox also has dedicated news shows like CNN. Understand the difference.
I read the article and the linked articles by other far left authors (ahem Ezra Klein). They tried to extrapolate the Pew Research to say something it DIDN'T SAY. The Pew Research was about polarization only. It was Salon (e.g. propagandists) that tried to make the leap of polarization is all Fox News fault. Poorly done. Poorly written. And you fell for it. Explain to me again - who prefers propaganda to reality again?
The author took the results of multiple studies and used them to potentially explain why the polarization exists... where are you getting the impression that anyone is saying anything other than that? I didn't hear anyone complaining about the other thread on here that links to Salon, mostly because it involves a self-professed liberal saying 'We are losers'. And somehow posting links to left-wing sites is bad, but sites like Breitbart, Americanthinker and globalwarmingisascam.blogspot.wordpress.advertiseh erenow.com prove once and for all that liberals are stupid and conservatives are right?
And don't think that I haven't noticed that you haven't actually addressed any of the points made. You just called it poorly written and poorly done without saying why you think so. This is why your opinion is much weaker than the opinion expressed in the article.
The author took the results of multiple studies and used them to potentially explain why the polarization exists... where are you getting the impression that anyone is saying anything other than that? I didn't hear anyone complaining about the other thread on here that links to Salon, mostly because it involves a self-professed liberal saying 'We are losers'. And somehow posting links to left-wing sites is bad, but sites like Breitbart, Americanthinker and globalwarmingisascam.blogspot.wordpress.advertiseh erenow.com prove once and for all that liberals are stupid and conservatives are right?
LOL..... if you are going to complain about bias just a heads up.... referencing Salon is probably not a good way to start out.
-Conservatives distrust most news sources (are more likely to focus on only a few)
-The overwhelming majority of Conservatives prefer Fox News, whereas Liberals prefer CNN and a slightly lower percentage prefer NPR.
-The Fox News audience was found to be overall less informed on issues than people who just guessed the answers to questions. NPR audiences were the best informed.
This is hilarious. CNN and NPR are just as full of propaganda as Fox. People should distrust the mainstream media. Determining who is "best informed" may just be a matter of determining who's version of propaganda is the "correct" version.
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