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-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.
Fox News is one of the main factors, possibly the main factor, driving political polarization in this country. Huge chunks of this country listen mostly or solely to a relentless stream of misinformation coming from Fox News, coupled with warnings, implied or even baldly stated, to avoid listening to other, more factually accurate news sources. Unsurprisingly, then, more people are becoming conservatives and people who were already conservative are becoming more hardline about it. If you have any Fox viewers in your family, you probably already suspected this, but now Pew has given us the cold, hard facts to confirm your suspicions.
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.
-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.
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.
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.
This was one of the points made by the author!
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?
-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 comes from Salon...D'ya really want to stand on their front porch and point at ''Conservative propaganda"?
Have you ever noticed how FOX tells it as it is while your liberal outlets smooth it over so they can shove BS down your throat or shove it up your a$$ so you swallow it all hook, line and sinker? If you don't comply they will blame ''conservatives'' for your weakness.
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?
That is going to leave a mark. Excellent post.
I have to laugh at liberals claiming ANYONE prefers propaganda more than them.
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Know what's missing from it? The propaganda that Salon inserted trying to say it was Fox News that caused the polarization. In fact, there's no mention whatsoever about media sources. Wow, this was an epic thread fail.
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