An interesting poll from Daily Kos/Research 2000 asks Americans which of the three main cable news channels they watch. Some hypotheses are confirmed right away: Republicans mostly watch Fox (25 percent of them daily), Democrats mostly watch MSNBC (14 percent of them daily), and independents, who don’t particularly watch anything, mostly gravitate towards CNN. The biggest swing region in the poll? The South. In Southern states, 46 percent of viewers say that Fox News is ‘extremely reliable or ‘reliable. Only 6 percent of them say that of MSNBC, compared to 26 percent who say it of CNN, a huge shift from the days when CNN was derided as the ‘Communist/Clinton News Network. And non-white viewers really don’t like Fox. Only 5 percent of African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics, and 8 percent of other minorities consider the network reliable, while a majority of every one of those groups trusts CNN and sizable pluralities trust MSNBC.
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Poll: Whites, Southerners, Republicans Trust Fox News
Author: DAVID WEIGEL
Source: The Washington Independent
Publication Date: 8/17/2009 10:15
Link: Poll: Whites, Southerners, Republicans Trust Fox News
Source: The Washington Independent
Publication Date: 8/17/2009 10:15
Link: Poll: Whites, Southerners, Republicans Trust Fox News
Stephan: It is very clear that Fox News is essentially a propaganda operation, which can make no claim to being a genuine journalism effort. The correlation between specific misinformation and being a member of the Fox News audience is too strong to deny.
This research explains why the public conversation on this subject seems to absurd and surreal. This is not a discussion because the Fox News audience operates from both a different set of assumptions -- to be expected and normal for a democracy -- and a different set of facts. And one set of 'facts' are actually sensoids.
To see actual data go to: http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2009/8/13/US/346
To see the actual data on the correlation between Fox News and grotesque misinformation concerning healthcare
http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2009/8/6/US/331