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| 2004/12/21 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:35377 Activity:low |
12/21 News coverage polls from pollingpoint:
http://www.pollingpoint.com/results_111804.html
Computer programmers get some deal of respect from people:
http://www.pollingpoint.com/results_111004.html
\_ The hell is with this sudden respect for farmers? Is this some
strange retro thing?
\_ same people who voted for George W. Bush. 51% of them. Go figure
\_ What the hell is this sentence fragment? |
| www.pollingpoint.com/results_111804.html What we do PollingPoint conducts surveys over the Internet about public affairs and other topics of general interest. The information you provide helps writ e laws, frame news stories, plan campaigns, and analyze social questions . Invite a friend Know others who might want to weigh in on the latest national issues? Giv e them a chance to speak their mind by sending them a PollingPoint surve y invitation. Polimetrix, a non-partisan polling organiz ation located in Palo Alto, California. The company has a talented staff of specialists in survey research, political science, applied statistic s, and Internet technology. Youve formed some clear opinions about news networks and their respective anchors he res what youve told us about the good, the bad and the just plain entert aining. When asked what news network you dislike the most, your answers seemed to split among party lines. Perhaps explained by the falsified documents s candal during the presidential election, Republicans particularly dislik e CBS. Among television news sources, over six in ten Republicans said C BS did the worst job in covering the news. Democrats felt most strongly about FOX news - 85 percent said FOX did the worst job covering the news among major networks. As quickly as Democrats are turning off FOX News, Republicans around the country are turning it on. Nine in ten Republicans say FOX News offers t he best news coverage among television networks. Democrats divide their loyalty among PBS and CNN, with nearly 70 percent naming one of the two as the best news source. Democrats and Republicans at least seem to share a sense of humor. Across the board, a majority of you find Jon Stewart to be the most entertaini ng news anchor. Five out of ten conservatives find him entertaining, as do nine out of ten liberals. Nearly as many liberals find Al Franken ent ertaining, but conservatives certainly dont fewer than one in five finds Franken to be an entertaining source of news. Conservatives find Rush Limbaugh more entertaining than Bill OReilly, but liberals are much less enamored with Limbaugh than OReilly. As for the more traditional newsmen, Chris Matthews and Tim Russert lead the way wi th Russert found to be entertaining by nearly half of all respondents, n o matter their ideology. Liberals, Moderates, and Conservatives have very dissimilar taste for new smen. Liberals like the network anchors with nearly seven out of ten say ing each was an excellent or good news anchor. More than the network anc hors, though, liberal respondents love Jon Stewart who has 87 percent ra ting him as excellent or good. Conservatives take to FOX news personalities Brit Hume and Bill OReilly, each of whom was rated as excellent or good by over 80 percent of conser vatives. With Meet the Presss Ti m Russert, who receives favorable marks from all political persuasions. |
| www.pollingpoint.com/results_111004.html What we do PollingPoint conducts surveys over the Internet about public affairs and other topics of general interest. The information you provide helps writ e laws, frame news stories, plan campaigns, and analyze social questions . Invite a friend Know others who might want to weigh in on the latest national issues? Giv e them a chance to speak their mind by sending them a PollingPoint surve y invitation. Polimetrix, a non-partisan polling organiz ation located in Palo Alto, California. The company has a talented staff of specialists in survey research, political science, applied statistic s, and Internet technology. Large majorities hold a "great deal" of respect (and almost no one report s having "little" respect) for nurses, firefighters, farmers, members of the military, and scientists. Teachers, police officers, shop owners, a nd doctors are not far behind. At the other end of the spectrum, no more than 10 percent of the sample r eported having a great deal of respect for union leaders, lawyers, journ alists, professional athletes, and politicians. And in that group, only lawyers escaped having a majority report that they hold little respect f or the profession. The biggest surprise is the low esteem for pro athlet es - although they command adoration among many sports fans, their popul arity with the broader public seems to be pretty dismal. Politicians, li kewise, achieve individual fame, but suffer from a woeful reputation as a group. Opinions on pay are quite similar, though not identical, to opinions on w ho deserves respect. It is perhaps not surprising that there is almost u nanimity that military personnel are paid too little given how many memb ers of the armed forces are presently serving abroad in dangerous combat zones. Most of the other professions for which respondents hold great r espect also show up on the list of the underpaid. By contrast, the overpaid, in our respondents' eyes, include most of the professions which command little respect. News stories about staggeringl y high salaries for professional athletes and corporate CEOs doubtless p lay a role in the virtually unanimous view that both groups are paid too much. Politicians, meanwhile, are widely thought to be over-paid even t hough their salaries are not nearly as high. Results are based on online interviews with 17,000 US adults, aged 18 o r older, conducted from Aug. |