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| 2008/7/9-11 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:50507 Activity:low |
7/9 Turns out, Fox News is the favorite channel for Dems
FNC (31% Democratic): 491,350 Dem viewers
CNN (45% Democratic): 432,450 Dem viewers
MSNBC (48% Democratic): 328,800 Dem viewers
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5rg7hq
\_ Uh, that just says Fox News is the most popular channel overall.
lrn2statistics please.
\- maybe it's the "you spurned hillary and now i am going to vote
for mccain but you already knew i was a moron for supporting
a pandering liar" crowd tuning in to watch Howard Wolfson, Fox's
latest hack.
\_ I'm a moderate, but my liberal friends accuse me of being a
Republican. They always say that I parrot Fox News and Rush
Limbaugh, but I don't pay attention to either. They do. They
claim they want to see what the other side is doing. These
numbers don't surprise me at all. No wonder Dems have a messed
up idea about Republicans - they get all their info from Faux News.
\_ Who should we be getting our ideas about Republicans from?
Ann Coulter, the best selling conservative author of all time?
Rush Limbaugh, the most popular conservative radio host?
\_ How about Barry Goldwater, Alan Greenspan, GWB (first),
\_ I think the
official
acronym is
GHWB
Arlen Specter, Colin Powell, AHNOLD, Rudy Giuliani, and
the Rockefeller Republicans? Coulter and Limbaugh are
trying to get ratings/sell books and the religious right
is it's own scary faction. I don't judge the Democratic
party by the actions of morons like Michael Moore.
\_ Other possibilities include George Will, Tom Campbell,
and Milton Friedman.
\_ All RINOs.
\_ Right. Any Republican that doesn't meet your
stereotype is a RINO.
\_ It was DeLay and Rove that purged all the
moderates from the Party, not me. Your own
Right Wing invented the term RINO. |
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| preview.tinyurl.com/5rg7hq -> newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-koldys/2008/07/09/setting-record-straight-fnc-actually-dems-preferred-cable-channel right-wing Zionist", etc) the alternate tactic is used: diminish Fox by lying about its influence and reach. The preferred method for doing so is to marginalize the Fox audience. pushing for the famed boycott of Democratic debates on Fox: In our 2004 polling with Media Vote, using Nielsen diaries, we found that Fox News viewers supported George Bush over John Kerry by 88 percent to 7 percent. There are literally thousands of references to this "survey" in the Fox haters echo chamber, an astonishing number considering that as far as we can tell nobody has ever seen it. Every link we looked at eventually traced back to nothing more than Mellman's undocumented characterization in an opinion column. What kind of polling relies on manipulating Nielsen data for its findings? A four-year-old comment from a John Kerry operative is the definitive word on polling. reported that an actual study (not mere fiddling with Nielsen diaries) from MediaMark found otherwise: In fact, according to a study by Mediamark Research, only 38 percent of Fox News viewers self-identified as conservative. In terms of sheer numbers, that means the non-conservative audience for Fox tops CNN's total viewership. Who wants findings from 2007 when you can have Mellman's unsupported claims from 2004? To be fair, we don't have much detail about the MediaMark survey either. Luckily, there is an unimpeachable source that is universally recognized as legitimate. The Project for Excellence in Journalism issues its State of the Media report every year. In connection with the PEW Center they conduct scienctific surveys of news audiences using recognized methodology. Did their 2008 report find that the Fox audience is just a herd of "true believers" who are "overwhelmingly Republican"? Not exactly: The largest share of its audience - 38% -- were Republicans, followed by Democrats (31%) and independents (22%). That 38% figure tracks exactly with the MediaMark study. And at 53%, more Democrats and Independents watch Fox than do Republicans. So according to the PEW survey, how many of these are Democrats? Numbers don't lie: * FNC (31% Democratic): 491,350 Dem viewers * CNN (45% Democratic): 432,450 Dem viewers * MSNBC (48% Democratic): 328,800 Dem viewers Yes, it's true. More Democrats watch Fox News Channel than either CNN or MSNBC. And the Kossacks, blue blogs, and Fox haters who try to tell you otherwise are just plain wrong. athoughtor2 perhaps the left should realize that when there is only 1 channel on TV that actually makes a attempt at showing both sides of the debate, that it will attract republicans to it. or heaven forbid democrates that will actually listen to the other side of the debate. Here's another political math problem I've always wondered about. What is the per capita tax revenue generated by each political party? If "Proposed Law XYZ" costs Republicans twice as much as it costs Democrats, that would completely neutralize the Leftside argument that some people do not pay their fair share. ForeverOnTheRight "Fox viewers are 'a devout congregation of true believers, incapable of critical thought'." So this is what far left liberals think of Fox viewers eh, well this is just arrogant lies. The difference is the principles and world views that guide the critical thinking. nkviking75 A couple of questions on Nielsen diaries: 1) Do they ask political questions when they send their diaries? If anyone out there knows, I'd love to have these questions answered. When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out. |