28% can't identify Fox News as conservative

[steven johnson]

Jon Stewart did a show pointing out how liberal Fox News had become. It turns out that 14% of people identify Fox as Liberal. Save me from the loonies.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-19-2009/fox-news--the-new-liberals

You might remember that when I wrote about Obama and Fox News, I made the point that as a very simple matter, most average Americans might not even know that Fox is a conservative network, so what's the harm in telling them?
 
Well, as is sometimes the case, I was right. A Pew poll has come out showing that Americans see Fox as the most ideological network, but the numbers aren't what one would have expected. It finds that 47% of respondents see Fox as conservative, 14% say it's liberal, and 24% say neither. Most of the others were seen as liberal or neither by pluralities in the 30's and as conservative by numbers in the teens.
 
My point is proven. More than half the country cannot or does not identify Fox as conservative. Of course half the country thinks space aliens walk among us and all that, but it just goes to show you: don't assume a majority of the public has working knowledge of basic facts about politics and journalism. Sports or Lindsay Lohan, maybe, but not politics or journalism.


I bet they're an interesting 14%

[JuniperLea]

1. Bless their little hearts...

We should all look out for 14% of us... clearly 14% don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain, or not to play on the freeway. If you see any 14%ers, be kind... help them out... they're so confused.

[Speck Tater]

2. When a comentator's bias matches my own bias, I won't notice that he is biased.

It's human nature. Those 28% probably have personal biases that match Fox biases so that they see both Fox and themselves as unbiased.

[old mark]

3. ...and 20% or therabouts identify themselves as Republicans...

The creme de la creme of the stupid.

mark

[emulatorloo]

4. thanks for finding this gem = K&R n/t