Young Turks: Fox News Viewers Vs Daily Show Viewers: Poll

[CherylK]

Run time: 04:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xilvv1kPAjc   Posted on YouTube: November 24, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 38494   Posted on DU: November 25, 2011 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1701

 
Are Fox News viewers misinformed, uninformed or both? A new poll compares viewers of Fox, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NPR and MSNBC. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

Source: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/

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[Johnny2X2X]

1. Nice

Been using this poll in discussions online since it came out. This, coupled with the other polls that say the same thing about FOX viewers is a slam dunk although they simply state the obvious. The Right Wing official response has been to spread falsehoods about the statistical methods used for the poll. After all, statistics can be a bit tedious even for someone like me who has taken several stats classes.

Honestly, most reasonable people would start to ask some questions of their primary news source if a poll like this came out. Say for instance if a poll came out and said my local newspaper was making its readers uninformed there would be big changes demanded at that newspaper. Why don't FOX viewers demand more from FOX? Are they that brainwashed?

[lob1]

2. Jon Stewart is the new Walter Cronkite.

The world has changed.

[JDPriestly]

3. People who have the language skills and intellectual capacity

to understand and appreciate Jon Stewart are more likely to understand and remember what they have heard.

I have the theory that the people who like Fox have deficient language skills and don't like to question things very much.

As for those who listen to right-wing radio, the repetitiveness of the radio hosts insures that even the dullest minds retain some information.

The Jon Stewart audience would be bored to tears with right-wing radio. Right-wing radio hosts beat the ears of their listeners with a barrage of same, same, same nasty rhetoric. I always feel like I'm being assaulted when I have to listen to that.

NPR has a very quiet sort of tone. That promotes memory.

If you get into that sort of quiet state of mind before you study or memorize something, you will remember it better.