Pew Survey: Only 29% of Republicans Trust FOX News

[stewert]

Take a look at this pew study:

News Audiences Increasingly Politicized
Online News Audience Larger, More Diverse

Some numbers I noticed.

Only 25% of the people watch FOX news.
Only 22% watch CNN.
Only 8% watch the O'Reilly Factor.
Only 6% Llisten to Rush Limbaugh.

The nationwide poll of 3,000 adults, conducted April 19-May 12, 2004, finds that the
audiences for Rush Limbaugh's radio show and Bill O'Reilly's TV program remain overwhelmingly
conservative and Republican.

Despite O'Reilly saying his show has an equal number of Democrat and Repub viewers. Just
more lies from his right-wing ass.

Percent of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh -

Conservative - 77%
Moderate - 16%
Liberal - 7%

Percent of people who watch the O'Reilly Factor -

Conservative - 72%
Moderate - 23%
Liberal - 4%

FOX News Channel -

Conservative - 52%
Moderate - 30%
Liberal - 13%

Whom Do You Trust?

No one, if a new poll by the Pew Research Center is any indication. Howard Kurtz reports
on the poll in this morning's Washington Post, highlighting this surprising finding: While 45
percent of Democrats polled find CNN credible, neither Democrats nor Republicans found Fox
News Channel credible.

The actual numbers aren't very encouraging for either outlet: Democrats favor CNN (45 percent)
over Fox (24 percent) as a credible source of news, while Republicans trust neither, with only 29
percent trusting Fox and 26 percent trusting CNN.

Given those abysmal rankings, the responses from CNN and Fox both bordered on surreal. "We're
obviously pleased," said CNN spokesman Matthew Furman. "Once again we've been voted the most
trusted news organization in America." (Note to Furman: If the Pew survey is any indication, that's
not unlike being named the world's tallest midget.)

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=215

[MallRat]

1. ALL RIGHT, DUers. I wanna know who's responsible for THIS!

Percent of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh -
Conservative - 77%
Moderate - 16%
Liberal - 7%

Percent of people who watch the O'Reilly Factor -
Conservative - 72%
Moderate - 23%
Liberal - 4%

FOX News Channel -
Conservative - 52%
Moderate - 30%
Liberal - 13%

I sincerely hope that this is all in the name of oppo research. :-)

-MR

[kofijoe]

4. I confess...

... I sometimes dabble in all three. Apologies. :hurts:

[hlthe2b]

11. I don't (RW radio), I can't (no cable news), but probably like passing

a train wreck.... As long as people know what they are seeing and don't determine it (the train wreck)is a good thing worth repeating that's fine by me...

[Misunderestimator]

5. Not to worry... there just the same liberals who like to go to trash sites

... like freerepublic to get some sort of rush. Don't understand it myself, but to each his own. :)

[whistle]

8. Not me.......

...I'm liberal, but I sure don't listen to Rush (I proved that during my last Arbitron radio listening diary survey). The three public radio stations, jazz stations, Hispanic music and a local liberal talk show are all I tune into. I listen to Air America through web-streaming.O8)

[yellowcanine]

2. Where is the rating for NPR - one of the pubbies favorite whipping boys?

I suspect that ordinary Republicans trust NPR over Fox News. Just a hunch.

[stewert]

7. NPR........

Percent who listen to NPR:

Conservative - 31%
Moderate - 33%
Liberal - 30%

National Public Radio's audience has shown the most significant shift to the left. Today, three-in-ten
regular NPR listeners describe themselves as liberal up from 20% in 2002. Still, just as many
describe themselves as conservative (31%) or moderate (33%).

The percentage of Americans who listen to radio news has remained relatively stable in recent
years. Four-in-ten say they listened to news on the radio yesterday. This is virtually unchanged
from 2002 (41%) and down only marginally from 2000 (43%).

Talk radio is holding onto its corner of the media market 17% of the public regularly listens to radio
shows that invite listeners to call in to discuss current events, public issues and politics. The
talk radio audience remains a distinct group; it is mostly male, middle-aged, well-educated and
conservative. Among those who regularly listen to talk radio, 41% are Republican and 28% are
Democrats. Furthermore, 45% describe themselves as conservatives, compared with 18% who say
they are liberal.

National Public Radio's audience is holding steady as well: 16% of Americans regularly listen to NPR.
In contrast to the talk radio audience, the NPR audience is fairly young, well-educated and
Democratic. Fully 41% of regular NPR listeners are Democrats, 24% are Republicans.

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=834

P.S. I would guess the very small percentage of liberals watching and listening to O'Reilly and Rush
do it to laugh at what stupid shit they are saying. Clearly they do not watch and listen for news.

[AP]

3. That's why Fox isn't as dangerous as CNN and NPR.

CNN & NPR have more people in the middle in their audience, and they don't wear their biases on their sleeves, but they are biased (in favor of neoliberalism -- which is really dangerous,

In fact you can see how dangerous it is for moderates to be lied to by sources like that in the number even of DU'ers who don't understand what is going on in, for example, Venezuela, or don't understand how development economics works in places like Africa, or didn't understand what was going on in Haiti after listening to NPR's week long series on voodoo just before the coup.

Fox can be as biased as they want in favor of the Republican party and they're not going to be doing much damage: they're preaching to a choir which doesn't trust them anyway.

But when CNN and NPR whore it up for capital and lie about labor and about the value of putting economic, cultural and political power in the hands of people who work for a living, rather than in the hands of large multi-national corporations, then you have a real threat to democracy.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. Yeah, I listen online occasionally. Better than a sitcom!

I just laugh myself silly.

[ItsMyParty]

9. I wonder if this is "propaganda" blowback

And I can't stop laughing. Did Fox and other media who pander for the Republicans think that as they scream "liberal bias" in the news that they have created a public who is looking at all of them in that light?? How many republicans beat that mantra to death and, therefore, assume that Fox (another news network) is also liberal biased and won't watch it?? Sometimes propaganda is a tricky thing.

[AP]

10. I think it's different. Goebbels never understimated the intelligence....

...of German citizens and therefore used incredibly sophisticated propaganda.

Fox underestimates the intelligence of its viewers, so it's propaganda is really unsophisticated. It's so OTT that only the stupidest accept it at face value. The majority of their target audience recognize it for what it is: cheerleading rather than journalism.