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Originally Posted by Gawron View Post
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"Despite the stupid stereotypes that seem to be based on nothing at all, this post doesn't address the fact that NPR listeners ARE better informed than any TV news viewers."

Did the poll inculde or address the fact that many who listen to NPR could also watch Fox News? Or ABC, CNN, CBS?
You may want to rethink that.
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Why?

I also found this in Grizzly's link:

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"Despite the stupid stereotypes that seem to be based on nothing at all, this post doesn't address the fact that NPR listeners ARE better informed than any TV news viewers."

"While majorities in most news audiences knew that the Democrats have a majority in the House, regular viewers of Hannity & Colmes (84%), and listeners of Rush Limbaugh's radio program (83%) scored best on this question. Large proportions of regular Hannity & Colmes viewers (73%) and Limbaugh listeners (71%) also identified Rice as the secretary of state; regular NPR listeners (72%) and readers of The New Yorker and other elite magazines (71%) also did well on this question."

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Hannity and Colmes was a Fox News program. And those stupid brain-dead lemming Rush Limbaugh listeners scored well. Imagine that.

Oh, this was interesting as well:

"And fewer than half of regular viewers (44%) of the BBC correctly identified Gordon Brown as the British prime minister."

What's up with that?
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Old 20th October 2009, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Gawron View Post
"While majorities in most news audiences knew that the Democrats have a majority in the House, regular viewers of Hannity & Colmes (84%), and listeners of Rush Limbaugh's radio program (83%) scored best on this question.
Well I would hope so with all the whining they do about it.
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I dont watch or listen to any of those shows and I still know all those answers just by reading. I believe this is a false way to understand who is more informed by the show they watch. One show could always say "Secretary of State Condi Rice", while a different show may just say "Secretary Condi Rice". a third may just say "Condi Rice". The point is repetition and titles.
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Of course, this is not the first time NPR/PBS viewers have beaten the viewers/listeners of corporate media

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Ir...a_Oct03_pr.pdf
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Nobody likes to hear liberal propaganda 24/7. People get the administration's talking points daily on every liberal-biased news station.
You either A) haven't listened to NPR because its definitely not liberal (or conservative or B) have listened to it, but are so radical in your beliefs that you find it to be liberal. Not sure which one, but either way, NPR is definitely not liberal.

Furthermore, the base of the democratic party are generally non-working, sit-on-their-butt types who are just looking for the next government hand-out. They don't care what the administration does as long as they "get theirs". The base of the democratic party are the working poor or those on welfare.
This is quite an offensive generalization that shows you're beyond wholly ignorant on certain things.
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Ratings notwithstanding, the actual revenues of all talk shows has been dropping over the last 2 years--30-40 per cent, according to this article. It doesn't mention specific programs, just the industry in general. Some of it may be that the recession is causing advertisers to cut back. But the article notes that the dialog is likely to get angrier as shows compete for shrinking ad revenue.

I don't like any talk radio. It's tiring and not entertaining in the least.
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I tend to agrew with Jen.
The majority of democrats are those who usually are on welfare or looking for hand outs of some sort.
Most are sufficently content watching entertainment than politicians, and so the majority that do follow politicians BY MEANS OF THAT STATION in all probablilty means that a lower number of ppl did the polls - which means of the few who do them, the overall number of those with the right answers will be higher.

NOW - if you added in the couch potatoes - who probably do not either know the channel existed or didnt care and asked them the same questions - i am certain the overall average would be equal or less than FOX news.

Demographics and the percentage of those taking the polls are of substantial consideration.

I am absolutely certain the polls were divided solely on THOSE who actually took the polls vs those of a wider range which lower the percentage.

For instance if 100 ppl polled for NPR and 44 got it right, but 30,000 polled for Fox, and 19% or 5700 then if 30,000 polled for NPR and only 5700 got it right or less, then it would be equal.

But let's take for instance - who sponsoered the poll?
Was it online?
Or was an actual in person poll?
Online polls can be done for one group - and then change the answers if choosing to poll for the next group to ensure lowering the average. Ya know what i mean?


If it was in person and all numbers were tallied as an exact person for person, say, the numbers of ppl who took the entire poll...then i concede that this may have been on the up and up.

However; never heard of this station, and i know of no one who has.

So i think, if the average person doesn't know this station, the pollers were unequal in number and therefore slanted....which makes the #'s seem higher than actuality.

Nevertheless; whoever they are [were], they are going out of business. Ergo, the polled participants could not have been as high as Fox or the others - which makes their average seem higher.

Faux security to suggest they are more in tune with today's politics.

Just saying....
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How many polled from NPR compared to CBS, or ABC or Fox?

That's the overall question i have.
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Originally Posted by WarriorAngel View Post
I tend to agrew with Jen.
The majority of democrats are those who usually are on welfare or looking for hand outs of some sort.
Most are sufficently content watching entertainment than politicians, and so the majority that do follow politicians BY MEANS OF THAT STATION in all probablilty means that a lower number of ppl did the polls - which means of the few who do them, the overall number of those with the right answers will be higher.

NOW - if you added in the couch potatoes - who probably do not either know the channel existed or didnt care and asked them the same questions - i am certain the overall average would be equal or less than FOX news.

Demographics and the percentage of those taking the polls are of substantial consideration.

I am absolutely certain the polls were divided solely on THOSE who actually took the polls vs those of a wider range which lower the percentage.

For instance if 100 ppl polled for NPR and 44 got it right, but 30,000 polled for Fox, and 19% or 5700 then if 30,000 polled for NPR and only 5700 got it right or less, then it would be equal.

But let's take for instance - who sponsoered the poll?
Was it online?
Or was an actual in person poll?
Online polls can be done for one group - and then change the answers if choosing to poll for the next group to ensure lowering the average. Ya know what i mean?


If it was in person and all numbers were tallied as an exact person for person, say, the numbers of ppl who took the entire poll...then i concede that this may have been on the up and up.

However; never heard of this station, and i know of no one who has.

So i think, if the average person doesn't know this station, the pollers were unequal in number and therefore slanted....which makes the #'s seem higher than actuality.

Nevertheless; whoever they are [were], they are going out of business. Ergo, the polled participants could not have been as high as Fox or the others - which makes their average seem higher.

Faux security to suggest they are more in tune with today's politics.

Just saying....
LOL, sounds like you're making it as you go.
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