Study: Sanders supporters are least likely to watch cable news

[OZi]

A new study on the media habits of voters found that Bernie Sanders supporters are some of the least likely among candidates' supporters to watch cable TV in general, and cable news in particular.

About 85 percent of those who identified at Sanders supporters in the Katz Media/Nielsen Scarborough Research Panel study said they watched cable TV in general (both entertainment and news channels), compared with 87 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters. For Marco Rubio, 92 percent of his supporters cited cable television — the highest among decided voters — whereas 89 percent of Donald Trump supporters used cable. Only 32 percent of Sanders supporters said they watch any of the cable news channels. Rubio supporters were most likely to watch cable news with 59 percent saying they do so.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/03/study-sanders-supporters-are-least-likely-to-watch-cable-220172#ixzz41rXK82cv

Not sure if this has been posted here or not. I just found it and thought I would share.

[thereismore]

1. I could have told you that!

[PatrickforO]

2. Under the radar. I've been saying the establishment is in for a surprise. And if Bernie's ground

game to GOTV is anything like as effective as it seemed to be in Colorado, he will end up winning this thing.

[dana_b]

3. I gave up on cable news after the last Presidential election

it just left such a bad taste in my mouth. Now I'm so glad that I did if for no other reason than my blood pressure.

[Donkees]

4. I've never watched cable news :)

[OZi]

9. I haven't had cable for like 7 years now.

I have a Roku and check out CBS and ABC news on there every once in a while. Anymore, I end up hitting the 'Back' button in under a minute.

[Kalidurga]

5. There is no such thing as news anymore.

If you want to know what's going on in your neighborhood you have to talk to your neighbors. If you want to know whats going on in the rest of your area you talk to coworkers and well people on the street. If you want to know whats going on in your state you are probably SOL unless you are involved in some kind of state organization. National news is only what the PTB wants us to know.

[OZi]

12. "National news is only what the PTB wants us to know."

And how they choose to frame it.

[Kalidurga]

14. Yep the often give the ugly picture a pretty frame.

[Major Hogwash]

31. National news ceased to exist after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Remember back in 1984 when Apple Computers ran that ad for their new Macintosh computer using an Olympic athlete to throw a hammer through the huge tv screen of the character from the movie "1984" telling the audience how to act?

And then in 2007, someone stole that idea --- and they replaced that talking head character from 1984 with Hillary to use as a political ad.
That was the beginning of the end for Hillary's campaign in 2008, right then and there!!

I don't know who did that ad.
But, it generated more interest in the Democratic primaries a whole 6 months before the first primary than I had ever seen before.

This time, this year, they tried to crown Hillary 6 months before the first primary!!!!!

[Kalidurga]

33. I wish I had more than a vague recollection of that 1984 ad.

And the 2007 ad wish that was running because that is exactly how I feel.

[TheProgressive]

6. Our TV news is pure oligarchy propaganda...

I do not watch CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, or CBS news at all...

[OZi]

10. Yep. They serve their masters...

not the public.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Most of that stuff is actually commentary and not news and pro commentary is boring and redundant

when I can see all the opinions in the world, real and affected, on DU each day.

[Trajan]

8. Makes perfect sense ...

We refuse to be spoon fed party propaganda ...

And, after this primary season, it should be obvious to everybody - news is manipulated to create false scenarios for the purpose of political deception ...

This election cycle is the WORST most blatant news rigging I have ever seen ...

[OZi]

11. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

It's never been as blatantly obvious as it is to me now.

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Speaking for myself, I have a few good cable resources...

Al Jazeera America (but THAT's being canabalized in a month)

BBC (weekend round table discussions of international affairs are usually good)

I don't know WHAT I'll do after Al Jazeera's gone.

I READ ONLINE MOSTLY, whilst checking in with other shows such as Democracy Now! (also a cable show, but not within my FiOs choices, RT and other progressive shows.

Reading:
The Guardian
The Intercept
Asia Times Online

I think that's a hell of a lot better than MSfuckingNBC, CNN, and the networks are UNWATCHABLE!

[OZi]

16. Sucks about Al Jazeera America.

I have FreeSpeechTV on the Roku. It has videos of The Thom Hartmann Program and Democracy Now!

I watch The Big Picture on Youtube. I'll have to see if I can find videos of these BBC round tables.

[MrMickeysMom]

34. It's called Dateline London...

It's actually on regular BBC cable 9:30 AM Eastern on Saturdays, Ozi.

[GreatGazoo]

15. This is probably the real factor separating young and old voters in each of the

demographics that the MSM is so obsessed with (race and gender).

And it shows both the power of cable news AND its increasing limitations as the two youngest generations shun its yoke.

Analysis of exit polling data:

But here’s where things get interesting. Back in the fall, when the issue of the gender gap between Clinton and Sanders supporters was raised, Matt Bruenig very shrewdly pointed out that the real divide there was as much one of generation as it was one of gender: younger women voters were supporting Sanders, older women voters were supporting Clinton. A lot of the subsequent polling and primary results have confirmed his premonition.

I wonder if we’re not about to see something similar—if not quite as dramatic—with non-white voters. The cross-cutting factor here is not only age—Bruenig has also shown that younger black voters are trending toward Bernie (see the graph at the bottom of this post), and even in South Carolina, Sanders did much better with younger black voters than he did with older black voters—but also region.

http://coreyrobin.com/2016/03/02/super-tuesday-march-theses/

So perhaps the opportunity for the Sanders campaign and supporters is to reach out to the people we each know who get >80% of their information from cable TV. Let them know about the holes in the superdelegate narrative that is being pushed.

This is actually a very tight race now. In some sense it has been Bernie Sanders race all along since Clinton has such high negatives and he doesn't. The era of transparency is dawning and the Clintons just aren't ready for it.

[OZi]

17. Areed.

I worry about net neutrality all the time. Consolidation of power and narrowing the narrative seem to go hand in hand.

[GreatGazoo]

19. I love how this young lady said it at a caucus in Colorado (so did the crowd)

[OZi]

22. Love that video.

I like to think I'm pretty good at typing, but she stood at a podium and said all that to a crowd of people.

So much insight and powerful quotes from someone younger than me. Gives me hope.

[GoneFishin]

29. You worry with good reason. If they want to avoid a repeat of the Bernie phenomenon they will need

to get a choke hold on social media and political discussion boards.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

18. Does The Daily Show count?

It IS the closest thing to news on TV, after all. I stopped watching cable news after they booted KO

[OZi]

20. I always felt like the point of The Daily Show

was to point out ways the media was failing people. People mistake it for making fun of politicians.

"These people are running our country. This is important to everybody. We're a comedy show and even we see a story here. You guys in the media need to step up your game;" Is how I would summarize it.

[Fawke Em]

21. That's why we're smarter!

Seriously, we tend to get our news from a variety of online sources, research the bias of the author and the media outlet, research the info in the story and then determine whether it's factual.

[OZi]

23. But it's so much easier to just trust the TV.

That guy on the TV with perfect hair and his shoulders squared a certain way wouldn't be lying to me would he? It's only the commercials that are trying to sell me stuff isn't?

[GoneFishin]

30. Those nice people wear such nice suits and dresses. It's obvious that they are totally honest. nt

[Paulie]

24. Our house is one TV with appleTV, Netflix and phones/iPads

We stream movies and a few tv shows, YouTube and twitch. Been this way for about 9 years.

[OZi]

27. I tend to watch twitch in a browser.

I have it on Roku too though. Plus Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, TYT and some weather channels. I also have a channel called The Bat Player that lets me steam radio if I can find their stream info.

I just got The Martian and disc 2 of Wayward Pines in the mail.

[olddots]

25. NPR lost it's way long ago

The trouble with most media is that it can only survive by suplying controversy . Pacifica Radio has been in a constant state of turmoil for years . AIR America was destined to fail and died sadly , what do we do ?

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. Damn right. That's why we all know what's going on in this country and the world.

Corrupt corporate owned MSM is propaganda TeeVee and completely useless to anyone with a brain and the ability to think for themselves.

Internet sources are much, much more accurate.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[winter is coming]

28. Oh, I watch cable news.

Believing it's another story.

[MNBrewer]

32. I'm one

[mike_c]

35. interesting-- I ditched television more than twenty years ago...

...and am a Senator Sanders supporter.