TV Viewing, Through the Lens of Politics

[UpInArms]

Source: New York Times

Viewers of the Fox News Channel were significantly more likely than the general population to call themselves Republicans, according to data released last week by Scarborough Research, the consumer research firm.

The Speed Channel, a cable channel that features car and motorcycle racing, had viewers who were 22 percent more likely than the average adult to self-identify as Republicans, the study found. Viewers of Country Music Television were 20 percent more likely to do so, and viewers of the Golf Channel were 31 percent more likely to have said they were Republicans.

Democrats were 78 percent more likely than the general population to have watched the Black Entertainment Network’s cable channel, and 29 percent more likely to have watched SoapNet, a channel for fans of soap operas.

The numbers, which were weighted for geography, age, education, race and household size, reflect the percentage of people who had watched a given channel during the last week and described themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They were gathered through a random telephone survey followed by a mail-in booklet, and incorporated answers from about 186,000 people.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/business/media/14drill.html?ex=1336795200&en=d7edffa86d23614b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[Lasher]

1. And people who watch Faux Noise are dumb as rocks

I saw a survey here about a week ago that confirmed this.

[fasttense]

2. Just goes to show you that when dumb people watch dumbed

down fake news, they get dumber.

[Jawja]

4. And they do this deliberately,

the viewers, because they don't want to hear anything else other than their viewpoint. They watch FOX to confirm their worldview because they are not really searching for balance and they don't want to hear any alternative points of view because they are not open to analysis.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Yes, and in doing so, they remain willfully ignorant.

It's hard to show the truth to those who don't want to see it.

[Demonaut]

3. and someone at faux will spin this as 72 percent of viewers are dems

and independent....will it be brit or hannity or?

[Igel]

6. 60%, actually.

And it's not "spin". A majority of Fox viewers are voters that dems could properly attract. Not a popular belief, to be sure, and therefore necessarily denied.