'It's Fox News viewers vs. everyone else,' new poll concludes

[UpInArms]

Source: Marketwatch

“Propaganda works,” was the provocative conclusion reached by Recode co-founder Kara Swisher, who tweeted out this chart on Tuesday summarizing the findings of a recent NBC News/WSJ poll:



As NBC’s Mark Murray points out, “it’s Fox News viewers vs. everyone else.”

While viewers of all the other major networks mostly agree on the questions asked in the poll, Fox News fans remain outliers.

For example, on Fox, Trump’s approval percentage is a lofty 73%, a full 35 percentage points above his rating among viewers of the network among whose viewers he earns his second highest approval number. And, as you can see, there’s a wide split on whether Russia poses a threat to the integrity of future elections.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-fox-news-viewers-vs-everyone-else-new-poll-concludes-2019-05-07?mod=mw_theo_homepage

[Chin music]

1. If you want to believe, nothing is too big a story.

They want to believe.

[The Genealogist]

2. Half of FAUX viewers then DO NOT believe the report cleared Trump?

Wow...surprised that it is 50/50. They'll have to amp up their BS.

[wryter2000]

3. Heard that on Stephanie Miller this morning

That's pretty surprising. Barr's preemptive strike doesn't seem to have worked. Pretty bad news for Trump. That may hurt his other numbers with Fox viewers as the investigations go on. If he loses them, he'd toast.

[marylandblue]

5. The other half like that he did the crime and got away with it.

[The Genealogist]

6. I'd not be surprised.

They hink he is just the smartest human to ever walk the earth.

[lagomorph777]

7. Bingo. I've heard people (even family, sad to admit) say Trump is an asshole but they support him.

ergo, those people are Despicables.

[DownriverDem]

57. I bet

those folks only care about Roe v Wade. trump is giving them the judges they want. Also I bet anti abortion folks don't know that if Roe v Wade is overturned, abortion rights go back to the states like it was before.

[GWC58]

51. Those would be the same folks that said

Obama acted like a king. 😳

[certainot]

33. because it's not fox that's the problem. they have to pretend to be 'balanced' and all it

takes is an even half assed dissenting opinion to break up and throw a little doubt into the authoritarian certitude needed to sell lies.

this is one more useless poll that helps liberals and democrats to keep ignoring the real problem - 1500 coordinated radio stations in a 20-1 monopoly and the only medium that can sell lies all day without challenge from the other side of the political spectrum.
the only reason bush, palin, trump even got close to the white house.

fox is just the visual icing on the talk radio lie turd pie and as soon as the left figures that out trump and the gop will be done

they wasted their money with this useless study.

[mahina]

46. Yikes. Sinclair and clear channel?

1500 is immense. What can be done about that?

[certainot]

47. artificial intelligence enhanced transcription means rw radio's days are over as soon as

americans want.

no need for a new fairness doctrine

AI assisted transcription will amp up stoprush x 100 by allowing activists to easily list RW radio advertisers with little listening. much easier and effective than boycotting fox, or hoping for supermajorities to pass a new FD with those 1500 radio stations screaming FREE SPEECH!

when the ad industry sees it happening that threat will force it to have to ask advertisers if they actually want to support trump and global warming denial. if americans want to get this shit out of the white house and force republicans to drop him all they have to do is stop ignoring it and reduce kremlin talk radio from 1500 to 200 stations. that will be the most effective offense dems can do.

[DemocracyMouse]

55. THANK YOU Sir Certainot! Brilliant points!

THIS statement should be in a rap song:
"1500 coordinated radio stations in a 20-1 monopoly"

Translated into rap poetry:

1500 radio stations
Lock-step like a league of nations

Belching lies for Bush and Trump
And all their gangsta money thugs.

They bustin' ears across the country,
Usin' what Taft once called a monopoly.

Twistin' truth at 20 to 1:
20 stations for the devil and 1 for my mom.

She so tired of this bullshit media.
Says "honey hit the streets and tell 'em 'I'll be seein' ya.' "

(DU, feel free to edit and record, just throw some credit to DemocracyMouse)

[certainot]

62. fantastic! thanks democracymouse. i'm not musically inclined but

i have a young relative who's getting pretty good so i might.....

[Grasswire2]

48. 40 years of hate AM radio......

...and Richard Mellon Scaife's VRWC.

Targeted for just this moment.

[DemocracyMouse]

56. (See unrecorded rap song about hate radio just above)

[PoliticAverse]

4. Maybe or maybe the people who want to believe those things just watch the network that offers them

as facts.

[yonder]

10. Yes, I was thinking along those lines too.

The survey would have to control for that aspect, right? Maybe it did, maybe it didn't.

[patphil]

32. That's absolutely true

Fox news feeds a craving that already exists.
It's like a restaurant. People only go where they like the food.
So, people who like the Trump brand of shit go where it is served.

Patrick Phillips

[paleotn]

40. America is self sorting.

I'm not sure the divide can ever be bridged. Seriously, how do you reach people who live in an alternate universe?

[PoliticAverse]

41. In the future we can all live in a computerized bubble and never see or hear anything...

that challenges what we want to believe and makes us feel uncomfortable.

[dhol82]

43. But then, how do we vote?

Will there still be a ‘government’ to govern?

[PoliticAverse]

44. We vote for the candidate that tells us exactly what we want to hear...

in their computer generated personalized message.

[dhol82]

45. So essentially, there is no government

There is nothing, only Big Brother.

[PaulRevere08]

61. I fear that it will take a rather large catastrophe

To unite the country.

[genxlib]

8. We have to understand that they don't care

They are perfectly OK with getting help from Russia if it aligns with their interests otherwise.

It is the ultimate in "the ends justifies the means"

They got their judges and their tax cuts. Integrity, character and patriotism are abstract concepts to them compared to the real payoff.

[MarcA]

9. 30% who watch MSNBC approve of trump ?!

Do they think that he is so bad that he is good for Democrats?

[rurallib]

12. I wouldn't assume MSNBC watchers are all Democrats

And not all MSNBC shows are liberal - take Chuck Todd for instance or Mrs. Greenspan.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

13. That is what I thought was the most surprising thing too

Percentage of people watching MSNBC who vote with Trump supporters surprises me - on all of the questions.

[FakeNoose]

16. I think they asked Chuck Todd the same question a couple hundred times

[BigmanPigman]

11. I feel like I am living in the film Network.TV has become The Truman Show

and now no one knows what is real and what isn't and they don't care as long as they are entertained.

[PoliticAverse]

14. In the future we'll all be able to get a custom news feed that never tells us anything

we don't want to hear or believe.

[BigmanPigman]

15. At this point in time I believe it.

[Duppers]

17. Excellent observation and quite true. My neighborhood...

Is 80% Faux-watching retired military who support tRump simply because of that R behind his name. And i hate them.

At least I express what I think to them.

We've had our Obama and other political signs stolen in our yard. Years ago our border collie was poisoned (cost almost $1000 to save her). In the last yr I found a broken bottle top (only the top, no other shattered glass around it) on our concrete driveway. Yes, we're moving but found out our new neighborhood is also full of bigoted rethugians. Damn!!

[BigmanPigman]

20. How awful! Your poor dog!

You have guts to put an Obama sign up knowing that you are surrounded by RW nut jobs. That sucks that your new neighborhood may be just as bad.

My grandmom lived in FL and she always put Dem signs on her yard. Everyone around her was GOP. She partially did it to piss her Repug neighbors off. She was a fighter and was 103 years old so she had been there and done that.

[Duppers]

24. You had an awesome grandmom!

Granddaughter like grandmom!

[BigmanPigman]

27. Thank you.

I was told by my family my entire life that I am like her. I miss her (she died 3 years ago). I am sure she is spinning in her grave with the fucking moron as the POTUS. She HATED the GOP, especially Reagun, Nancy and both Bushes with a passion. You want to hear an old lady swear...she's was the one, and in Italian too.

[luvtheGWN]

34. Always sounds better in Italian!

[BigmanPigman]

42. She also used the appropriate

gestures that accompanied the assorted profanity. If her neighbors didn't understand what she said I am sure they got the point. She swore in English to help them out in case they didn't understand her Italian, she was so thoughtful.

[Grasswire2]

49. mmm mmm Border Collie. My fave. nt

[Duppers]

50. She was the smartest, sweetest,

Most stubborn lovable girl; almost as tall as a standard collie. We miss her.

We have a wonderfully sweet Lab now and adopted a rather aloof one.

[Grasswire2]

53. there's a FB group called Border Collies Rock...

...and the pictures of BCs from all over the world are great to see for someone who has lost their BC. My rescue BC Duffy RIP 3/13/2015.

[Duppers]

65. Thank you!

One day I might reopen my FB acct again.

Truly sorry about your Duffy. My baby's name was Patty (Patches) and I get teary-eyed just thinking about her.

[pangaia]

39. "...and now no one knows what is real..." That is how authoritarian fascists take control.

[djacq]

18. Reside in a town where 52% voted for Trump.

Walked into a Diner for breakfast, Fox News on the only 2 monitors.

[barbtries]

23. i won't eat there.

i'll ask them to change it first. then i will leave without breakfast. then i will tag the place on twitter and fb.

what i won't do is sit there and listen to right wing propaganda and straight up bullshit.

[Duppers]

26. Right on!

[Duppers]

30. That's a given here in the south.

Faux on almost everywhere here in Tidewater Virginia. The area is heavily military and retired military.

[Politicub]

60. It seems to be everywhere in blue Atlanta

Maybe conservatives complain about CNN and a worker changes the channel instead of dealing with an argument. I think liberals just ignore it when the volume is turned off.

[SayItLoud]

19. IMO the % of those NOT worried about Russian interference and

% who approve of tRUMP makes NO sense for Broadcast, CNN and MSNBC.

[mahannah]

21. Polls are a waste of time, money and effort.

[barbtries]

22. brainwashed.

2 of them are my older brother and sister. sigh.

[ck4829]

25. Wow

[SleeplessinSoCal]

28. anybody see the total number of viewers in each category?

Ie:

Broadcast 8 million ?
FOX 4 million ?
CNN 1 million ?
MSNBC 3 million ?


My guess.

[mwooldri]

29. It's simple and has been known for YEARS.

You would be more informed about current affairs by not watching any TV news than watching Fox "News".

[KPN]

31. We need a poll to know that?!

Faux Noose and RW domination of talk are the foundation of conservative power in America. If we ever regain control of the WH and Congress, we need to make legislation dealing with media ownership and dominance a priority. As well as large tax cuts for the middle class and truly progressive tax increases on the wealthy. If we want to win this war being waged by the economic elite, we must do everything we can to make sure average and lower class Americans support and are behind us. We need to end the division sowed by fear mongering.

[certainot]

35. nope

As NBC’s Mark Murray points out, “it’s Fox News viewers vs. everyone else.”

come on folks, there's a reason trump paraded limbaugh at the golf course - talk radio is what keeps the GOP from bailing on trump and fox is just the cartoon cliff notes.

all of a sudden the pundits are incredulous about the weight that trump's charges of a 'deep state' coup - limbaugh's been leading 1500 radio stations with it FOR 2 YEARS! it's the only reason trump can get the gop to follow him with all this bullshit and continued obstruction, why the media gives it any credit, and they're going to try to get obama and clinton under oath on it.

[quakerboy]

36. How in the world

Does MSNBC hold 30% trump approving? or 38% who are not worried about attempted russian intereference?

Like.. are these people just watching because they like the newscasters haircuts?

[wss2001]

37. Fox shoots the bird at America.

If you look at the graphs, the bar representing Fox looks like a long middle finger, saying f**k you to us all.
The American RT brain washes so many people it’s sickening!

[Doitnow]

38. So, l hope they get over-confident----as long as we make sure we don't.

[LibFarmer]

52. Years of brainwashing of idiots, racists and deplorables

Paul Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the propaganda machine.

[calimary]

54. If you rotate those graphics 90 degrees in either direction,

It looks like the four fingers of a hand, with the “saluting finger” figuring prominently.



,,/, ‘’/‘

[OMGWTF]

58. People who watch FUX News know less than those who watch NO news at all.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/07/21/a-rigorous-scientific-look-into-the-fox-news-effect/#761ba10a12ab

[Politicub]

59. A steady diet of Fox would drive anyone to madness. For those who are already conservative,

it functions as a holy text. The verses are delivered by prophets wearing miniskirts and others who sound like a burning bush that wasn't extinguished in time.

[FiveGoodMen]

63. So, we know how the enemy was created. Now what?

[Initech]

64. Cult leaders break down their followers' ability to think freely.

And that's exactly what the Fox cult is doing. Rupert Murdoch is a mad man.