I think what is going on is that all those college kids who voted for him don’t watch news. Let’s face it the majority of the people who voted for him, voted for him for one reason, they thought it was cool if they were young and the others were teachers and professors, they thought it was sooo sixties to have a black president. Now they don’t really care about day to day news.
They never watched that much before either though. If there were stats showing a dramatic up-tick in the viewership prior to the election with the corresponding drop now, it would support your theory, but I don’t think that is the case.
Too many young people get their only news from Jon Stewart and shows like Saturday Night Live. I’ve had young people tell me that they are well informed because they learn of events by seeing what Jon Stewart makes fun of. Honest to God, that’s how some young people are. They don’t want to even watch a liberal serious news channel. They are convinced that Fox News is evil, even though they have never watched Fox.
I think what is going on is that all those college kids who voted for him don’t watch news.
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Someone about to graduate from a rather large college asked me if I realized just how many graduates have no idea who Karl Marx is.