Posted on 08/01/2006 10:23:52 AM PDT by neverdem
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RUSH: I just got this, and I'm not able to study it and really make a whole lot of sense out of it. It's a Pew survey on who watches television and what the partisan political split of various TV show audiences is and all. You get down to what the Pew -- P-e-w -- survey of this stuff, you get down to one section, who's got the smartest, who has the most knowledgeable audience, and on television -- just listen to what this says. "On television, The O'Reilly Factor, has the most knowledgeable audience, 27% of the audience are college grads, which matches the national average," but, but:
Only three audiences in the Pew survey scored higher on high knowledge than O'Reilly at his Factor TV show. Regular readers of The New Yorker and the Atlantic, regular Rush Limbaugh listeners, and regular Weekly Standard and New Republic readers. I don't know if there's anybody above that. I don't have that, because radio and this stuff is not part of the survey, at least from the website that I'm reading this from. But I have always known it. I have always known that you people are among the most knowledgeable, engaged, informed, and educated people listening to any media in the country today. I think I found documented evidence of it here from Pew, but it's just a little aside in a story about television audiences.
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RUSH: I had some time to dig deep into this Pew survey for People and the Press, and it starts out here by saying, "News audiences vary widely in age, education, and how much they know about what's going on in the nation and the world." Then there's a ranking here of various television programs. At any rate: "Judged by their answers to three knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, The O'Reilly Factor, news magazines, and online news sources. Close behind are the regular audiences for NPR and The Daily Show."
It doesn't look good for the major broadcast networks. At any rate, education, age, and knowledge. College grads, this program number two, at 37%. The average age of the audience of this program, 51, and the high knowledge score is 48, and it's number two. This program, number two in all of American media in education and knowledge. It is preceded only by the Weekly Standard and New Republic readers, 38% college grads, 38 is the average age. The libs are dragging us down a little bit. Eh, the libs may be dragging down the Weekly Standard a bit.
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Thank you, thank you, I'm just so proud.
Not bad for a bunch of mind-numbed robots, eh?
Rush is one of the few I will listen too. The show has an excellent format. Another great show for the learned people is Hume's show on the FNC. Of course this db is still the best for getting news, linking to news and analysis of the news.
Well color me smart.
I am honored to finally receive the recognition I so rightly deserve.
Where's the Air America crowd place ???
No shocker here.
I would LOVE to see a battle of knowledge between Rush listeners and Err Amerika.
Notice anything missing from the list??
Where is 'AirHead America'??
Hmmmmmm.....Maybe they aren't as smart as they think they are!
You beat me by mere 'seconds'!
:0)
"The average age of the audience of this program, 51,..."
Actually, according to the chart that's the percentage of listeners over 50 years old. (You can't expect the smartest news audience to miss something like that. ;-) )
I don't see "Common Sense" anywhere in this report...
Here is a man I have found myself agreeing with (and entirely by my calculation) 98.5% of the time.
However rated lowly by various Maid services.
Not sure about some of the results in the table, but I have found FReepers to be the most knowledgable group around.
Apparently you can't measure the depths of the audience for Oldrubeman on PMSNBC.
;^)
Very true. And that's because we keep our pool pure by discarding at the slightest hint of suspicion, any liberal filth that makes its way in.
I wonder if BOR will have this on his Most Ridiculus Item.
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