Posted on 09/17/2009 8:05:04 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Whom do Democrats trust more for news: Fox News or the New York Times? With all the vitriol directed against Fox News, one would think that it is a no brainer. But a new Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll shows that it is Fox News. While 43 percent of Democrats have a positive view of Fox News, 39 percent of Democrats feel the same way about the New York Times.
Of course among Republicans or Independents it isn't even a close contest. 72 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of Fox News compared to only 16 percent who have a favorable view of the New York Times. Almost twice as many independents have a favorable view of Fox than the New York Times.
The survey was done from July 22-26 so it doesn't reflect how the New York Times ignored the Van Jones story or the recent controversy over ACORN.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Ping.
Ouch, thats gonna leave a mark!
Sorta like football fans in Detroit finding a different source of sports news other than a blog telling what a great season the Lions had last year.
Yep should do wonders for ad revenue...
How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!
A TAX on NEWSPRINT!
Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and
Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and
Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and
Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,
Therefore:
Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
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We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really don’t need any help!
Now, to be fair, we’re talking about Democrats, and those who can’t read might never have heard of the NYT!
(Also, we’re likely to hear that the NYT is just a local paper available in few places, while Fox is on everybody’s cable system across the nation).
Page 126 of the liberal playbook: Faux News is entertainment; NYT is serious newz.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341966/posts look at my post no 5 and then you will know Fox News RULES!
Even Soviet Communists knew better than to read Pravda and Isvestia for news. To learn what lies you are supposed to be spouting, yes, but for news they tuned in to BBC or VOA, even if they were True Believers.
Similar logic at work here.
Obviously the Rats would "trust" Fox more.
If you live your life an envious, lying, traitorous, sleazebag thief, as most Rats do, you need to know when your neighbours are informed as to the true nature of your activities. You need time to phony up new lies to misdirect them.
The NY Times is still printing the old lies, and is valueless to you.
So they get the truth, just can’t handle the truth
I wouldn't think so, the left lives on hypocrisy.
This day just gets better and better . . (insert grin here)
That’s exactly the reason.
They know what the PURPOSE of the NYT is,
and it’s not to tell the public the truth.
The Dems already KNOW what the propaganda is,
so there’s no reason to read it.
LOL @ Detroit analogy
I think you have the wrong link. I couldn’t find your post.
“...Fox is on everybody’s cable system across the nation.”
Don’t forget: back in the early ‘00s, Fox was NOT on cable across the nation. Many cable managers refused to add it to their line up till customers screamed loud enough. The ‘powers that be’ determined ultimately to go with revenues v ideology. It is now on cable across the country only because of the public’s demand.
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