Posted on 07/08/2013 9:05:22 AM PDT by smoothsailing
July 8, 2013
Noel Sheppard
This will REALLY make liberal heads explode!
A Gallup poll released moments ago found more Americans consider Fox News their main source for news than any other news outlet in the nation:
Television is the main place Americans say they turn to for news about current events (55%), leading the Internet, at 21%. Nine percent say newspapers or other print publications are their main news source, followed by radio, at 6%.
And who came in first amongst television news providers?
Fox is considered the number one news source by eight percent of respondents. CNN was second at seven percent.
Meanwhile, look at ABC, MNSBC, NBC, and PBS with only one percent, and CBS below that.
As far as other media, eighteen percent of respondents said "Internet/Computer/Online (non-specific)."
Only six percent said newspapers with the New York Times getting only one percent.
Yes, eight times as many respondents declared Fox News as their main source of information as compared to the Times.
This is true of NPR which also garnered only one percent.
Liberal heads are going to spin!
Good news! I can hear the leftists’ heads exploding even as I type this.
By historical standards, CBS dropping below 1% is nothing short of amazing.
Heh, Heh, Heh, I love it.
Only 8% for Fox. You have to add up the numbers for the other outlets to appreciate that most still get their news from the MSM.
The left couldn’t care less. Networks like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC exist to push an agenda. They’re little more than propaganda arms of the federal government. Oh, I’m sure some of them believe they’re fairly reporting the news, but their leftist ideology colors everything.
The alphabet networks actually think Fox News is far right. LOL. If they only knew what people on the far right think of Fox News! Fox is the first network I know of to give the right a public forum, so I don’t doubt they seem radical to those who have pushed the same leftist pablum for decades, but Fox is far from far right.
YOU ARE THERE!
Fox News gets 8%. That leaves 92% that is mostly MSM. We are still losing big time. Lefties are still celebrating near total control of the media. And Fox is hardly FR-TV.
Quite a shift, that's undeniable.
"The two leading 24-hour cable news channels -- Fox News and CNN -- are named by 8% and 7%, respectively. However, no other specific channel -- including -- all of the U.S. broadcast networks that once dominated the news landscape -- is mentioned by more than 1% of Americans."
Only 8% for Fox. You have to add up the numbers for the other outlets to appreciate that most still get their news from the MSM.
That’s an important point.
I use to like Fox but not anymore. The straw that broke the camel’s back is when they started shilling for Amnesty.
It’s an Gallup opinion poll. No advertiser is going to spend money based on this. Traditional TV broadcast news reaches many multiples of any so-called conservative news outlet, and probably of all of them put together.
You could put it that way. You could also say that with all the many TV news sources that are available, Fox News is the choice of the most viewers, attracting about one third of the total market.
FNC has lost much of its cache with me. Bill O’Reilly is Ted Baxter on steriods. Juan Williams is so deeply embedded into BHO, it would take a proctologist to extricate him. Beckel is little more than a partisan hack and ward heeler. How a certified loon like Dennis Kookcincich got to be an FNC contributor is beyond me. I guess BOR thinks he’s a stand up guy. Alan Colmes is simply obnoxious and impossible. I tune out immediately every time see Lamont Hill come on. More fun these days into the Military Channel, watching Finding BigFoot, or Andrew Zimmern consuming bugs on Bizarre Foods.
Exactly.
Saw recent actual numbers of viewers, and the big three STILL outnumber Fox in actual viewers by 20 to 1 (all 3 together) on any
given broadcast.
Have no idea why this new survey doesn’t show that.
SeeBS is to small to even make a solid number on the radar screen!
Gives me hope for America to see that people are tired of listening to the Left leaning lies of the lamestream
“Alan Colmes is simply obnoxious and impossible.”
Yeah, I just wonder how Monica Crowley (Alan’s sister-in-law) manages to go to her sister’s for dinner. And what kind of a liberal dolt the sister is for having married Colmes. I mean he’s not exactly an Adonis! Really makes you wonder.
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