Rogues List - 2010
A: On the right:
Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter, Bachmann, Beck, Dobbs, Hannity, Malkin, Miller, Noonan, Ingraham, Novak, Savage, Buchanan, Cavuto, Schlafly, Crouse, Kudlow, Krauthammer, Lowry, Steele, DeLay, Morris, Gingrich, Hewitt, Kristol, Drudge, Elders, Bozell, Ailes, Boulet, Sadow, York, Medved, Horowitz, Reagan, etc, etc.
B: On the left:
Woopie Goldberg, Keith Olberman, Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, ah...hmm...
posted by Richard at
Saturday, February 13, 2010
2 Comments:
The SuperBowl generally gets over 100 million viewers. All broadcast networks combined get around 40 million viewers daily. American Idol usually gets 20 million. O'Reilly gets 4 million, Beck about 3 million.
Facebook Chat sends over 1 billion messages per day. Google processes over 300 million search requests daily. Over 175 million people use Facebook daily. Approximately 30 million use Wikipedia, 10 million a day for Yahoo.
"Regular readers of literary magazines like the New Yorker and The Atlantic proved to be the most knowledgeable - 59% correctly answered four current events questions, a higher percentage than any other news audience. The readership of these magazines also has the greater proportion of college graduates." (http://people-press.org/report/215/news-audience-increasingly-politicized)
So the message is really the public perception of the medium's utility, and what it provides, in terms of news, entertainment, information, and veracity.
Would a researcher spend any time at all comparing the accuracy of information on Wikipedia versus on-air by Beck, or O'Reilly?
Plainly there are more people who need, or at minimum, are receptive to the opinions of WingNuts on the Right...not so much on the Left.
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