Originally posted by Yeager
I watch em all, more or less, and the people that come down on fox strike me as victimized and vindictive, trivialized and minoritized....angry (aka liberal). Fox reports largely the same things but with a splash of colour the others dont (I have noticed MSNBC trying to be more colouful as of late) and fox definately spins conservative, which is indeed a nice and refreashing treat in the post dan rather, peter jenning, tom brokaw world of news.
And as far as who has a more educated viewer base does not impress me. I do not have a degree and I have spent 20 years working with people who do and by and large, I have not been any more or less impressed with the quality of the person with a degree as opposed to people without degrees. In fact, degreed folks tend to have more maligned points of view and are less open minded about everyday aspects of life.....in my uneducated opinion.
very true, the amount of education often has nothing to do with intelligence. life has shown me many times that when you educate an idiot, all you end up with is an educated idiot. in fact some of the stupidest people I know hold a few degrees.
my comment wasn't about studies of what the more educated viewers watch, but on the fact that when questioned on current event issues, fox viewers are consistently more mis-informed than viewers of other networks and those who get their news through print or PBS.
not only that, but unlike their more accurately informed counterparts, the more they watch and the closer they follow the stories the greater the FOX viewers perception of events veers from reality.
