It's Everyone Against Fox News

[ZiprHead]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-fox-news-viewers-vs-everyone-else-new-poll-concludes-2019-05-07

While viewers of all the other major networks mostly agree on the questions asked in the poll, Fox News fans remain outliers.

For example, on Fox, Trump’s approval percentage is a lofty 73%, a full 35 percentage points above his rating among viewers of the network among whose viewers he earns his second highest approval number. And, as you can see, there’s a wide split on whether Russia poses a threat to the integrity of future elections.

Democratic pollster Peter Hart described the results as a “hung jury,” as in a trial when one or more of the jurors disagrees with the others. “Not innocent, not guilty, and they haven’t reached a consensus,” he said.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Does this mean that if Trump wins re-election, Fox News is the most powerful media force?

 

[ZiprHead]

Does this mean that if Trump wins re-election, Fox News is the most powerful media propaganda force?

FTFY

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I find the 11 pt disparity between Mueller Report clearing Trump verses Trump being honest about the Report among Fox viewers quite interesting, as Trump is saying the Report cleared him quite substantially.

 

[Gun Nut]

wouldn't the thread title have been more accurate if it read, "It's Fox against all the other news"?

 

[ronburgundy]

Does this mean that if Trump wins re-election, Fox News is the most powerful media propaganda force?

FTFY

Not sure those are different things. A large % of Americans are devoid of reason, willing to buy into propaganda, and susceptible to racist misogynist ideology. Thus, the organizations most willing to lie and spread hate and fear of non-whites and women could also be the most powerful as a result. But it's a tossup whether that crown goes to FOX of the GOP. Oh wait, they are the same thing.

 

[ronburgundy]

Not exactly news. Fox viewers are consistently shown to be the most objectively wrong on matters of clear cut fact, science, and history.

The only question is whether only morons choose to watch Fox or does Fox turn its viewers into morons. The smart $ is that it's a lot both.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Not exactly news. Fox viewers are consistently shown to be the most objectively wrong on matters of clear cut fact, science, and history.

The only question is whether only morons choose to watch Fox or does Fox turn its viewers into morons. The smart $ is that it's a lot both.

Political morons. There is something about politics (and sports) that can allow an otherwise intelligent person become extremely manipulable and the willful ignorance can excel. The amazing thing is the compartmentalization of it all.

 

[lpetrich]

I did a principal components analysis on the data, a kind of data mining. That is essentially fitting the data to a multiaxial ellipsoid, and then finding the lengths and orientations of its axes.

The second and third ones had lengths about 5.1% and 2.4% of the longest one, meaning that most of the variation was in one direction. In that direction, the largest amount of variation was in the direction of Fox News, with broadcast having -0.18, CNN having -0.37, and MSNBC having -0.45 that variation. So of the three non-Fox sources, broadcast-news watchers were the least anti-Fox, and MSNBC watchers the most, with CNN watchers in between.


Despite Fox News's sycophancy of him, it does not seem to be good enough for him.
Trump proposes a government-run TV news network to counter CNN | Ars Technica
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "While CNN doesn’t do great in the United States based on ratings, outside of the U.S. they have very little competition. Throughout the world, CNN has a powerful voice portraying the United States in an unfair...."
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "....and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!"

From Ars Technica,

Law professor Richard Painter, who was the chief White House ethics counsel in the Bush administration from 2005 to 2007, tweeted that Trump's proposed network sounds "Just like Pravda, the Reich Propaganda Ministry and other fine examples of state-run media."

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US already runs TV and radio networks

There are already several US government-run TV and radio broadcasters overseen by the US Agency for Global Media, which describes itself as "an independent federal agency that seeks to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy." The agency's broadcasters are Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

...
This existing US-run media agency has two overarching goals, which it describes as follows:

1. Expanding freedom of information and expression, which are universally acknowledged as key to free, open, democratic societies, which in turn support American interests through stability, peace, alliances, and trade;
2. Communicating America's democratic experience and values, which serves the same purpose. In covering the United States, we open a window onto democracy in action.

Trump seems to want a network that would be more narrowly focused on touting the greatness of the US.

USAGM – U.S. Agency for Global Media - "The U.S. Agency for Global Media is an independent federal agency that seeks to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy."