NPR, Democracy now, Al Jazeera and local public radio are my jam. Why is Fox missing?
WDYM why is Fox missing? Fox News is 4th from the bottom.
Never mind lol
I have met some questionable American academics who enjoyed the Joe Rogan Experience, which has puzzled me for a while. The fact that it’s less popular among the college educated than Fox News, Tucker Carlson Network and Breitbart certainly helps reinforce my world view a bit.
Idiots watch conservative news. Got it.
I mean, we knew that like 100 years ago but. Polls.
Now we have to answer the question : are less educated people drawn to right wing news or are conservative news drawn to less educated people ?
And the New York Times is there too
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Could you do it quietly? Kthx.
You think IQ is a measure of intelligence?
I’m guessing you didn’t go to college.
I’m surprised PBS and NPR have such a disparity in their audience. PBS is close to average which is good and makes sense as a public service.
Why does NPR skew so much higher towards college grads?
NPR has very little enterainment. PBS and such has a bit more to capture a wider audience. I don’t think its so much that the college educated don’t watch pbs as much as more non college educated watch pbs and don’t listen to npr. These are percentages of the audiences. Given that I catch npr all the time as I only seek elswhere on the radio when in the car if I just don’t like whats on npr but I sorta got to go outa my way to catch npr. Also you have to catch or stream later like the new hour but news on the radio is throughout the day every day including rebroadcast of bbc.
I think NPR touches on higher level topics, as well as interviews with professionals in fields that the average person might not have an interest in
Just a reminder, having a college degree doesn’t make you smart. Not saying education is bad, but look at conservative media. Plenty of dumb motherfuckers have some sort of degree.
True but from my experience people who succeeded in getting a degree from a decent institution tend to be a bit more cerebral. Now there are incresing numbers of sorta crap institutions and im not even sure what the quality of education is like in the modern era at my alma matter. Its kinda to bad we can’t all be able to take a one semester sebattical every 5 years or so and take like 3 classes and live on a campus and see what things are like. It would kinda be cool.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. This is about viewers, not creators. Most of the creators of conservative content know they’re full of shit and only care about getting viewers and making money.
I’m not comparing apples to oranges. I’m also talking about views. I know plenty of college educated people who watch fox news and I consider these people some of the dumbest fucking people I work with. They are still college educated views. Hence my statement of being college educated doesn’t mean your smart. 53% of WSJ are college educated and the WSJ has some of the stupidest fucking articles I’ve ever read. And I once had to be subscribed to it for a college class.
Telemundo and Univision stats are interesting. Hispanic population is not far off from white as far as number of college graduates showing that educated hispanic populations go to other news sources.
Does that mean Telemundo and Univision are poor quality?
Does that mean Telemundo and Univision are poor quality?
HYPOTHESIS: Telemundo and Univision are watched by a lot of recent immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. The reason they immigrated was because in their countries of origin they didn’t have a lot of opportunities including education. However their children, who are more likely to go to college, are also more likely to have news sources that are not Telemundo and Univision. END HYPOTHESIS.
Is the similarity in graduation rates recent or decades old? As a fraction of adults 25 and older there appears to be a wide margin of about 30% vs 11%.
Why the fuck is the Joe Rogan Experience even being given credibility as a “news source?”
Seems a lot of college grads haven’t been updating their news feeds in reaction to newsroom cuts, which is disappointing. I would hope sources that have really taken a hit, like wapo and npr, would start moving down the ranks.
Well this is a survey from almost a year ago
Oh, snap, yikes, my bad. I totally thought I checked the date before I posted this and saw it was from this week. Thanks for pointing that out; I feel much better now.
There’s a Tucker network? What kind of braindead idiotic shit is that?
Kind of a weird graph…
- the “percentage of US adults who has a college degree” is on a scale of all US adults
- the “percentage of US adults who get their news from a given source” is on a scale of all US adults with college degrees
But they’re shown on the same bar graph, which implies they’re shown on the same scale. Right? or am I misreading this?
is on a scale of all US adults with college degrees
no, “Among US adults who regularly get news from ____, % who hav ea bachelor’s degree or more,” not all US adults with a degree, just all adults
OK you’re right. the scales are:
- on a scale of all US adults, the percentage who have a college degree
- on a scale of all readers who primarily get their news from (given magazine), the percentage who have a college degree
So the scales are still different.
I’m guessing they’d make an argument that: “If the college graduate readership were distributed evenly across all news sources, then (given magazine) would have (the percentage of all US adults who have a college degree).” But the labels don’t say that, which is why it is confusing.
I was hoping NPR would be 1 but 3 is not bad.
Wouldn’t you want it to be lower? The issue is that high quality news isnt be consumed uniformly by the country.
The country also elected Trump twice, so let’s hold out some hope things could change.
