Can't the popularity of Fox News be explained by the distribution of intelligence of the population?

[Billy000]

See, the average IQ is 100. That means most people who watch the news are of average intelligence or below. These people tend to turn to Fox News which is a network that puts everything in simple black and white terms: Obama is 100% incompetent and republicans are 100% blameless. It does not overload viewers with too many pesky facts or nuance. Everything is simplified. This, of course, will attract dumb/average people. That, to me, explains why such bullshit propaganda is so popular: too many sheep watch it.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

 

[Delta4Embassy]

See, the average IQ is 100. That means most people who watch the news are of average intelligence or below. These people tend to turn to Fox News which is a network that puts everything in simple black and white terms: Obama is 100% incompetent and republicans are 100% blameless. It does not overload viewers with too many pesky facts or nuance. Everything is simplified. This, of course, will attract dumb/average people. That, to me, explains why such bullshit propaganda is so popular: too many sheep watch it.

Baseline's 100, not necessarily the average.

 

[Moonglow]

Is that why it so popular at McDonald's? Everyone I've ever been in has the TV on Fox...

 

[Stephanie]

What a bunch of unintelligent psychobabble

Fox picks on Obama. waaa
now cry us a river

 

[Stephanie]

What a bunch of unintelligent psychobabble

Fox picks Obama. waaa
now cry us a river

you want to lose some brain cells go watch PMSnbc

 

[blastoff]

I can only imagine the stratospheric IQ levels of race pimp Sharpton's tiny MSNBC audience.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

Fox News is popular because republicans love getting told what to think. MSNBC is unpopular because liberals see it for the bullshit that it is.

 

[Billy000]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

That logic does not make any sense...

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

Fox News is popular because republicans love getting told what to think. MSNBC is unpopular because liberals see it for the bullshit that it is.

Stow it. America watches Fox News because the others report bias as news. Fox News viewers don't need talking heads to tell them what to think.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

That logic does not make any sense...

You're an idiot.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

Fox News is popular because republicans love getting told what to think. MSNBC is unpopular because liberals see it for the bullshit that it is.

Stow it. America watches Fox News because the others report bias as news. Fox News viewers don't need talking heads to tell them what to think.

 

[Billy000]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

Fox News is popular because republicans love getting told what to think. MSNBC is unpopular because liberals see it for the bullshit that it is.

Stow it. America watches Fox News because the others report bias as news. Fox News viewers don't need talking heads to tell them what to think.

So you actually think Fox News isn't biased? It blows my mind you could be that dumb.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Remember when the Fox lineup was O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and Huckabee? Apparently neither do right wingers!

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Yeah. Fox News has the most viewers by far, more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined, so of course it's going to have the least number of college-educated viewers on average.

So?

Fox News is popular because republicans love getting told what to think. MSNBC is unpopular because liberals see it for the bullshit that it is.

Stow it. America watches Fox News because the others report bias as news. Fox News viewers don't need talking heads to tell them what to think.

So you actually think Fox News isn't biased? It blows my mind you could be that dumb.

I didn't say Fox News wasn't biased. Its opinion programs are right of center. Its news programs are markedly more balanced than the others, especially as compared to MSNBC and network news.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Remember when the Fox lineup was O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and Huckabee? Apparently neither do right wingers!

Psst. Those are opinion programs. Yes. Fox News' opinion programs are right of center.

So?

My point goes to the news programs.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Remember when the Fox lineup was O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and Huckabee? Apparently neither do right wingers!

Psst. Those are opinion programs. Yes. Fox News opinion programs are right of center.

So?

My point goes to the news programs.

Yeah those 3 hours during the slowest part of the day make for some compelling television.

 

[peach174]

See, the average IQ is 100. That means most people who watch the news are of average intelligence or below. These people tend to turn to Fox News which is a network that puts everything in simple black and white terms: Obama is 100% incompetent and republicans are 100% blameless. It does not overload viewers with too many pesky facts or nuance. Everything is simplified. This, of course, will attract dumb/average people. That, to me, explains why such bullshit propaganda is so popular: too many sheep watch it.

You have proved that you don't watch Fox at all because none of that statement is true.
Especially the part where 100% Obama incompetent and 100% republicans blameless. They have libs who defend Obama on his point of views and they have shows that puts down the republicans with their points of views.

Some things are black and white while others can have shades of grey.
It is the libs who can't seem to see that there are some things that are black and white and not that everything has just grey.

 

[WelfareQueen]

Fox News has the fewest college-educated viewers. Only ones with less are daytime talk shows. Viewer demographics here:

Section 4 Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Per the survey results the differences are not statistically significant. Post = Fail. Margin +- 3 %


By comparison, 29% of CNN’s regular audience, 26% of MSNBC’s audience and 24% of Fox News’s regular audience completed college.