Source: Pew Research Center
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.
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.
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.
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.
> Show up on campus 5 years later.
> Excited to learn new things, meet new people.
> Wait, no
> nonono
>
> I"m OOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!
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 ?
I believe that the conventional wisdom here is that higher education tends to expose you to new ideas that directly challenge the conservative mindset.
Personally i think there are a lot of quite intelligent conservative politicians, so i would hazard to guess that they have identified the easiest blocs of general public to influence and sway the votes they require.
Why the fuck is the Joe Rogan Experience even being given credibility as a "news source?"
The Atlantic still sucks
I’d be curious to know why, since “sucks” didn’t give me quite enough context, oddly enough.
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.
useful in drawing men towards conservativism, speaks about conspiracies.
This feels classist. The new York times is a piece of shit.
A LOT of these sources are. The majority, even.
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.
newsmax has a higher amount og college funny enough.
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.
NPR member stations can vary pretty significantly on programming depending on your locality. One of the few things they have to have are the top of the hour six minute news segments.
Kind of a weird graph....
But they're shown on the same bar graph, which implies they're shown on the same scale. Right? or am I misreading this?
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.
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.
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