From a guy that claimed multiple times, that he doesn’t watch fox news.
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norbert what’s the personal angst?
Thank you I can read and I do “visit” multiple websites including cnn and others.
Do you get it?
Thank you for posting the entire poll.
I wanted to take the survey to see how I compare, but it’s not available. 
There are a lot of really dumb answers there though, like for example, 20% of the population has a $1M annual salary, 30% of the US population resides in Texas, only 69% have high school “degrees”. Are people really this dumb?
I doubt it.
I made this observation in my younger days after travelling much of the world, the majority of people walking the Earth are short, ugly and dumb.
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Some really interesting results: 88% of the pop own a car but only 83% have a drivers License. Only 37% have a passport, 32% own a gun. Interesting stuff.
I don’t know how they got the results they did but whenever I get surveyed I usually do my best to try to give them the opposite of what they are looking for (or at least the opposite of what i think they are looking for). I never answer honestly on surveys, Especially political ones, unless republican of course.
I posted this not because it was posted on foxnews.com (do you get it now norbert?) but for what we as humans perceive what we think is true.
This survey represents IMO what the media WANTS to “feed us”
Could knowing these facts “appease” some minds that are 100% convinced what they believe is true?
Isn’t the responsibility of the media to inform its viewers or listeners of these numbers?
I am asking for both political sides.
The obvious question is the following:
Does the media want to tell the truth?
Correct. Not sure it’s the medias job to educate
Americans on basic facts people can easily find on
their own if they are curious about the real world.
The results would be more interesting if broken down
by groups based on age, educational level, ethnicity,
political identity, etc.
Whats the point ?
I want them to be as inaccurate as possible.
Why ? Lying for sake of wanting inaccuracy.
Strange.
Maybe I should start to watch Fox and this guy in particular. Maybe more of us should instead of the leftist NBC, CBS, ABC. I watch NBC for my nightly local news (Channel 2 here in Houston) and Lester Holt. Occasionally I watch local Fox for Mark Berman.
I used to watch the Fox Network, but got tired of it. I did like to listen to Rush, but I knew 90% of what he would say was to rile up the left to increase his listening audience. I sometimes thought more leftwing guys listened to him so they would have something to get mad about. But even Rush got old after a few years and I stopped listening to him years ago. But, I did like the guy and loved how he would just drive the left up the wall.
But, what I really want is to watch news without an angle. I don’t want Hannity, or whomever else is doing a show like Hannity. I don’t want a Chris Mathews either, we get ample left leaning news form the major networks. Some of you remember when the news was just the news and guys like Cronkite and Huntley & Brinkley were just telling us what happened without their editorializing. It sure would be nice to have that again.
I feel like news now-a-days is more opinion than news. You get some facts and then a panel of folks try to steer you in one direction. The steer you in a direction is what I have a problem with and it happens on both ends of the spectrum.
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What is up with you norbert?
Liar, liar you keep writing. Are you having a bad day? I sure hope it gets better for you and I mean it.
Just because I called YOU out doesn’t mean I’m having a bad day. lol. The world doesn’t revolve around you, despite of what you think.
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That’s the problem you don’t get all off the facts, just the ones that would support their opinions and often taken out of context to present a different impression than the whole thing would support.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-03/what-if-fox-news-viewers-watched-cnn-instead
And indeed one of the things that switchers changed their minds about was Fox News itself: They became more skeptical that Fox would cover a story that reflected poorly on Trump, even if it were true.
This mode of political influence, where partisan media can simply ignore stories that are inconvenient, is a potentially powerful challenge to democratic accountability. It’s also probably not symmetrical. Even media outlets that skew liberal in their coverage generally don’t shy away from covering the Covid death toll or the rise in inflation.
Republicans have relentlessly criticized the mainstream media for decades, but they also gleefully participate in it.
The left, by contrast, tends to stigmatize any engagement with right-wing media, as if fearing contamination through association. (Mulvaney to CBS)
You bring up Trump again?
What is wrong with you guys and derailing another thread?
It fits the thread…perception vs reality…“Look at that s hit stain”.
Republicans are obsessed with child sex abuse, and pedophilia yet the Tennessee GOP just introduced a bill removing a minimum age requirement for marriage.
Under current Tennessee law, you can get married as young as 17 with parental consent.
The bill’s sponsor, Tom Leatherwood (R-Arlington), said the law being considered would add a new marriage option for Tennesseans. “So, all this bill does is give an alternative form of marriage for those pastors and other individuals who have a conscientious objection to the current pathway to marriage in our law.”
But missing from the bill are age requirements, opening the door for possible child marriages, something the bill’s sponsor acknowledged during a Children and Family Affairs subcommittee meeting. “There is not an explicit age limit,” Leatherwood said.