Source: Pew Research Center
The top is more eloquent regime garbage.
But still regime garbage.
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Statistical proof of what I already knew - conservatives are ignorant idiots.
The Atlantic still sucks
Makes sense considering the news sources near the top are the same college students would have to cite on occasion for a research paper or whatever. Why not go back to the same old well to get their news after graduating?
Idiots watch conservative news. Got it.
I mean, we knew that like 100 years ago but. Polls.
And the New York Times is there too
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!!!!!
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?
Not necessarily. The kids of Hispanic immigrants would naturally speak English far more commonly than their parents thus they'd have more choices for their news. I hear Univision is starting to get more conservative lately though so that might have an impact on the viewership statistics.
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%.
I just pulled a random stat didn't see from what year. It was like 15% difference.
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.
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.
Indeed! I don't know much at all about American networks, I hadn't even heard of Newsmax before this post.
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 very 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.
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
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?
It's not "what % of college graduates get their news from this source", it's "what % of adults that get their news from this source have a college degree"
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.
Imagine "All Americans" as one of the bars like the others - its just another cohort.
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.
There's a Tucker network? What kind of braindead idiotic shit is that?
He openly promoted the debunked and bullshit white replacement theory for one. Dude is basically all but an avowed Nazi at this point. He was buddying up to Nick Fuentes recently as well, who is an avowed Nazi.
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
Aww. No Twitter. But according to Musk and his dickriders, "We're the media now".
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.