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Libertea Party
09-12-2010, 03:50 PM
Or describe themselves as such. Colbert Report, Glenn Beck, "Political Blogs", and Daily Show aren't far behind in a Pew Research study:

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Section 4 (http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1795) has more. The whole report (http://people-press.org/report/652/) is interesting.

axiomata
09-12-2010, 04:32 PM
Very interesting. Thanks for the link. Unsurprisingly the libertarian readers at the WSJ also had the most knowledge about current events. (Probably more closely correlated with the WSJ demographic's education and income but still...)

http://people-press.org/reports/images/652-63.png

Jordan
09-12-2010, 04:36 PM
<--- libertarian WSJ subscriber.

Interesting to see 37% read WSJ for "in-depth" reporting. The WSJ is, in my opinion, the only newspaper that actually researches current events. I can read through a whole news cycle through the day, grab my WSJ from the table at dinner time, read through it, and come out more informed from "old" news.

forsmant
09-12-2010, 05:41 PM
I have to agree with Jordan. My local paper is junk. I can scan through it in about 5 minutes. It takes me at least three hours to go through the Wall Street Journal.

Matt Collins
09-12-2010, 05:47 PM
I love the WSJ even though I realize the danger of them being a propaganda machine for the establishment. I don't subscribe but every time I see one laying around I read it and it is always informative and thought provoking.

Knightskye
09-12-2010, 05:59 PM
I think some people might be just using the word "libertarian" without, uhh, actually being one.

t0rnado
09-12-2010, 06:36 PM
I think some people might be just using the word "libertarian" without, uhh, actually being one.

Libertarianism seems to have gotten diluted over the past few years. I honestly doubt 33% of the WSJ's readers support legalizing all drugs.

wormyguy
09-12-2010, 07:01 PM
I love how Rush Limbaugh listeners did better on the easy current events quiz than NPR listeners.

legion
09-12-2010, 07:03 PM
Who the fuck watches morning shows anyways? Plankton? I have yet to figure it out.

Humanae Libertas
09-12-2010, 07:42 PM
33% of those so called Libertarians, probably believe in preemptive war, Muslims are out to get us, and Dubya was a great "fiscal conservative" president. :cool:

Dreamofunity
09-12-2010, 08:26 PM
I love how Rush Limbaugh listeners did better on the easy current events quiz than NPR listeners.

NPR has some really interesting and honest panel discussions, but they're usually on some random topic or a very broad topic partly relating to a current event. And a lot of their panelists, even if honest, are really biased.

I think on Science Friday they were talking about Prostate Cancer.

I flip between NPR and the main talk radio during my bus rides to class. I switched over to the main talk radio station during the prostate talk.

wormyguy
09-12-2010, 08:31 PM
I would never listen to Rush Limbaugh, and I listen to NPR all the time, but I still found that funny.

Libertea Party
09-13-2010, 05:33 AM
I love how Rush Limbaugh listeners did better on the easy current events quiz than NPR listeners.

What I revel in is that Rush listeners beat Olbermann and Maddow (http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1795). That has got to sting them especially. Also the "serious" Sunday shows are worse off... I wonder how David Gregory et al feel about that!

El Rushbo Dittoheads trump Maddow/Olbermann viewers... doubt you'll see that on MSNBC despite how they like to look down on them.