Comments on: Center of Attention http://themoderatevoice.com/12230/center-of-attention-70/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/12230/center-of-attention-70/comment-page-1/#comment-74439 DLS Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:14:38 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/center-of-attention/12230/center-of-attention-70/#comment-74439 First of all, don't be a loser that typically attacks Fox because it refuses to follow the liberal party line of the media. Criticize it for being tacky and lowering standards of conduct if you want -- oh, but radicals don't want standards of conduct, anyway (unless one is in the media and should therefore be reasonably well left of center). Second, regarding the following: > The Angry Independent looks > at a Pew survey that suggests > the viewers of hit faux news > programs on Comedy Central > are actually better informed > than those who watch "Faux" > News. The site at the link is a loserish site, looking like that of a playpen leftist "independent" who merely is young and doesn't want to commit himself or herself to being a Democrat officially yet. (Could still be playing with the Greens, who knows.) Even FAIR [sic] would be better. The actual report is here: http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319 The summary of findings includes: "Well-informed audiences come from cable (Daily Show/Colbert Report, O'Reilly Factor), the internet (especially major newspaper websites), broadcast TV (NewsHour with Jim Lehrer) and radio (NPR, Rush Limbaugh's program). The less informed audiences also frequent a mix of formats: broadcast television (network morning news shows, local news), cable (Fox News Channel), and the internet (online blogs where people discuss news events). First of all, don’t be a loser that typically attacks Fox because it refuses to follow the liberal party line of the media. Criticize it for being tacky and lowering standards of conduct if you want — oh, but radicals don’t want standards of conduct, anyway (unless one is in the media and should therefore be reasonably well left of center).

Second, regarding the following:

> The Angry Independent looks
> at a Pew survey that suggests
> the viewers of hit faux news
> programs on Comedy Central
> are actually better informed
> than those who watch “Faux”
> News.

The site at the link is a loserish site, looking like that of a playpen leftist “independent” who merely is young and doesn’t want to commit himself or herself to being a Democrat officially yet. (Could still be playing with the Greens, who knows.) Even FAIR [sic] would be better.

The actual report is here:

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319

The summary of findings includes:

“Well-informed audiences come from

cable (Daily Show/Colbert Report, O’Reilly Factor),

the internet (especially major newspaper websites),

broadcast TV (NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)

and radio (NPR, Rush Limbaugh’s program).

The less informed audiences also frequent a mix of formats:

broadcast television (network morning news shows, local news),

cable (Fox News Channel),

and the internet (online blogs where people discuss news events).

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