By Bob Dorn
More people name FOX News as their avenue to the truth than any other network, according to Gallup, which released its study yesterday (July 08). Of course, most people simply told Gallup that they watch television in general for their news (55%) but FOX was specifically named by 8 percent, without prompting. Perhaps surprisingly, CNN was volunteered by 7%.
FOX News viewers are almost twice as likely as CNN viewers to be 50 or older, and 94% of them say they are — or lean toward being — Republican. And, gasp, the venerable polling organization actually says in its findings that FOX fans are “much more likely to be white, Protestant, attend church weekly, and to earn $75,000 or more per year.”
(for more, gallup.com)
Bob Dorn
Bob Dorn was an Evening Tribune staff writer and left the paper, becoming the local stringer for The New York Times and San Jose Mercury News and writing for The Reader and San Diego Magazine. He taught writing for some 12 years in UCSD's Literature Department writing program. Bob garnered a Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego chapter, 2016 Journalism Award.
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I am surprised that MSNBC- home to Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry and Steve Kornacki– has seen its ratings tank. CNN is the runner up to Fox? That can’t be a complement.