When you break the US population out into groups based on their primary news outlet you find:
- Fox viewers rank towards the bottom of all outlets (in the company of the "Good Morning Cleveland" crowd....which hardly qualifies as a news show anyway)
- Daily Show/Colbert Report viewers ranked among the most knowledgable
- Rush Limbaugh's viewers came in pretty much identical to NPR listeners, much to the latter's chagrin, I'm sure. Also quite notable, IMO, was the fact that Rush listeners were more knowledgable than any group when it came to knowing the US death count in Iraq!
The only thing I could think of here that could be throwing it off is a bit of a conspiracy. If I'm one of those GOP/Fox-hating NPR types and really want to stick it to them, I might respond to this poll and self-identify as a Fox viewer and intentionally screw up the results.
This is far-fetched and probably giving the fans of Some Things Considered too much credit, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
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