surfsteve wrote:Bill Oriley's average aged viewer is 71 years old? Sounds like bullshit to me. I wonder what the average IQ is of the people that believe that is.
It is what it is. Unless you're claiming that the organization reporting the demographics data is deliberately providing false information, it seems fairly simple to take a poll and then to compute an average. Seventy-one seems a little high to me, but it's not surprising that Fox attracts the most elderly demographics. The rhetoric on Fox compared to other news channels seems like the kind of thing that would appeal to older and less-educated individuals. I'm sure there's some guy who is thirty and who has a PhD who is a Fox News fan, but the vast majority of his peers would shun Fox News. On the other hand, there's little doubt that Fox is the favorite of those who are over 60 and who have only a high school education. All that being said, all popular news sources are highly deficient, but most informed individuals would agree that Fox is the most deficient of the bunch!