McDonald’s Workers Are Told Whom to Vote for

razark · 11-01-10, 02:58 PM

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Actually, independent studies of news media in the US show fox's NEWS to be only slightly right of center. Next was National Public Radio (slightly left), and all the other news media was much farther left than fox is right.

I've seen that mentioned several time recently, but I keep forgetting to look into that. Does anyone have a link handy to any of these studies?

tater · 11-01-10, 03:00 PM

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I've seen that mentioned several time recently, but I keep forgetting to look into that. Does anyone have a link handy to any of these studies?

Was a university study before the 2008 election. I think in CA.

The polling of reporters was a similar time frame (over 80% self-IDed left of center I think) (certainly true for the people I know at NPR and the NYT).

razark · 11-01-10, 03:10 PM

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Was a university study before the 2008 election. I think in CA.

Thanks. That gives me a bit more to start searching with.

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(note they only examined news shows, not shows that were explicitly opinion (so no O'Reiley, Hannity, Olbermann, etc). Just the straight news.

That's probably why the results seem a bit off from what I expected.

tater · 11-01-10, 03:24 PM

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That's probably why the results seem a bit off from what I expected.

Absolutely. I'd not argue that the overall roster on fox news is not farther right than that, it probably is. Of course then you need to similarly analyze the non-news schedules of all the other outlets.

So when ranking ABC, you then need to not just look at the NEWS, but then also the comedies, etc. How many "conservative" sitcoms are there, exactly? Such a broad analysis will clearly throw the other outlets even farther to the left given the other ~20 hours of programming they air every day.

We know people of both parties. Pretty high level, actually, I find myself at functions with governors, senators, etc a couple times a year (the last, sadly was Friday at the memorial for my neighbor who was killed in a ballooning accident over the Adriatic—was odd to hear Gary Johnson say sh*t so many times giving a eulogy). This one couple we're friends with are hard core democratic players. They are docs, and highly partisan. They send invites to $1000 a plate dinners at their house for dem candidates. They send them to people they work with. You think the employees at one of their very large practices are not intimidated by being asked to donate? We typically manage to avoid politics much of the time, and I can avoid some pushiness because I will flat-out state I'm an independent to them. There is enough libertarian (lower case

) crossover on some issues, they likely don't know exactly where I stand compared to them. I do that intentionally, because they'd retaliate with fewer referrals to my wife, likely. They're that partisan.

There are many places in the US where merely being more conservative is "intimidating"—at least as much as this pretty benign paycheck note. (try being conservative in NYC, Santa Fe, or San Francisco... it's just easier to not be political than to be honest and try to "network" there)

razark · 11-01-10, 03:33 PM

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Absolutely. I'd not argue that the overall roster on fox news is not farther right than that, it probably is. Of course then you need to similarly analyze the non-news schedules of all the other outlets.

Most of my exposure to Fox News has been due to the fact that my mother-in-law leaves it on all the time, and I only usually see it when I'm there in the evenings. That seems to be when they're running the opinion stuff.

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So when ranking ABC, you then need to not just look at the NEWS, but then also the comedies, etc. How many "conservative" sitcoms are there, exactly? Such a broad analysis will clearly throw the other outlets even farther to the left given the other ~20 hours of programming they air every day.

But that would mean I'd actually have to watch TV, and I find that there is really nothing that I can stand to watch anymore...