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I don't think age has anything to do with it, and Fox News has plenty of younger viewers as well. I think education, ideology, and sensationalism have more (ev
by junon 5y ago
I don't think age has anything to do with it, and Fox News has plenty of younger viewers as well.
I think education, ideology, and sensationalism have more (everything?) to do with it.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoAccording to POS: https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-cable-news-channel-watchers/ https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-... The only big difference between Fox and other networks is that they have way less college educated viewers as a percentage of total viewers. Not sure how good of a source that is, though. There's several (not great) sources online I can see that say the average FOX News viewer is >65. I also see that the average CNN & MSNBC viewer is >59. But according to that POS survey, only 20% of viewers are >65 - which must mean a significant portion of their viewers are REALLY old like 80+ (or the surveys are just bad). 538 gives POS an A- for polls: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/public-opinion-strategies/ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/public... - which is pretty good. So who knows?
- junon 5y agoThis is a correlation at best. An interesting one, but no more interesting than "ice cream sales and shark attacks follow the same curve". There's probably no real way of knowing exactly why Fox News has the viewers it does. We can only guess.