Fun with numbers
Xavier makes me listen to Fox all the time, saying "we have to know what they are thinking."
He just got back from Montana where, assuming he was a "forinor" people told him all kinds of things about Obama being Muslim, Acorn causing the economic crisis and McCain and Palin being our nation's only salvation.
This kind of talk is straight out of the Fox playbook and sometimes it freaks me out.
And then I run the numbers.
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Those people scare me. Really, really scare me.
I read Fox online for the very same reason. Thank you for running the numbers. I feel better now.
i added a new chart for you in the post.
you are right that msnbc is up, but they are still far below fox, which is still far below cnn.
-Scott
PS: You are a big web metrics nerd! Thanks for documenting the echo chamber.
Unfortunately, most of the people who watch Fox on a daily basis are not internet users.
i don't buy the idea that the majority of retirees don't have internet connections. internet penetration in the US is now at about 90% and older people (over 65) were the fastest joining population three years ago.
however, you are right about the cnn vs. fox viewer stats: they are neck and neck with about 450K daily viewers each.
that said, overall offline news as a whole continues to decline as it has in recent years - with newspapers being hit the hardest. people are increasingly turning to the internet for their information and studies show that online most people stick to the preferences they have offline. For example if they watch a particular brand of local news, they tend to go to that local news site online. I would bet this is true for national news too.