It could be that we are politically engaged and read about every event that happens but the majority of people don’t pay much attention to politics. So Trump getting 30%+ is based on a lot of those voters having read 1 or maybe 2 favourable things about him and nothing else, similar with Democrat voters.
For example, Fox news averages 3 million viewers, which is less than 1% of the population.
True, looking at this article, it seems that it could be as high as 24 million which is just above 7% of the population, but the political scientist in the post has doubts of how true the figure is and for people who watch, is it 5 minutes or 5 hours.
Wow, the older generation thing is really interesting. Definitely giving that paper a read.
Re: interpretation of events, yeah, that makes sense. I just find it alarming that Trump could get 30%+, or Brexit.
It could be that we are politically engaged and read about every event that happens but the majority of people don’t pay much attention to politics. So Trump getting 30%+ is based on a lot of those voters having read 1 or maybe 2 favourable things about him and nothing else, similar with Democrat voters.
For example, Fox news averages 3 million viewers, which is less than 1% of the population.
I assume this means 3 million viewers at any one time—the total number of people who primarily get their news from Fox would be much larger.
True, looking at this article, it seems that it could be as high as 24 million which is just above 7% of the population, but the political scientist in the post has doubts of how true the figure is and for people who watch, is it 5 minutes or 5 hours.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0119/Is-watching-Fox-News-the-ultimate-conservative-calling-card