I was including in that “half–or more” those Americans who not only don’t expose themselves to mainstream news media, but also don’t expose themselves to Fox et al.
The number of Americans who are disengaged from news media of all types is larger than we-who-follow-news imagine.
Further, Faux is far from the only RW propaganda spewer.
Nonsense! My haruspex is quite certain of Harris’ eventual victory.
The real realm is radio and podcasts. But yes, radio. Old white men skeptical of television media and technology averse throng to radio.
I tried to find out a number for that and found this fascinating study.
To the question though, not outside imagination.
Eight in 10 Americans have gotten news from at least one of two sources in the past month: television or social media. The popularity of each format of news consumption is split by age: Younger adults are most likely to have used social media for news, while a majority of older people have relied on television. Age also divides other forms of news consumption, with young adults being more likely to have gotten news from video platforms, and older people from print newspapers.
So the complete disengagement is only only 20%.
More interesting is which sources are believed by whom. Interestingly Fox is not only not well trusted overall, even conservatives don’t exempt it from their general media distrust much. Well Weather Channel is up there.
I think even less than that- if you look at the poll labeled- TV and social media are the most common ways Americans consume news
You will see-I haven’t consumed news in the past month running less that 10 5, from a high of 9% to a low of 4%
But that is a great cite, thank you!
Fox news is listed as a -10% trusted score, which is the 5th lowest.
If any of the Facebook users here are bored- please go to FB, and scroll down until you hit “Reels”.
Click and go thru- you will find the most outrageous lies about Harris. Please report them to FB. If enough of us do this, maybe FB will do something.
That’s your feed. Mine is almost entirely stand-up comics and people doing engineering lifehack stuff. They feed you what you engage with.
Alright, as a general update on our topic, I will observe that polling for Kamala Harris and the Dems (aka, the Good Guys) looks pretty boyant right now, while the Trump campaign continues its slow/fast/slooowwwww/really really fast (?!)/slow collapse.
Of special note is the crash-‘n’-frickin’-burn of the Mark Robinson campaign in North Carolina. This guy… what can you say? The thing is, Trump doesn’t have much of a path to victory without ol’ NC, so his personal gov pick’s implodo is like, no bueno to the maximo!
Dunno, this continues to NOT feel like a Trump victory year for me, but YMMV!
What is more likely to happen is that Facebook will tell you that you will no longer see them.
Would it hurt to try?
Nope. Just because others have tried and failed, getting the results I described, doesn’t mean the same thing will happen to you.
I think you misspelled sewer.
Facebook has a known history of deliberately feeding upsetting material to people because negative engagement is more powerful than positive engagement. They don’t care that your time on the site is dedicated to identifying and reporting outrageous political dishonesty. They only care that you are on the site. Stickiness rules. And in all likelihood, because this is how you are engaging with the site, the algorithm will give you more of it.
Any further discussion of Facebook should probably go in another thread. But the short version in this context is, yeah, you’re almost certainly wasting your time, at best.
In the accompanying “newsletter,” Nate Cohn states the usual caveats that this is only one poll, yadda yadda…BUT the fact that downballot Republicans fared worse than Trump in the same polling (especially in Arizona and pre-Black-Nazi North Carolina) hints that Trump’s individual strength in these three states might be real.
My feelings are exactly like yours on this. The question in the title of this thread doesn’t care, alas. “Teardrops, rolling down my face…”
I wonder if Robinson’s DOA candidacy might actually help Trump – if, say, enough NC centrist-ish folks “balance” their vote for a Dem governor with a vote for a GOP president.
I get dogs cats and comedians.
Mine are all videos of trains.
Mine are all martial arts. LOL
Awww. I wish I got cats! I post photos of my cat all the time. What’s up Facebook!?!?