Speaker 1: Just got this and I'm not able to study it,
Speaker 1: and it really made a whole lot of sense out
Speaker 1: of it, because it's about it's a Pew survey on
Speaker 1: who watches television and what the partisan political split of
Speaker 1: various TV show audiences is, and all they get down
Speaker 1: and what's a Pew p U, p e W survey
Speaker 1: of of this stuff? And you get down to one section,
Speaker 1: who's got smartest, who has the most knowledgeable audience? And
Speaker 1: on television? And just just listen to what this says
Speaker 1: on television, it's the O'Reilly factor has the most knowledgeable
Speaker 1: audience of the audience of college grads, which Matt's matches
Speaker 1: the national average. But but only three audiences in the
Speaker 1: Pew survey scored higher on high knowledge than O'Reilly and
Speaker 1: his factor. TV show regular readers of The New Yorker
Speaker 1: and The Atlantic, regular Rush Limball listeners, and regular Weekly
Speaker 1: Standard New Republic readers. I don't know if there's anybody
Speaker 1: above that. I don't have that because radio and this
Speaker 1: stuff is not part of the survey, at least in
Speaker 1: the website that I'm reading this from. But I have
Speaker 1: always known it. I have always known that you people
Speaker 1: are among the most knowledgeable, engaged, informed, and educated people uh,
Speaker 1: listening to any media in the country today, and I
Speaker 1: think I can't. I think I found documented evidence of
Speaker 1: it here from from Pew, but it's just a little
Speaker 1: aside in a story about television audiences. I had some
Speaker 1: time to dig deep into this Pew survey for people
Speaker 1: in the press, and it starts out here. I say
Speaker 1: news audience is very widely in age, education, and how
Speaker 1: much they know about what's going on in the nation
Speaker 1: and the world. And then there's a ranking here of
Speaker 1: various television programs. UH at any rate, judged by their
Speaker 1: answers to three knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong
Speaker 1: to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, The O'Reilly Factor,
Speaker 1: news magazines, and online news sources, close behind the regular
Speaker 1: audiences for NPR and The Daily Show. Uh. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look good for the major broadcast networks at any rate.
Speaker 1: Education age and knowledge college grads. This program number two
Speaker 1: at thirty seven percent. The average age of the audience
Speaker 1: of this program fifty one, and the high knowledge score
Speaker 1: is forty eight. And it's number two. This program number
Speaker 1: two in all of American media in education and knowledge.
Speaker 1: It is uh preceded only by the weekly standard. New
Speaker 1: Republic readers thirty eight percent, college grads thirty eight the average.
Speaker 1: A yeah, so the lips are dragging us down a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh yeah, lip well that the lips may
Speaker 1: be dragging down a weekly standard a bit