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