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Rush Limbaugh Audience Most Educated and Knowledgeable

Knowledgeable News Audiences
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News audiences vary widely in age, education, and how much they know about what's going on in the nation and the world. Most regular consumers of news are better informed, better educated, and older than the average American. But the audiences for some news sources stand out in this respect
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Judged by their answers to three news 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.

Audiences with the highest educational achievement, by far, are the literary magazines and online news outlets. Readers of news magazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR, and viewers of C-SPAN also are much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.

Some of these attentive and educated audiences also are older than average. The oldest audiences belong to the NewsHour (60% age 50 or older), the O'Reilly Factor (58%), Larry King Live (56%), network nightly news (54%), and Sunday morning talk shows (52%).

The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
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Already knew it.
Did you know that gobs of Democrat staffers listen to Rush everyday so they know what's going on in the country?
They then give a list to the Democrat Congressman they work for.
Ironic. Taxpayers are paying for Democrat staffers to listen to Rush.
(In all fairness, Republican staffers listen to Rush, also.
Rush is the voice of America.
Good intelligent Question.

Ironic how the republican party fixed the election to get Bush in office just like this question was fixed to get a Rush supporter to win with 0+ & 4- ratings. 15 opposing and 3 pro answers. Report It

I find him to be the most stupid! Kind of like the Howard Stern of politics!

His own site is NOT the place you'd go for an objective analysis of his audience.

hey nimwit....the wikipedia is not real...but what the masses put together to be believed as the truth. there are no real stats there, no real proof and anyone can post something on there and claim it as real.

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH just call me George

well, he needs to get a "Handle on the law".

you didn't list the three questions?

odd... maybe that's because two of the three answers are Republican answers... odd?

Republicans know Republican answers... weird? go figure?

who is the fool that actually thinks that's a non-bias assessment of knowledge? that's what I want to know...

Stop making stuff up. Wikipedia is useless anyone can change anything there. People listen to Rush because he tells them what they want to hear to validate their beliefs.

Yes, as I hear he speaks to a lot of doctors.

If one of them, and you don't know what an " 's " is to show possession, I am sure their brilliant. As far as your numbers go, I wounder who editorder dem der tu.

This is almost laughable, let me guess who your source is, Rush Limbaugh. A drug doing philanderer, married three times and caught with drugs twice, yep he sure is something to look up too.

They cant be all that smart if they are listening to that lying drug addict of an idiot. HA I laugh at the hypocritical loud mouth.
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that stupid network of his EIB . he should add an S to it EIBS= excellence in bull sh!t

I don't doubt it.

I like the new guy, Jerry Doyle better though.
Conservative radio is great.

That is most unlikely! I am more of an Al Franken, and Bill Mahr fan myself!!! They are two of the smartest men on Television, and radio. Rush is a big fat idiot!!!

Limbaugh is just an entertainer. He tells his audience of dimwits what they want to hear. He never debates opposing views.

No person outside of a truck depot takes him seriously.

Judging by the callers on his show I would be in utter shock if his audience was the most educated.

I don't listen to him, and the only people I hear speak about him are Liberals.It seems if it wasn't for all of the Libs listening to him, he wouldn't have a job..

I can't understand how you came to the conclusion that Limbaugh's audience is the most educated and knowledgeable when the article states "Readers of news magazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR, and viewers of C-SPAN also are much more likely than the average person to have a college degree." The most important word in that sentence is "and". You'll notice it doesn't say "or". I, personally do 5 of the 6. If you only do one, you are getting 1/6th of the story...

Of course, I trust the "Pew Research Center" for their unbiased reporting.

Hmmm..did some searching and it looks like only Rush's own website reads it that way...the link below has the whole study and the Daily Show seems to have more college graduates than Rush-somehow that doesn't surprise me. Rush did get top honors for "most attentive" audience. Republicans more likely than Democrats to watch news "that shares their point of view" and "among specific programs, the O'Reilly Factor, religious radio shows and Rush Limbaugh's show are important news sources for conservatives especially those who like the news to reflect their views." This was done before the election-and "about eight-in-ten Americans (79%) were able to recall that Martha Stewart was found guilty in her recent trial. There also is broad awareness of the name of the terrorist group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. In an open-ended format, 71% volunteered al Qaeda or cited Osama bin Laden. "

"By comparison, 56% know that the Republicans currently maintain a majority in the House of Representatives. And about the same number (55%) are able to correctly estimate the current number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq as between 500 and 1,000 (the survey was in the field from April 19 to May 12, 2004). Those who were wrong on this last question were more likely to underestimate the number of casualties (28% said they thought it was under 500) than overestimate (10% though it was 1,000 or more)."

Is that sad or what?

The most knowledgable audiences in outlets tend to be those where the typical reader, viewer or listener is well-educated, older, or both. For example, roughly six-in-ten (59%) regular readers of literary magazines like the New Yorker and Atlantic answered all four current events questions correctly, highest among regular news audiences. The readership of these magazines also has the greatest proportion of college graduates.

Similarly, the readership for political magazines like the New Republic and Weekly Standard is relatively knowledgeable and well-educated; fully half correctly answered all four questions. By contrast, regular viewers of Larry King Live scored about as well as those who read political magazines (49% all four correct), although just 24% completed college. However, the audience for King's program includes a much greater proportion of those age 50 and older than the audience for any other source (72%).

Those who say they regularly watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart are much younger than average just 17% are 50 and older. But they are relatively well-educated 38% are college graduates and are fairly knowledgeable about current events (47% all four correct). Regular viewers of the Daily Show are about as knowledgeable as the regular audiences for the O'Reilly Factor (47%), the NewsHour (46%), talk radio (45%) and Sunday morning political talk shows (44%).