Quote Originally Posted by j3374 View Post
FOX is conservative. This is the reason that conservatives prefer to watch FOX. If it seems center to a viewer, it's because the viewer matches the FOX demographic. The same applies to the liberal outlets.

Ranking the media from liberal to conservative, based on their audiences - The Washington Post
I'd say that chart is fairly accurate. I'd also say that the outlets that showed up on the far left and right side of the scale really shouldn't be viewed as hard news. The ones on the far right of the scale are primarily opinion shows and do not claim to be hard news. The ones on the far left of the scale are pretty much the same, although I'm not sure how Steward and Colbert even fit on this list since their programs are comedy, satire and while opinion driven are not really news but rather entertainment.

Fox news on that chart, their placement, again not a surprise. The vast majority of Americans are not liberal, that's actually a very small minority of people. Most are either centrist or conservative leaning to a degree. Although, in my opinion, many (not all) but many who fall into the dead center are completely unaware of most things, which is why they choose the center.

Most Americans, your every day guy who keeps up with politics and world events a little bit doesn't want an ideological view from either side. The news outlets on the left side of the scale are all heavily ideological and since most American's are not that's why their ratings are also pathetic. Fox has stronger ratings, in part because many feel the hard news isn't ideological and in part because the hard news isn't presented in a fanatical fashion in either direction.

But the most important fact, people should take news as it really is. If someone does this or that and that is factually what happened, Person A blew up building B, who that news is presented by shouldn't affect whether it's true or not, but it does for many people. This is called insanity, ideological insanity.