Huffington Post poll --- Well that's quality polling

Fox Demographics: 9% Black viewers
Fox Demographics

BET Demographics: 10% White viewers
BET Demographics.

All other demographic data is fairly equal. BET pulls a younger audience.

So If I'm white and don't watch BET am I a raciest? If I am a Black man and don't watch FOX am I a raciest?


Not that BET is a news station however, it does point out that the Huffington is wrong and also that Colbert is still funny as it gets

@bobknight33 actually, you just made an awesome supporting argument for Colbert's point.

BET is clearly aimed at African American viewership -- it's even in the name -- and it still has a higher percentage of white viewers than Fox has black viewers (and BTW that the 1.38% comes from Nielsen, and I've never heard of your source).

So, the question is: Is Fox News explicitly trying to be White Entertainment Television? Or are they trying to be a Fair and Balanced news organization?

I comment, you decide.

>> ^NetRunner:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/bobknight33" title="member since May 9th, 2009" class="profilelink">bobknight33 actually, you just made an awesome supporting argument for Colbert's point.
BET is clearly aimed at African American viewership -- it's even in the name -- and it still has a higher percentage of white viewers than Fox has black viewers (and BTW that the 1.38% comes from Nielsen, and I've never heard of your source).
So, the question is: Is Fox News explicitly trying to be White Entertainment Television? Or are they trying to be a Fair and Balanced news organization?
I comment, you decide.


It seems the 9% figure is for fox.com, not the TV channel. Don't know about the reliability. In any case, when comparing the BET and FOX demographics, keep in mind that African Americans constitute 13% (assuming Colbert's numbers are correct) of the US population, so without finding out what exactly the caucasian percentage in the US is, I'd say the BET and FOX numbers for each minority are in about the same ballpark. Your point still stands, of course, just being pedantic.

Is it Possible the real question is what percentage of the black population are conservative? If you are a conservative you would be more likely to watch FOX. From BlackDemographics.com it shows that 4% voted for Mcain. That's in the ball park of the Huffington post poll and not totally out of line from the 9% viewership that I listed above.

BlackDemographics.com


I think Shepard Smith of FOX News is Fair and Balanced. Beck is preaching history. O'reilly well he is off the wall like Ollbermann.

@bobknight33, Beck is preaching something, but history it ain't.

Also, I think there was an admission in there that Fox News intentionally tailors its content to attract conservatives. Now if you couple that with their penchant for race-baiting and promoting every single "be afraid of non-white people" story it can, you have a pretty good argument for why only a very small percentage of african americans are conservative.

It also has something to say about the kind of news that conservatives seek out to reinforce their ideology...

On the whole...I consider Fox's programming to be better than BET programming. That's how absolutely shit I feel BET programming is.

>> ^bobknight33:

Beck is preaching history.


Beck teaches history with a sense of logic that can both prove and disprove his same point. So it's not correct and in fact is to easily manipulatable for anyone to use to prove their perspective on things. It's not logical it's not scientific and it's not properly sourced.