THESE AMERICANS, SO DUMB, SO VULNERABLE TO FOX NEWS.  WHAT ARE WE INTELLECTS GOING TO DO? – AT 7:30 P.M. ET:   A new study out from Pew confirms the supremacy of Fox News.  Those in the White House reading the study are advised to have heart medication nearby:

Pew is out with their annual look at how news consumers get their information, with several interesting breakdowns across various forms of media.

But one category that sticks out is which cable news network plays a “significant role in people’s news habits” – not surprisingly, FNC grew year-to-year but CNN and MSNBC were down, even among Democrats.

Rotten right-wing Democrats.  You just can't trust them. 

From the study:

Overall, cable news continues to play a significant role in peoples’ news habits – 39% say they regularly get news from a cable channel. But the proportions saying they regularly watch CNN, MSNBC and CNBC have slipped substantially from two years ago, during the presidential election.

Only Fox News has maintained its audience size, and this is because of the increasing number of Republicans who regularly get news there. Four-in-ten Republicans (40%) now say they regularly watch Fox News, up from 36% two years ago and just 18% a decade ago. Just 12% of Republicans regularly watch CNN, and just 6% regularly watch MSNBC.

As recently as 2002, Republicans were as likely to watch CNN (28%) as Fox News (25%). The share of Democrats who regularly watch CNN or Fox News has fallen from 2008.

COMMENT:  What this tells me is that the universities haven't done as much damage as we may have thought, and that many Americans see right through the mainstream media. 

The mainstreamers have been outfoxed.  We must ask what will happen to the institutions on life support – CNN, MSNBC, CNBC.  Can they really survive with these losses?  Of course, Comcast is taking over NBC, and maybe it will provide a humane, loving end to its two cable failures.  As far as CNN is concerned, it will probably live on as a curiosity.  At least viewers of Ted Turner's dream don't have to put up with Christiane Amanpour any longer, although ABC views now carry that burden.

September 13, 2010