How Mass is Mass Media?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

What percentage of the adult population watches Fox News?

What percentage of the adult population watches ABC and/or CBS and/or
NBC but _not_ Fox?

What percentage of the adult population watches Local News but no
network news?

What percentage of the adult population watches watches local news _and_
network news?

What percentage of the adult population watches no or little news?

What percentage of the adult population reads a local newspaper but no
metropolitan newspaper?

What percentage of the adult population reads a metropolitan newspaper?

What percentage of the adult population listens to radio news? (How
distributed among different sources of radio news?)

What percentage of the adult population has watched and/or listened to
more than one presidential address?

What percentage of newspaper readers read the news section.

What percentage of newspaper readers read the letters to the editor?

What percentage of the adult population gets their news from
conversation with friends, coworkers, or relatives?

What percentage of the adult population do _not_ watch any of the top 10
tv programs?

What percentage of the adult population reads political columns in the
daily or sunday paper?

What percentage of the adult population knows who O'Reilly is?

What percentage of the adult population knows who Edwards is?

What percentage of the adult population knows that H.Clinton ever had
anything to do with health issues?

What percentage of the DP voters know where Kosovo is?

What percentage of the adult population watch 4 or more hours a week of
tv programs _not_ in the top 50 programs?

What percentage of the adult population watches Nick at Night?

What percentage of the adult population have cable tv?

Is there _any_ one "event" (program, speech, movie, headline)
experienced by 70% or more of the population in a given six month
period?

Under what conditions would large numbers of non-voters vote?

Would conditions that would (might) cause non-voters to vote leave their
opinions the same as they are now?

Is patriotism (in the u.s.) a positive attitude or an attitude towards
those who ae (are thought to be) non-patriotic?*

Carrol

*Kenneth Burke repeats a conversation in which one party says, "I'm a
Christian," and the other party replies, "Yes, but who are you a
Christian AGAINST?"

P.S. This post was originally written in response to certain threads on
lbo-talk, but then it occurred to me that some of the questions could
best be answered by professional social-scientists. (Should I put a :-)
after "professional social scientists"?)