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« "You just can't beat John McCain." | Main | Against It Before He Was For It » July 2, 2008What a RushThe upcoming edition of The New York Times Sunday Magazine has an excellent lengthy profile of Rush Limbaugh. It's already online. Here's a bit of it that I found rather interesting, though not actually surprising: Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of "news knowledge questions," Limbaugh's "Dittoheads" - the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience - scored higher than NPR listeners. The study found that "readers of newsmagazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR and viewers of the Daily Show and C-SPAN are also much more likely than the average person to have a college degree."And this bit, too: Limbaugh entertains, but he also instructs. He provides his listeners with news and views they can use, and he teaches them how to employ it. "Rush is an intellectual-force multiplier," Rove told me. "His listeners are, themselves, communicators."Read the whole thing. Posted in Journalism & Media
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