Gallup reports that Republicans more likely than Independents and Democrats to get their news from television. Extra credit if you can guess which cable news channel is their go to choice for misinformation and propaganda.

Courtesy of Gallup:

On a relative basis, Republicans are more likely than independents or Democrats to say their main source of news is television. At the same time, independents rely the most of the three groups on the Internet, while Democrats put the most emphasis on print. 

Fox News is a clear driver of Republicans' higher tendency to turn to television for their news, with 20% versus 6% of independents and 1% of Democrats, naming it as their main news source. No other television, print, or online news source generates as much loyalty from either Democrats or independents. The closest is CNN, named by 10% of Democrats, 6% of independents, and 4% of Republicans. 

Underscoring the different partisan preferences of those who rely on Fox News vs. CNN for their news, the demographic and political profile of Americans who name each as their top news source are highly distinct. For example, nearly two-thirds of Fox News-oriented news consumers are 50 and older, compared with barely a third of CNN-oriented news consumers: 66% vs. 35%. Relatedly, 69% of the Fox News group is married, versus 37% of the CNN group. 

The demographic profile of Americans who name Fox News as their main news source is similar to the profile of Republicans, and for good reason. Two-thirds of core Fox News viewers identify themselves as Republican, and 94% either identify as or lean Republican. By contrast, 46% of core CNN viewers identify as Democrat, and 63% identify as or lean Democratic. 

Relatedly, 79% of the Fox News group describes their political views as conservative, 17% as moderate, and 2% as liberal. Among the CNN group, 21% are conservative, 51% are moderate, and 26% are liberal. Just 2% of the Fox News group, compared with 57% of the CNN group, approves of the job President Barack Obama is doing.

So in a nutshell Democrats like to read, Independents mostly get their news from the internet, and Republicans can only understand it when a pretty blonde lady explains it to them on the magic box sitting in their living rooms.

The good news for Fox is that clearly their business model has worked like a charm. 20% of Republicans name them as their primary news source, 79% of those Republicans identify as conservative, and only 2% of them think that Obama is doing a good job. It is essentially a Roger Aile's wet dream come to life.

The bad news for Fox is that two thirds of their audience is 50 or older, and let's face it most of THAT number are older than 50. This means that though they have captured their demographic, their demographic is rapidly dying out. And with them, if the relationship continues, the Republican party itself.

This means that if Fox News continues in their role as the propaganda arm of the Republican party, and continues reporting the "news" in the manner that they have in the past, and if the Republicans continue utilizing Fox to get their message out to their constituents, they will ultimately end up in side by side plots in the great, and ever expanding, graveyard of history.

And as a liberal I could not be happier with that eventuality. In fact it cannot happen soon enough.