{"id":14919,"date":"2010-04-14T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/discovery-tlc-viewers-lean-right-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:29:52","slug":"discovery-tlc-viewers-lean-right-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery-tlc-viewers-lean-right-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Discovery &amp; TLC viewers lean Right? | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve watched television shows via my computer since 2004, so I&rsquo;m not too plugged in to the changes in channel line-ups. But some of the trends on this chart showing the political orientation of television viewers surprised me. In particular, that the<strong> History Channel, Discovery and TLC all lean Right in their viewers. <\/strong>But then again television viewing has a somewhat older skew I assume, and older people are more conservative today. Thoughts? It makes more sense now that TLC has Sarah Palin&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62O3IA20100325\">new show<\/a> if they knew their viewer demographics well. CNBC&rsquo;s slight Leftward tilt is surprising to me as well, but remember that a fair amount of the <em>cultural<\/em> Left is rather affluent (Barack Obama and Bill Bradley were both notable for initially fueling their insurgent campaigns thanks to big donations from investment bankers, Obama successfuly).<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3560\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e79c0_research-graph-target.jpg\" alt=\"research-graph-target\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nmrpp.com\/research-targeting.html\">Source<\/a> (H\/T <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/isteve.blogspot.com\/\">Steve<\/a>)<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e79c0_4JBP8OqY12s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve watched television shows via my computer since 2004, so I&rsquo;m not too plugged in to the changes in channel line-ups. But some of the trends on this chart showing the political orientation of television viewers surprised me. In particular, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/discovery-tlc-viewers-lean-right-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}