Monday’s Morning Joe devoted a segment to an Axios article, ‘Shards of glass: Inside media’s 12 splintering realities.’ The notion was that, depending on demographics, people get their information from very different media sources and are often unaware of the information that others were receiving.
One of Axios‘ 12 categories is “Right-wing grandpas,” a reference to people who get their news largely from Fox News. What was not revealed was that the average age of Fox News viewers is 68, whereas the average age of MSNBC viewers is 71!
Mika Brzezinski told a condescending story of hearing about some of those “right-wing grandpas” who were convinced that “hurricanes are brought here by our enemies.” Of course, they didn’t provide evidence of Fox News making that claim.
Mika, how about the left-wing grandpas—the kind who watch your show—the people you…
