Study Finds Fox News Viewers Least Informed Of All Viewers

[Botany]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/fox-news-less-informed-new-study_n_1538914.html

Another study has concluded that people who only watch Fox News are less informed than
all other news consumers.

Researchers at Fairleigh Dickinson University updated a study they had conducted in late
2011. That study only sampled respondents from New Jersey, where the university is
located. This time, the researchers conducted a nationwide poll.


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Fox News the more you watch the less you know.

[denverbill]

1. They aren't less informed. It's everyone else in the world that has their facts wrong.

/freeper logic

[LynneSin]

2. I was just going to say the same thing - it's not that they are least informed

they are just informed of a large heaping of misinformation.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Anything comparing how newspaper and online news readers fare against consumers of broadcast news?

Because I suspect the difference would be pretty significant.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. They have less area to store any knowledge.

[Life Long Dem]

5. Their facts are nothing but propaganda

When O'reilly says those are the facts he is saying that is the propaganda.

[Botany]

7. It is amazing what they get away w/ @ Fox

This picture of Taliban or al Qaeda fighters was slipped into a
report on the 2011 protests in Madison, Wisconsin. Fox's job is
to lie or distort the truth or to just make up the news in order to
help the right wing and the rich.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2368683

Roger Ailes developed this model in 1968 with faux news conferences for Richard Nixon
which then got into the regular media.

[warrior1]

6. watching fox makes you stupid

but it also reinforced your bigotry.

[mikeytherat]

8. Mrs. Rat had medical tests the past two days, so I got to observe Faux Newz in the doc's office

I saw:

1. A "conservative, Christian" 16-year-old political activist, who's hero is Sarah Palin, an interview with Herman Cain, and the Fox talking bobbleheads, all tell us how President Obama is a real piece of shit, and the most divisive political figure in American history,

2. an in-depth segment on a wealthy, formerly engaged couple arguing how much each should pay for rent, etc. after the breakup, and

3. a segment called "Normal or Nuts" where people ask the bobbleheads questions, then they decide if the question-askers are "Normal or nuts."

Thank all that is holy for my over-the-ear Senheisers and my iPhone.

mikey_the_rat

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Study also found that water is wet, sky appears blue.

The Pope is Catholic and bears really do shit in the woods.

[struggle4progress]

10. Yet another study finds this? I may have to believe it, then

[aaaaaa5a]

11. how many non partisan studies have now confirmed this?

But the bottom line is that as long as their ratings are good fox is the last news outlet in the world that is going to care.

[Noose4]

12. Truth doesnt matter

They hear what they want to hear reality be damned.

[Initech]

13. Just remember - every single network called Florida for Gore. One didn't.

And if you guessed that one was Fox you are correct. If it weren't for that piece of shit network we'd be a completely different country.

[Fumesucker]

14. And it was Dubya's cousin, John Ellis, that did the actual calling of the election..

http://mediastudy.com/articles/jellis.html

[KurtNYC]

15. I'll bet CNN is jealous -- beaten again by Fox

Which network was it that said that Sadam didn't have WMDs? Mmmm..wasn't it none of them?!

They are all entertainment based. TV is a sales medium, not a research or discussion medium.

The one-to-many model of media is dead.