Wallace Encourages Fox Viewers To Remain Misinformed On Climate Change

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201106270010

June 27, 2011 1:59 pm ET by Shauna Theel

On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace criticized a University of Maryland study which indicated that Fox News viewers are more misinformed than the consumers of other news media. Wallace said the study labeled those who "questioned whether climate change is occurring" as misinformed, and suggested that doing so would be improper.

The study actually asked, "Do you think that MOST SCIENTISTS believe that" 1) Climate change is occurring, 2) Views are evenly divided or 3) Climate change is not occurring. Noting that the correct answer is that most scientists believe that climate change is occurring, the study found that of those who said they watched Fox News "almost every day," 60 percent got it wrong -- significantly higher than the consumers of other news sources.

A Stanford University study similarly found that "more exposure to Fox News was associated with more rejection of many mainstream scientists' claims about global warming, {and} with less trust in scientists."

It is a fact that climate change is occurring, and anthropogenic global warming is so well-supported in peer-reviewed research that, as the Maryland study notes, the United States' National Academy of Sciences and "97% of self-identifying actively publishing climate scientists agree" that it is occurring.

[NightWatcher]

1. Fox isn't about the "news". It's a propaganda machine.

It's purpose is to keep people dumb and further the agenda of their owners and sponsors. It serves to breed ignorance, foster hate and general ass-hatery.

[rpannier]

2. If it wasn't for Fox News I'd never know

That weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq
That the reason why WMD's were not found in Iraq is because Hussein moved them into Syria (why he didn't go with them is a question only liberals and America haters would ask)
That massive voter fraud by ACORN cost McCain the 2008 election
That Obama's win in 2008 was not a mandate, but Bush's win in '04 was a clear mandate
That O' Keefe was bugging Landreau's Senate Office to investigate Acorn "hanky panky"
O' Reilly really cares about the average person
Communism and Fascism are both leftist ideologies
That empathy leads to genocide

[lunatica]

3. Sean Hannity's opinion trumps all the scientists' studies dontcha know

After all he has impeccable credentials. Just as him.