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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2010, 11:30:15 AM »
A new survey of American voters shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources.


December 15, 2010  Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.

So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false. This study corroborates a previous PIPA study that focused on the Iraq war with similar results. And there was an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that demonstrated the break with reality on the part of Fox viewers with regard to health care.


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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2010, 11:30:35 AM »
Fox News makes up but atiny sliver of the overall voting public.

Why are you far left commies so worried about it    

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2010, 11:33:43 AM »
so you cite a study specifically targeting FOX news as proof even though it found similar attributes for those that watched MSNBC, CNN?

hmmm specifically targeting one network....yea I think we can safely say this study is skewed but I would be interested to know what the findings would be if MSNBC was SPECIFICALLY targeted...
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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2010, 11:34:31 AM »
A new survey of American voters shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources.


December 15, 2010  Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.

So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false. This study corroborates a previous PIPA study that focused on the Iraq war with similar results. And there was an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that demonstrated the break with reality on the part of Fox viewers with regard to health care.
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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2010, 11:36:19 AM »
so you cite a study specifically targeting FOX news as proof even though it found similar attributes for those that watched MSNBC, CNN?

hmmm specifically targeting one network....yea I think we can safely say this study is skewed but I would be interested to know what the findings would be if MSNBC was SPECIFICALLY targeted...


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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2010, 12:38:18 PM »
I've never posted a PM, but I'm doing so now because the poster's gimmick has been nuked.  Here is a PM I received from Mons Venus on Oct. 22. 

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #31 on: December 17, 2010, 01:02:47 PM »
It's obviously Mons the fake soldier.

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2010, 02:55:02 PM »
I've never posted a PM, but I'm doing so now because the poster's gimmick has been nuked.  Here is a PM I received from Mons Venus on Oct. 22. 


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LOL got one today from him with an insult in it as well

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2010, 05:22:06 PM »
LOL got one today from him with an insult in it as well

You only got one?  lol.  I got plenty more.  I think he likes me.   :)

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2010, 05:34:28 PM »
You only got one?  lol.  I got plenty more.  I think he likes me.   :)

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #35 on: December 18, 2010, 03:31:21 PM »
We must have at least a few Fox Viewers who post on this site.

More results from the same study: 
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/671.php?nid=&id=&pnt=671&lb=

Voters' misinformation included beliefs at odds with the conclusions of government agencies, generally regarded as non-partisan, consisting of professional economists and scientists.

•   Though the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that the stimulus legislation has saved or created 2.0-5.2 million jobs, only 8% of voters thought most economists who had studied it concluded that the stimulus legislation had created or saved several million jobs. Most (68%) believed that economists estimate that it only created or saved a few jobs and 20% even believed that it resulted in job losses.
 
•   Though the CBO concluded that the health reform law would reduce the budget deficit, 53% of voters thought most economists have concluded that health reform will increase the deficit.

•   Though the Department of Commerce says that the US economy began to recover from recession in the third quarter of 2009 and has continued to grow since then, only 44% of voters thought the economy is starting to recover, while 55% thought the economy is still getting worse.

•   Though the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that climate change is occurring, 45% of voters thought most scientists think climate change is not occurring (12%) or that scientists are evenly divided (33%).

Other key points of misinformation among voters were:


•   40% of voters believed incorrectly that the TARP legislation was initiated under Barack Obama, rather than George Bush

•   31% believed it was proven true that the US Chamber of Commerce spent large amounts of money it had raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates

•   54% believed that there were no tax cuts in the stimulus legislation

•   86% assumed their taxes had gone up (38%) or stayed the same (48%), while only 10% were aware that their taxes had gone down since 2009

•   53% thought that the bailout of GM and Chrysler occurred only under Obama, though it was initiated under Bush


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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #36 on: December 18, 2010, 03:36:57 PM »
and what were the numbers on the other networks?

hmmm a study specifically targeting one network...sounds pretty reliable to me  ;)

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2010, 04:05:57 PM »
and what were the numbers on the other networks?

hmmm a study specifically targeting one network...sounds pretty reliable to me   ;)

the study  didn't "target" one network.



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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2010, 04:38:19 PM »
the study  didn't "target" one network.



actually it was

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2010, 04:39:50 PM »
if you wonder why they target Fox you may be interested to know who funds them

http://bigjournalism.com/tag/world-public-opinion/

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2010, 04:46:01 PM »
actually it was
Read the study and questions and tell me how they targeted Faux News
You can even just read the story in the link and see what they said about network news viewers, PBS, MSNBC etc.

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2010, 04:47:38 PM »
Read the study and questions and tell me how they targeted Faux News
You can even just read the story in the link and see what they said about network news viewers, PBS, MSNBC etc.
ill find the link where it explains it, the link i had wasnt the same as yours...but ill find it for you straw man

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Re: Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
« Reply #42 on: December 18, 2010, 04:58:28 PM »
ill find the link where it explains it, the link i had wasnt the same as yours...but ill find it for you straw man
The link on my post above will take you to the story (where you can read about mispeceptions of viewers of other news sources) and you will see also see links to pdf's of the study and the questionare