Study: Getting your information from Fox News is worse than not following news a

[blacken700]

According to the latest results from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll, some news sources make us less likely to know what’s going on in the world. In the most recent study, the poll asked New Jerseyans about current events at home and abroad, and from what sources – if any – they get their information. The conclusion: Sunday morning news shows do the most to help people learn about current events, while some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who they don’t watch any news at all.

... For example, people who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors). Fox News watchers are also 6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news.

"Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News," said Dan Cassino, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson and an analyst for the PublicMind Poll. "Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."

By contrast, some media sources have a positive effect on political knowledge. For example, people who report reading a national newspaper like The New York Times or USA Today are 12-points more likely to know that Egyptians have overthrown their government than those who have not looked at any news source. And those who listen to the non-profit NPR radio network are 11-points more likely to know the outcome of the revolt against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. However, the best informed respondents are those that watched Sunday morning news programs: leading to a 16- point increase in the likelihood of knowing what happened in Egypt and an 8-point increase in the likelihood of knowing what happened in Syria.


http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless

[Soul Crusher]

This must explain your incompetence and idiocy on so many issues since you seem to be obssessed with Fox 24 / 7 

[blacken700]

hahaha what are you up to, 70,000 post, mr.havenolife 

[MCWAY]

A left-winged university, citing a poll, praising the New York Times, USA Today, and NPR and criticizing Fox News........ .

What's next? Posting studies by doctors that anabolic steroids don't work and don't enhance athletic performance?


Even by TK standards, this is pathetic.

Fox News viewers KNEW that Obama would be the collosal flop that he is, that his policies would crash and burn and make this nation far worse than it was when Bush left office, while you and the TK members were in virtual orgasmic bliss over the Messiah.

Guess what!!! That's PRECISELY what happens.

Fox News viewers knew that the Dems were going to get the lips slapped off their faces last year in the midterms, while silly folk like you swore that the Dems would be in power for decades to come.

Guess what!!! The Dems took the worst beating in over 70 years, of any political party.

But, keep up the corny surveys. It makes for good comedy.

[blacken700]

hey rush is on  better go watch so you can repeat him on getbig 

[Straw Man]

we don't need a study to know this is true

I've met many right wingers who were so utterly misinformed about basic facts on certain issues and when speaking with them further I find out that the ONLY thing they watch is Faux News.

I was at a party recently and was chatting with a woman who told me that the only thing she watches is Fox News.  I thought she was joking so made the comment that she would be more informed if she did nothing other than stop watching Fox news.  Turned out she was serious about watching Fox and got kind of insulted but that just make me laugh even more

[Soul Crusher]

we don't need a study to know this is true

I've met many right wingers who were so utterly misinformed about basic facts on certain issues and when speaking with them further I find out that the ONLY thing they watch is Faux News.

I was at a party recently and was chatting with a woman who told me that the only thing she watches is Fox News.  I thought she was joking so made the comment that she would be more informed if she did nothing other than stop watching Fox news.  Turned out she was serious about watching Fox and got kind of insulted but that just make me laugh even more

What did she say something like the Stim Bill was a joke and Obamacare did not reduce her premiuims by $2500 as promised? 

[MCWAY]

hey rush is on  better go watch so you can repeat him on getbig 

Nice try, Clucky. But Rush went off a half-hour ago.

Not that it has anything to do with Fox News, pegging Obama to be the fraud that he is, while you and your TK brethren slobbered all over him. Of course, I've rippped your silly claims apart with links and articles from CBS, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and a myriad of other sources. So, you'll have to dredge up some other excuses for your futility.

Obama's failure were as predictable as a Monday is long.

[blacken700]

Nice try, Clucky. But Rush went off a half-hour ago.

Not that it has anything to do with Fox News, pegging Obama to be the fraud that he is, while you and your TK brethren slobbered all over him. Of course, I've rippped your silly claims apart with links and articles from CBS, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and a myriad of other sources. So, you'll have to dredge up some other excuses for your futility.

Obama's failure were as predictable as a Monday is long.

your not fooling any one here we know where you get the bulk of your information, rush, hannity and fox news 

[MCWAY]

we don't need a study to know this is true

I've met many right wingers who were so utterly misinformed about basic facts on certain issues and when speaking with them further I find out that the ONLY thing they watch is Faux News.

I was at a party recently and was chatting with a woman who told me that the only thing she watches is Fox News.  I thought she was joking so made the comment that she would be more informed if she did nothing other than stop watching Fox news.  Turned out she was serious about watching Fox and got kind of insulted but that just make me laugh even more

You mean basic facts, like the Muslim brotherhood taking over Egypt, with Mubarak gone. Fox News and conversative radio warned that this would happened for MONTHS. Yet, CNN, MSNBC, and the other liberal cabals ignored it and brushed it off, as fear-mongering.

Now, they're completely shocked about the atrocities going down, at the hands of the very entity that they claimed was no threat to take over Egypt. One goof even claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood was a largely secular organization.

[MCWAY]

your not fooling any one here we know where you get the bulk of your information, rush, hannity and fox news  

I do get a lot of information from those sources. I also get them from CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and others.

The bottom line is that that info, for the most part, has been DEAD ON, namely about Obama, about the aftermath in Egypt and in Libya.

And, in typical cowardly fashion, you dodge the fact that these sources and others got that right (among other things).

Coming from someone who wallows in the red-headed stepchild of cable news (MSNBC), you're in no position to criticize anyone about the accuracy of media sources.

[Straw Man]

What did she say something like the Stim Bill was a joke and Obamacare did not reduce her premiuims by $2500 as promised? 

nope,  she was bitching about how's she was afraid we were becoming socialist and when I stopped laughing I asked what she was referring to and she really had nothing to follow up with which is when she mentioned Faux News

then I asked her if agriculture subsidies were socialism, or medicare or social security or tax credits for oil companies, etc...

This is a woman that I've known for years and used to think was smart.  She's got an undergrad degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA.     Later in the evening we were having dinner and the topic turned again to politics and this woman blurted out that Michelle Bachmann was "brilliant" and my brothers wife, who spends most of her time knitting and "rescuing" animals and doesn't' give a shit about politics heard that comment about Bachmann and just unleashed her.   I, of course, was laughing my ass off.

[Straw Man]

You mean basic facts, like the Muslim brotherhood taking over Egypt, with Mubarak gone. Fox News and conversative radio warned that this would happened for MONTHS. Yet, CNN, MSNBC, and the other liberal cabals ignored it and brushed it off, as fear-mongering.

Now, they're completely shocked about the atrocities going down, at the hands of the very entity that they claimed was no threat to take over Egypt. One goof even claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood was a largely secular organization.

Nope, I'm talking about the daily practice of lying to their unfortunate viewers.

It's been discussed and documented on this site many time

you know exactly what I'm talking about

[Soul Crusher]

Nope, I'm talking about the daily practice of lying to their unfortunate viewers.

It's been discussed and documented on this site many time

you know exactly what I'm talking about

MSNBC does the same exact shit! 

[blacken700]

[blacken700]

 

[Soul Crusher]

 

Blackass - your track record is so horrendous - please tell us what channel you watch?   You thought stim bill would work?  FAIL, Obamacare would lower premiums - FAIL, Egypt was a success - FAIL, and on and on and on and on.   

[Straw Man]

MSNBC does the same exact shit! 

no they don't

[Soul Crusher]

no they don't

LMFAO! ! ! ! !   

Ha ha ha h - are you freaking kidding? 

[Straw Man]

LMFAO! ! ! ! !   

Ha ha ha h - are you freaking kidding? 

of course not

this is WELL DOCUMENTED so my advice to you is to stop wasting your time denying it and just move on to saying you don't care about it

[blacken700]

Blackass - your track record is so horrendous - please tell us what channel you watch?   You thought stim bill would work?  FAIL, Obamacare would lower premiums - FAIL, Egypt was a success - FAIL, and on and on and on and on.   

my track record hahahhaha for you to talk about anybody track record is well priceless  200 million a day the 7th fleet for protection, all from your news source india 

[Soul Crusher]

my track record hahahhaha for you to talk about anybody track record is well priceless  200 million a day the 7th fleet for protection, all from your news source india 

So far maobama has not provided any proof otherwise.   

[blacken700]

So far maobama has not provided any proof otherwise.   

333386 likes big black co#k, i don't see no proof otherwise so it must be true, your reasoning makes alot of sence doesn't it

[Soul Crusher]

333386 likes big black co#k, i don't see no proof otherwise so it must be true, your reasoning makes alot of sence doesn't it

I like women with a booty and big tits, not kenyan fags who parade a woman in public as cover for his down-low lifestyle. 

[howardroark]

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