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Old 12-18-2010, 10:22 AM   #1 (permalink)
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It's a fact! Fox News viewers are stupid.

Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed: Study


Now with Fox News standard smear #126!

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UPDATE: Fox News senior vice president for news Michael Clemente has responded to the study which found that his network's viewers are more misinformed about American political issues than any other channel. In a statement to the New York Times' Brian Stelter, Clemente disparaged the University of Maryland, where the study was done.

"The latest Princeton Review ranked the University of Maryland among the top schools for having ‘Students Who Study The Least’ and being the ‘Best Party School’ – given these fine academic distinctions, we’ll regard the study with the same level of veracity it was ‘researched’ with," Clemente said.

"For the record, the Princeton Review says the University of Maryland ranks among the 'Best Northeastern Colleges," Stelter notes. "It was No. 19 on the Review’s list of 'Best Party Schools.'"

ORIGINAL POST: Fox News viewers are much more likely than others to believe false information about American politics, a new study concludes.

The study, conducted by the University of Maryland, judged how likely consumers of various news outlets and publications were to believe misinformation about a wide range of political issues. Overall, 90% of respondents said they felt they had heard false information being given to them during the 2010 election campaign. However, while consumers of just about every news outlet believed some information that was false, the study found that Fox News viewers, regardless of political information, were "significantly more likely" to believe that:

--Most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely)

--Most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points)

--The economy is getting worse (26 points)

--Most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points)

--The stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points)

--Their own income taxes have gone up (14 points)

--The auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points)

--When TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points)

--And that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)

In addition, the study said, increased viewership of Fox News led to increased belief in these false stories.

j.wonder, defend thy trusted and revered newscorp sources!



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Old 12-18-2010, 11:07 AM   #2 (permalink)
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whats to defend? fox has 10 x the viewers of any other network so undoubtedly the have 10 x the retard viewers of any other network... they also have 10x the smart people, and 10 x the average people, etc etc...

i was thinking of fox news beating the other cable networks as an analogy to the tax debate.... like in the end, the liberal side basically had to do what the conservative side wanted.... sure they threw in unemployment benefits, but thats something they probably would have had to extend anyway.... what actually happened was that the gop style ideas got adopted and called a "compromise" its just like how fox has 5x the viewers of the next station- because in the end, a compromise in our country is when liberals get a tiny amount of what they want but also conceed that most people actually want the other sides policy.... can u imagine if the gop had caved in on a public option or something? it would have been like 'how can u betray our county to socialism" etc etc... whereas when the dems "compromise" on taxes its like "well i guess we better take the most of what we want that we can get because obviously like 80% of people want the tax cuts etc so i guess we just have to agree to them because they will be passed by the majority conservative country we live in anyway...might as well get some unemployment benefits while were at it".

thats "compromise" because essentially our country is conservative.
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Old 12-18-2010, 11:38 AM   #3 (permalink)
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whats to defend? fox has 10 x the viewers of any other network so undoubtedly the have 10 x the retard viewers of any other network... they also have 10x the smart people, and 10 x the average people,
That's not what they're saying though, they mean a greater proportion of fox viewers are misinformed.
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whats to defend? fox has 10 x the viewers of any other network so undoubtedly the have 10 x the retard viewers of any other network... they also have 10x the smart people, and 10 x the average people, etc etc...
wooooooooosh

thats the sound of the study going completely over j's head
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j. you should work for Fox, they have trained you well.


I give you a piece that says Fox viewers are more misinformed than other news outlet viewers. We would have to assume that means that Fox News feeds it's viewers more bullshit than other news outlets. And you spin it to Democrats and socialized medicine are corrupting the world.

Nice job...





Even Clemente's statement dismissing the study is incorrect bullshit!
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keep fighting each other. pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. there is no man behind the curtain. war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
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Lest we forget the average age for cable news viewer is between ancient and rotting.
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Lest we forget the average age for cable news viewer is between ancient and rotting.


Yeah, people who have nothing else to do but vote...
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fuck every news station but especially fox
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cut and pasted .

In America there are no dreams anymore

This country is run by interests more powerful than we. At large, we are a powerless constituency of less-than-fortunate, less socially endowed citizens who push for LGBT equality, immigration reform, a tax system that is fair to lower income households. Our hopes and dreams are held captive by a system that is more willing to cast us to the wolves than give our ideas a fair chance in debate.

One. One Senator stood up yesterday and called out the egregious state of America, in eight and a half hours we were shown that the representation of liberals, progressives, democratic socialists and democrats in the Senate is limited to one man. One.

Against the best advice, they cut a deal on the 2001 Bush tax cuts that were sold to the American public as expired as of this year. The deal was for unemployment insurance benefits for two million people. The Republicans and blue-dog Democrats held us hostage because they feel empowered enough to do so. The DREAM Act came up for a vote in the Senate and it died. A threat of an unconstitutional act, the Filibuster, killed a bill that received more than a majority of votes. They profess that they're for progress, but the last two years has shown me that they're no longer a party for progress. The two parties have become one.

We've lost the power to sway our government, I fear the corporations and wealthiest have won.
The president has lost my vote. I was willing to give him a chance after Afghanistan was escalated, after Guantanamo continued operations, after the awful health care bill, and after the stimulus failed to produce a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank. His chances are used.

I unequivocally accept a democratic primary opponent from the left in 2012.

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^ this guy even misses the point.

the problem isn't left or right...

It's always been , how to move forward.
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Lateral movement is 'safe'. No chance of going backwards if all you do is hand the ball back and forth and as long as both sides agree to keep the ball in play it'll only ever go left or right.

Cut the purse strings.

Figure out how to crash their limo.
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watched "The Corporation" documentary.

Interesting little bit in there about Fox News...or rather Fox Creating it's own News, rather than reporting the truth.

Two lead reporters ended up being fired because they would not lie by reporting steroids being used in the dairy industry to produce more milk were/are safe for cows and humans.(they aren't)

The bottom line is, Fox won in a court decision that stated, the reporters could not be "whistleblowers" and receive nearly $500,000 in settlements, because Fox news was in no way legally obligated to tell the truth in news reports.

That should be of interest to any Fox supporters.
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Fox news would be funny if loads of people didnt watch it
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I watch fox because they still call it the forecast whereas other stations call it the futurecast.
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LOL at anyone thinking U of MD was "the best party school". And another lol at the idea that any newscast is terribly more legitimate than another, it's all a ratings game full of sadsack stories anyway.
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