[quote]
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, [URL="http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/671.php?nid=&id=&pnt=671&lb="]conducted a survey[/URL] 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 [URL="http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/102.php?nid=&id=&pnt=102&lb=brusc"]previous PIPA study[/URL] that focused on the Iraq war with similar results. And there was an [URL="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1370"]NBC/[I]Wall Street Journal[/I] poll[/URL] that demonstrated the break with reality on the part of Fox viewers with regard to health care. The body of evidence that Fox News is nothing but a propaganda machine dedicated to lies is growing by the day.
[B]In eight of the nine questions below, Fox News placed first in the percentage of those who were misinformed (they placed second in the question on TARP). That’s a pretty high batting average for journalistic fraud. Here is a list of what Fox News viewers believe that just aint so:[/B]
[LIST]
[*]91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
[*]72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
[*]72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
[*]60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
[*]49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
[*]63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts
[*]56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
[*]38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
[*]63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is unclear)
[/LIST]
The conclusion is inescapable. Fox News is deliberately misinforming its viewers and it is doing so for a reason. Every issue above is one in which the Republican Party had a vested interest. The GOP benefited from the ignorance that Fox News helped to proliferate. The results were apparent in the election last month as voters based their decisions on demonstrably false information fed to them by Fox News.
By the way, the rest of the media was not blameless. CNN and the broadcast network news operations fared only slightly better in many cases. Even MSNBC, which had the best record of accurately informing viewers, has a ways to go before it can brag about it.
The conclusions in this study need to be disseminated as broadly as possible. Fox’s competitors need to report these results and produce ad campaigns featuring them. Newspapers and magazines need to publish the study across the country. This is big news and it is critical that the nation be advised that a major news enterprise is poisoning their minds.
This is not an isolated review of Fox’s performance. It has been corroborated time and time again. The fact that Fox News is so blatantly dishonest, and the effects of that dishonesty have become ingrained in an electorate that has been been purposefully deceived, needs to be made known to every American. Our democracy cannot function if voters are making choices based on lies. We have the evidence that Fox is tilting the scales and we must now make certain its corporate owners do not get away with it.[/quote][URL="http://www.alternet.org/media/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes_you_stupid"]Source[/URL]
I thought this was common knowledge?
oh glaber where are you
well people don't need to conduct a research to figure out that FOX shouldn't even be considered as a news source
Called it.
[QUOTE=venn177;26726409]I thought this was common knowledge?[/QUOTE]
not to people who watch fox news. their common knowledge appears to go only as far as "look both ways before crossing the street"
[QUOTE=Jaehead;26726418]well people don't need to conduct a research to figure out that FOX shouldn't even be considered as a news source[/QUOTE]
It's still news, it's just biased as fuck.
:foxnews: [B]False study states that we are making you stupid are funded by terrorists
that hate jesus! [/B] :foxnews: :patriot:
Well, there you have it folks. It isn't just obvious; it's scientific.
Well, now we know how Glaber came to be.
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;26726429]not to people who watch fox news. their common knowledge appears to go only as far as "look both ways before crossing the street"[/QUOTE]
Even in that example you seem to be giving them too much credit.
I have got to stop my parents from watching this stuff.
[QUOTE=venn177;26726495]Even in that example you seem to be giving them too much credit.[/QUOTE]
"2+2 is 4"
lol
Everyone in my family watches Fox news and believes every word. From aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents. I feel like an outcast with them.
[QUOTE=Panda X;26726528]Everyone in my family watches Fox news and believes every word. From aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents. I feel like an outcast with them.[/QUOTE]
It's all my god damn parents watch. My mom can care less, but loves Sarah Palin. My Dad is one of those "Oh god everything is a conspiracy, the government is poisoning us and the world is gonna end soon" guys, and my grandmother worships Bill O'Reilly.
I love my parents.
I didn't need a study to tell me this. My mom has changed a lot ever since she started watching it religiously.
[editline]15th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Panda X;26726528]Everyone in my family watches Fox news and believes every word. From aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents. I feel like an outcast with them.[/QUOTE]
I know how you feel.
[editline]15th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Borg184;26726584]It's all my god damn parents watch. My mom can care less, but loves Sarah Palin. My Dad is one of those "Oh god everything is a conspiracy, the government is poisoning us and the world is gonna end soon" guys, and my grandmother worships Bill O'Reilly.
I love my parents.[/QUOTE]
My dad works with Afghans on a daily basis. Whenever he comes home and mom get's going on one of her rant's he just nods his head knowing not to piss her off. She's gotten pretty xenophobic...
[editline]15th December 2010[/editline]
I mean today my mom was talking about that fellow who started the filibusterer. It went like this:
Her: "That guy is a [i]self proclaimed[/i] socialist!"
ME: (knowing not to talk to her about politics) Oh is he? Isn't that the guy who started the filibuster?"
Her: "What's a filibuster?"
I then proceeded to explain the concept of a filibuster to my 58 year old mother.
the only fox (business) show worth watching is Stossel
[QUOTE=Doriol;26726787]the only fox (business) show worth watching is Stossel[/QUOTE]
egh even he makes me cringe
[QUOTE=Habsburg;26726821]egh even he make me cringe[/QUOTE]
I actually enjoy his show
but yeah, he's the only person associated with Fox who isn't completely batshit insane and xenophobic
[QUOTE=Doriol;26726844]I actually enjoy his show
but yeah, he's the only person associated with Fox who isn't completely batshit insane and xenophobic[/QUOTE]
Shepard Smith?
[QUOTE=Doriol;26726844]I actually enjoy his show
but yeah, he's the only person associated with Fox who isn't completely batshit insane and xenophobic[/QUOTE]
But he has to be one or the other right? Thought that was a requirement to get hired.
Beck.
[quote]63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts[/quote]
I think this is the part that's most shocking to me.
[QUOTE=Prismatex;26726868]Shepard Smith?[/QUOTE]
Yeah he actually knows how to do his job. I mean I don't like his opinions but at least he has some fucking standards.
[QUOTE=venn177;26726409]I thought this was common knowledge?[/QUOTE]
It doesn't hurt to have more proof.
I think the title of the thread is somewhat inaccurate. Fox News doesn't necessarily make you stupid. What the title should be is that it doesn't inform you of the truth.
If you're already stupid, watching Fox News may not make you stupider, but it isn't going to help you become informed.
What's this about making them stupid?
Don't they come made that way, Fox-Watching Conservatives I mean
[QUOTE=Fycix;26727006]What's this about making them stupid?
Don't they come made that way, Fox-Watching Conservatives I mean[/QUOTE]
They get indoctrinated, usually from Birth. It's not hereditary, it's gained.
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