Posted on 01/05/2011 3:35:22 PM PST by JohnRLott
Does watching Fox News rot your brain? According to a report released last month by WorldPublicOpinion.org at the University of Maryland, "Misinformation and the 2010 Election," the more people watch Fox News, the more they are "misinformed."
The allegation rapidly became a favorite topic for leading mainstream news outlets including The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, CBS News, Slate, The Atlantic. Even major newspapers in Canada and the U.K. covered the report. Of course, left-wing websites -- the Talking Point Memo, Media Matters, and the Daily Kos -- reveled in the findings.
The report asserted that Fox News viewers getting political survey questions wrong was not just the result of already wrongheaded Republicans watching Fox News: "The effect was also not simply a function of partisan bias, as people who voted Democratic and watched Fox News were also more likely to have such misinformation than those who did not watch it--though by a lesser margin than those who voted Republican."
But the researchers themselves were clearly misinformed and frequently picked incorrect or left-wing biased answers as the "correct" ones, something the uncritical mainstream media apparently never examined. Take the first four questions of the eleven the report focused on. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
lol....
Skepticism and Narrow Mindness that sounds like Odumbo the DC Circus president - he is so skeptical about America and so narrow minded that he must have bullied the study to be done.
Thanks! She gives me great news.
NPR Listener Characteristics:
1) Celebrate all cultures—except Western Civilization
2) Love Humanity—except the unborn and the too old
3) Support the rights of women everywhere except those women living within the ‘religion of peace’
4) Environmentally Conscious but parked right next to their Volvo is a gas guzzler SUV with a No Blood For Oil Bumper sticker.
5) Believe Everyone Must pay their Fair Share of Taxes yet offshore their money or hide it in tax shelters
6) Demand that Health Care be administered by the federal government as long as their Cadillac heath care package is not disturbed
7) Because they Work in non-profits,law firms or public service, they know best on how to run an economy.
8) Demand that caffeinated alcohol drinks be eliminated while they sip wine after they just drank a Starbucks triple Latte.
9) Demand SOMETHING be done to help the homeless yet demand the police who they loathe,keep the homeless away from THEI neighborhoods
10) Want unrestricted immigration in order to help the poor,victimized,oppressed people of the world as long as these immigrants are the nannies,landscapers and doormen of the NPR listener. If these ‘undocumented immigrants’ DARE establish a business that is in competition with the enlightened NPR listener, than the people need more government regulation.
Go to: Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map
Choose your font from the drop down box and then click on the letter you want to use. Hit select and then copy.
Now, paste that into your word: exposé ☻
With the revelations on the falsification of data by East Anglia on GW/CC, now we have the intentional use of false information to label people misinformed. I noticed that the NEW propaganda of the dummies is that Repeal of HCR will INCREASE the budget deficit. Since the cost of the HCR is front loaded (benes don’t kick in until 2014?). The statement is in fact false and propaganda.
The Professors involved in this charade should be charged with violations of Professional ethics. To blatantly attempt to provide cover for the Dummies and their PROGRESSIVE Propagandist.
We don't believe it so we are ignorant FNC viewers.
Who’s the chick? Nice.
That being said, they can still do better. People like Shepherd Smith, Megyn Kelly, Charles Krauthammer, Bill O'Rielly and the like make me want to smash my TV. Truth be told, I want a completely, unabashed, conservative news network, not this "fair and balance" garbage we get fed from Fox News.
You got that right. Wow
Very nice! Thank you.
Does the article say what the questions were?
MSNBC and CNN’s heads are exploding. Some woman guest NOW? leader? I forget... said Obama’s health care is WONDERFUL and too many people are watching false news.
Folks, this is no longer politics they used the word PROGRESSIVE we must fight blah blah blah. They are at war with America. They said the American public are ticking off at sun tan man repealing they’re saviors ObamaCare.
It is sick! There Alinsky tactics are up. Matthews,Olbie and Maddow and the Ed show are jokes and America and independent voters have figured it out, BUT the progressives have infiltrated our media,government,education et al.
They have declared race and class warfare and Al Sharpton was nasty about the so called sun tan man.
Bachmann 2012!
Great video! Too bad most people would ever spend the time or focused thought to watch and listen to it.
A large portion of the country is willfully being spoon fed the very poison that is killing the America that was.
I suppose, but the dirty little secret is that libs watch Fox too. It’s the only legitimate news organization on TV.
FoxNews is all I trust to watch. When is somebody going to start a bumper sticker campaign with sayings like I ONLY TRUST FOXNEWS?
Isn’t that the “Amber Lamps” guy, too?
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