Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid

[Exotix]

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

http://www.alternet.org/story/149193...es_you_stupid/



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.

The body of evidence that Fox News is nothing but a propaganda machine dedicated to lies is growing by the day.





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:


• 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)




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.




*Faux Noize ?*

[ChasC5]

• 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)


Yep, confirmed stupid; and it gets propagated through Internet Forums.

[Peter Pan]

Well this taxed enough already Fox News watcher is informed as I watch more than just Fox and get the local newspaper from our liberal town, seems most Americans do not agree with the direction of the country and voted for redirection to less spending

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan

Well this taxed enough already Fox News watcher is informed as I watch more than just Fox and get the local newspaper from our liberal town, seems most Americans do not agree with the direction of the country and voted for redirection to less spending

Well Duaaaa …. When you cheer politicians to sit around and obstruct and do nothing, then you’re surprised about the direction the country is going?

What wrong, it’s not going backwards fast enough for you?

[Exotix]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan

Well this taxed enough already Fox News watcher is informed as I watch more than just Fox and get the local newspaper from our liberal town, seems most Americans do not agree with the direction of the country and voted for redirection to less spending

Perhaps you've been taxed enough already that so is your mind ?

[Peter Pan]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

Well Duaaaa …. When you cheer politicians to sit around and obstruct and do nothing, then you’re surprised about the direction the country is going?

What wrong, it’s not going backwards fast enough for you?

Originally Posted by Exotix

Perhaps you've been taxed enough already that so is your mind ?

Seems to me the two of you do not get it, Americans did not care for one party not working with the other and Nov was the start of this change. You two still forget that 2/3 of law making is still in libs control, no you remember, the reps could not obstruct not enough reps to stop bills, took some libs to side with the reps to stop anything to go through and some are starting to see what the majority of Amerians want

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan

Seems to me the two of you do not get it, Americans did not care for one party not working with the other and Nov was the start of this change. You two still forget that 2/3 of law making is still in libs control, no you remember, the reps could not obstruct not enough reps to stop bills, took some libs to side with the reps to stop anything to go through and some are starting to see what the majority of Amerians want

Stupid is as Stupid does.

Ever heard of a Filibuster; or did they not teach you that on Fox Noise.

[Y2Kvert4me]

Originally Posted by Exotix

• 72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit

Any answer to this one is mere prediction, since it has not been implemented yet.


We all know "the plan" says it will reduce the deficit, but until that actually happens, it cannot be an argument of fact.

Certainly no Gov't program of this magnitude has ever deviated from plan before or endured cost overruns

Are you suggesting this is an impossibility?

[Peter Pan]

Originally Posted by Y2Kvert4me

Any answer to this one is mere prediction, since it has not been implemented yet.


We all know "the plan" says it will reduce the deficit, but until that actually happens, it cannot be an argument of fact.

Certainly no Gov't program of this magnitude has ever deviated from plan before or endured cost overruns

Are you suggesting this is an impossibility?

This would be a first for any federal program to reduce the deficts or come in under in under budget

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by TxAg

I'll put my bets on a snowball making it thru hell before that happens.

Looks like the heat is out in he'll.

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by TxAg

You want to elaborate or you just gonna run your ignorant mouth again?

I think I'll run my fingers over the keyboard ...

Why? Because I can!

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by TxAg

Yea we can tell that's all you do. Must be hard work being a non-working director.

Jealous

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by TxAg

Not in a million years. I don't get jealous of anyone or anything.

Good for you