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Ärende: Just like I said...
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Faux "news" viewers are morons, and the brass at Faux "news" has to lie,
AGAIN, to try to defend their shabby propaganda outfit.


Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
Share|Posted by Mark on December 13, 2010 at 4:02 pm.
[Thanks to AlterNet for reprinting this article]

Yet another study has been released that proves 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% believe that the stimulus legislation lost jobs.
|72% believe that the health reform law will increase the deficit.
|72% believe that the economy is getting worse.
|60% believe that climate change is not occurring.
|49% believe that income taxes have gone up.
|63% believe that the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts.
|56% believe that Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout.
|38% believe that most Republicans opposed TARP.
|63% believe that Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear).

The conclusion is inescapable. Fox News is deliberately misinforming
their viewers and they are doing it for a reason. Every issue above is
one in which the Republican Party had a vested interest. They 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 they 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 that they do not get away with
it.

[Addendum:] The folks at OurFuture had previously addressed some of the
issues above and provided documentation that effectively debunks the
myths.

[Update:] Michael Clemente, Fox News senior vice president of news
editorial, dismissed the study's findings in a statement to the New York
Times:

"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 obviously prefers the snarky retort to the substantive
rebuttal, and clearly has no affinity for the truth. When the Times
fact-checked his response they discovered that the Princeton Review
actually ranks the University of Maryland among the "Best Northeastern
Colleges," and it only made it to 19th on the list of "Best Party
Schools." So even in their response Fox affirmed the conclusions in the
study by continuing to misinform. At least they're consistent.

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/68-68/4280-study-
confirms-that-fox-news-makes-you-stupid

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