And This is Surprising How?
Farleigh Dickinson University (yeah the one COD supposedly went to) has come out with a poll showing that FOX News viewer are not as informed as they think they are.
The poll — which asked New Jerseyans where they find news and information about current events — found that Sunday morning news shows are the most informative, while Fox News actually leads people to be less informed than those who consume no news at all.
Wow. I’m speechless. 🙂 I mean, I thought FOX News gave everyone a fair and balanced view of current events.
The poll focused partly on popular uprisings in Egypt and Syria. Asked whether the people of Egypt successfully topped Hosni Mubarak’s regime, 49 percent of Fox News viewers answered “yes” — the lowest on the scale — while 68 percent of NPR listeners answered in the affirmative, the highest on the scale.
They also probably think that Libya is a term for a progressive from the South.
“The (poll’s) results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all,” said Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson and an analyst for the poll.
So, I wonder how O’Liely will spin this tonight in the “No Spin Room.”
Tags: Fox News
Fox is nothing less than the political propaganda organ for the Republican party.
It is tasked with DISTORTION of the TRUTH and the promotion of their INSULAR and self-serving right wing agenda.
We all know that.
“Fox is nothing less than the political propaganda organ for the Republican party.”
It’s nothing more than that, either.
well, one can place this craziness at their door-step as well
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/brithers-attempt-to-remove-obama-from-new-hampshire-primary.php?ref=fpblg
I mean, where IS that Lt with the pepper-spray caninster from the UC Davis police when you need him??
And Taitz had standing to file that complaint why?
coz USCIS FUCKED UP and gave that bimbo citizenship!
she is a shining example of the type of immigrant we dont need
The Network for the Misinformed, indeed.
One thing I’d like to know is how journalists (and Democrats for that matter) can even treat these people seriously. For journalists especially — Fox News people aren’t even in the same business as regular journalists and yet they fall all over each other to make sure the Fox stuff is legitimized.
Latest stupidity on Fox – pepper spray is basically a food product. Seriously, Megyn Kelly said that.
So did she drag *her* kids on to demonstrate that this so-called food product is innocuous?
“Fox News…not in the same business as regular journalists and yet they fall all over each other to make sure the Fox stuff is legitimized.”
I think regular news takes the position that if one outlet (even one as egregiously bad as Fox News) can be delegitimized by power brokers, then all news might be under threat.
It is a stupid position which ignores the damage the Fox News does to the very idea that “news” is valuable and meaningful.
Not surprising, considering she thinks pizza is basically a vegetable.