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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The study’s estimates “imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 28 percent of its viewers to vote Republican, depending on the audience measure.”

Translation: the more people know about the issues, the more likely they are to vote Republican. It is quite telling that while this John guy claims that Fox does not convey accurate news, all he actually talks about are the anchors. I guess that's because if he were to try to support that claim, he would find that the Fox news stories fact-check pretty well.

At work, our home page is MSN. I usually bring up Fox in a different browser. Both have their share of fluffy articles. MSN has sections on News, Sports, Entertainment, Money, Living, and Autos. Fox has sections on Health, Business, Technology, Travel, Opinion, Entertainment, Politics, Sports, Lifestyle, World, Fox News Magazine, US, Retirement, and Movies. It would seem that Fox has more serious content. I just watched some video on MSN: Do vegetarians live longer, to which the answer was, "Yes, they do!" The video was completely full of inaccuracies, starting with the fact that it superficially compared all vegetarians with all omnivores without adjusting for the fact that many omnivores eat unhealthy diets while few vegetarians do (since vegetarians are generally more health-conscious). From that small sample size, I would have to assume that MSN viewers receive utterly skewed "news" and are very poorly informed. I don't have time for a complete review of the site, but I can guess that for balanced, accurate news, MSN should NOT be one's first choice.

11 posted on 01/31/2014 4:07:17 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom; All
Imagine the angst when this purveyor of disinformation and hate saw this headline at "Variety."

Fox News Dominates Cable Ratings for State of the Union Address

13 posted on 01/31/2014 4:18:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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