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The Truth About Fox News Viewers
Fox News ^ | January 05, 2011 | John R. Lott Jr.

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinskytactics; cbsnews; dailykos; foxnews; johnlott; liberalfascism; mediabias; mediamatters; newyorktimes; slate; theatlantic
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Lee Doren did a fantastic analysis of how this "study" was completely unscientific. The Critique
21 posted on 01/05/2011 9:45:52 PM PST by OddLane
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To: JohnRLott

Yet another gaggle of liberal elitists, self absorbed in the mis-conception they are more informed, and smarter than anyone else.

It is obvious, to any analyst, this study is skewed well beyond the scale of reality.This so called “study” amounts to little more than a progressive liberal’s wet dream.

Meanwhile, Fox News, and it’s viewers, are a progressive liberal’s worst nightmare. They awake in a state of panic, disillusion, sweat, and shortness of breathe, in the middle of every night. The cause of their anxiety? Fox News and it’s viewers.


22 posted on 01/05/2011 9:56:43 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: OddLane

Incredible video. Thanks for posting.


23 posted on 01/05/2011 10:07:50 PM PST by stentorian conservative (Obama is sinking the boat that was built to stay afloat.)
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To: GenXteacher

correction, we like hot women who are also 100x smarter than any leftist

fortunately FoxNews has a nice supply....


24 posted on 01/05/2011 10:35:19 PM PST by Enchante (January 1, 2011: Welcome to the New Year in the Era of Obamanation)
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To: JohnRLott
uh-oh - I only watch Red Eye. Did I miss something?


25 posted on 01/05/2011 10:36:55 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: OddLane

Bkmrk post & thread for reference.


26 posted on 01/05/2011 10:59:18 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus - Domari Nolo)
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To: JohnRLott

More misinformation from Fox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DNdy-gsb7Q


27 posted on 01/05/2011 11:20:05 PM PST by LayoutGuru2 (0BAMAC0RN)
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To: kcvl

Oh, yes...he’s not biased.

Elitist bastards...bump!


28 posted on 01/05/2011 11:54:36 PM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: JohnRLott

The lib media is going broke, while Fox goes to the bank. Go figure... LOL


29 posted on 01/06/2011 12:00:31 AM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: JohnRLott

Very nice research! Thank you!

“The WorldPublicOpinion.org survey is a mess. At best, the survey shows that liberals who conducted the survey simply were not smart or careful enough.”

Or.......they drew the conclusions they wanted to draw.

“If any conclusion can be drawn, it is that those who watched Fox News almost every day had not fallen for left-wing myths to the same extent as other Americans.”

You drew the correct conclusion. ;o)

My daddy was a meteorologist and could talk all day long about how the global warming nuts are wrong.


30 posted on 01/06/2011 12:05:24 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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The only thing I dont like about Fox is Glenn Beck. He is an embarassment. Other than that I dont watch tv much, nothing better than this place to get news anyway and all channels these days are more into giving their opinion, as opposed to news which allows the viewer to formulate their own opinion.


31 posted on 01/06/2011 1:41:31 AM PST by hannibaal
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To: Tribune7

And that’s a bad thing?


32 posted on 01/06/2011 1:54:23 AM PST by BenKenobi (Rush speaks! I hear, I obey)
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To: JohnRLott

AM Bump. Bravo John Lott!


33 posted on 01/06/2011 2:48:39 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Shelayne
Someday, I’m going to figure out how to add accents to words. They look so flat without them.

Here's one method: type the word you want to display with an accent into Google. Check down the first page (or two) to see if the word shows up on some webpage in it's accented form. For example, when I type "expose" in, I get, right on the first page that comes up, a link to an article on a band called "Exposé." I copy-and-paste that word into the "Your Reply" window on FR, and correct the case of the word's first letter, to get exposé.

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34 posted on 01/06/2011 3:00:32 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: GenXteacher

35 posted on 01/06/2011 3:05:53 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: JohnRLott

Obviously


36 posted on 01/06/2011 4:15:28 AM PST by tutstar
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To: JohnRLott

The real sucker here is whoever paid for that pile of BS survey.


37 posted on 01/06/2011 4:24:19 AM PST by IamConservative (Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. - Truman)
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To: JohnRLott

Right...and only the “smart” people get their news from John Stewart and Stephen Colbert.


38 posted on 01/06/2011 4:44:25 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: IamConservative
The real sucker here is whoever paid for that pile of BS survey.

Not really. They got the propoganda they paid for.

No matter how sloppily or dishonestly done, nor how many times the poll is debunked, it is now out there and will be cited repeatedly, even by elected officials.

Liberals lie.

39 posted on 01/06/2011 4:44:39 AM PST by digger48
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To: Doogle

Nice Post. I’ve never seen this one.


40 posted on 01/06/2011 5:08:37 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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