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 ...
I did a triple take too first time I saw it......*smiles*
Check out his response to some of the liberal "critiques" of his video debunking the anti-FNC study.
Yes, I noticed that too. I wanted to yank them through the television screen and yell 'stop *issing on my leg and telling me it's raining'!
They honestly think we are that stupid.
My point exactly.
People choose to be stupid.
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I just saw this and wanted to thank you. I never even thought to copy and paste from Google. I learn something new every day on FR.
Thank you!
That's very nice of you to say.
Please note the much more technically erudite solution suggested by freeper jellybean in this post. I tried it, and it worked, and as a result I learned something new too.
There are a lot of very clever people on FR, which is what makes it such a cool place to hang out. More clever than I, that's for sure.
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All right, jellybean. All right. Thank you.
Just kidding! ;)
I can’t say that I trust FNC, but I trust them more than any of the other ones. You can’t take anything at face value these days.
Thanks, jellybean! I’m going to have to try it!
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