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Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed
A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!
This is so stupid. Fox doesn't even profess Obama was not born in the US. And people confuse Fox's news segments with say pundit commentary. Fox get's a much of its stories the same place everyone else does, the wire services. I recall being on a forum where someone was ranting about a Foxnews story, how bad and biased it was etc. Turns out it was an AP story posted on Foxnews. Some of those questions are clearly slanted. "72 percent believe the economy is getting worse" things like that are relative. You can come up with a pundit or someone to throw out numbers to say as a comparison to this or that the economy is up but no one in their right mind thinks the economy is in good shape. So if I, regardless of where I get me news, live in a state that is losing jobs at a higher rate than another state those figures mean nothing. My observation is that the economy is getting worse. It doesn't make me "stupid" because I'm going by what I observe. I find it interesting that most of those questions are politically charged. Ask them math questions then come see me.
You say that as if there was something wrong with a bias against stupid people.
You are welcome on my lawn.