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!

Comments

Speaking of flame war

[baresi]

I am sure I will lose some of my positive karma on this one but nevertheless...Are those not watching Fox News doing that much of a better job? Looking at the world that's highly questionable in my opinion

Fox Story + Slashdot Hivemind = Big Pageviews

[RobotRunAmok]

It's not about correlation, causation, polls, or journalism. It's about shameless, mindless, easy click-whoring. Slashdot pageviews must be running a bit off-pace here at the mid-month mark, so Taco's decided to set that right with a quick snark-fest. Slashdot may make the Leftie noises tech-hipsters crave, but they gotta make a payroll just like any other right-wing capitalist organization.

Re:Sheesh

[Charliemopps]

You're right. It would be completely impossible for an intelligent person to have a differing opinion with someone as intelligent as yourself. We should just make a law that declares liberals right, republicans stupid and MSNBC as the national news network while banning all other channels so they stop misinforming people with these scandalous opinions that disagree with common sense.