People Who Quote FOX News Sources Are Getting Laughed Out Of Rooms All Over America Since Obama's Relection.

You can't just say "a study came out"...dumbass. Link up the study.



Last Edited by Chip on 11/18/2012 01:08 PM

Fox News viewers less informed than those who don’t watch news at all: study
MEENA HARTENSTEIN
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

If Fox News viewers want to be informed about current events, they might as well turn off the TV.

A poll released by Fairleigh Dickinson University on Monday found that people who get their news from Fox News know significantly less about news both in the U.S. and the world than people who watch no news at all.

In a survey of 612 New Jersey natives, Fox News fans flunked questions about Egypt and Syria when compared with people who don't watch the news. Fox viewers were 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians toppled their government and 6 points less likely to be aware that Syrians have not yet overthrown theirs.

"Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News," Dan Cassino, a Fairleigh Dickinson professor who served as an analyst for the poll, said in the report. "Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions that those who don't watch any news at all."

Those surveyed also struggled with current events closer to home. Just 47% were able to identify the Occupy Wall Street protesters as predominantly Democratic, while 11% thought they were Republican. Here it was MSNBC viewers who got it wrong the most - watching the left-leaning network was linked to a 10-point increase in the likelihood of misidentifying the demonstrators.

MSNBC viewers did have a 10-point higher chance, however, of correctly identifying Mitt Romney as a frontrunner in the race for a 2012 GOP nominee. Fox News viewers didn't benefit -- or suffer -- in this category, a fact Cassino called "very surprising" given the amount of attention the network has paid to the candidates.

The most informative outlets were found to be the Sunday morning news shows as well as outlets like the New York Times, USA today and NPR.

Another powerful source of news was the "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

Stewart's viewers had a 12-point higher likelihood of correctly identifying the Wall Street protesters, for example.

"Jon Stewart has not spent a lot of time on some of these issues," Cassino said. "But the results show that when he does talk about something, his viewers pick up a lot more information than they would from other news sources."

[link to articles.nydailynews.com]


[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]


FOXtards make it SOOO easy.

I used to be a fox news lover. Have you seen i lately?

The FiVe show spent 15 minutes laughing about twinkies on Friday then jumped to Kim kArdashian. They had Bob Beckel eating twinkies to music.

Waste of time. How do you take a news channel seriously when they have that crap on in the morning and the Fox and Friends BS in the morning. Fox jumped the shark over two years ago and became irrelevant. The only place for true news and investigative journalism is the internet and you have to be careful what you read there.

But yes, fox has lost all credibility and no study or link is needed to prove it. Just watch it. They are as bad with the rights agenda as the other stations are with the lefts agenda. Dog and pony show. Bread and circuses.

"viewers were 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians toppled their government and 6 points less likely to be aware that Syrians have not yet overthrown"

Two foreign affairs questions were asked and this constituted an official college survey of 618 New Jersey residents?

Rushs' media market is about to shrink to cover just the Ozarks.

And that doesn't bother you?

OP, I guess you suggest we watch MSNBC. No thanks.

It's amazing how Fox News catches so much heat when it is no more scripted/biased than MSNBC, CNN, etc. In fact, I'd say Fox News is the best of the three because it doesn't masquerade as an unbiased news network like the other two.

But what about Bengazi...WHAT ABOUT BENGAZI...24/7 @ Fox

Learn how to spell and maybe we would take you seriously. It's Benghazi!

FOX news propaganda, go for it.

I like to watch them to see how often in 5 minutes they will use a particular word, such as entitlement. They'll use it 3 or 4 times in one sentence if they can.

Then the idiot parrots who watch that garbage start talking like Bill O'Reilly in their daily lives and using all the often repeated words.

What garbage and what idiots.

BTW not an Obama fan.

But FOX 'news' is nothing but brainwashing and agendas which are not in the interests of those watching it.

It's extremely annoying how they repeat words and have zero respect for their audience who worships them.

It's pathetic really.

Wake me up when Obama accomplishes something other than running his mouth.

They pander to angry middle-aged white men, the very demographic those who are in charge of FOX news would like to eliminate.

MSNBC is a joke. Al Sharpton? Chris Mathews? The Ed show? They have a collective viewership of like 6 people. And lets face it the women on FOX are way hotter and more intelligent than MSNBC. I personally have a crush on Megyn Kelly.

Yeah That's called Mass Brainwashing. They'll be going around repeating it if they aren't already.

Who the heck ever heard of Fairleigh Dickenson U?

I have the general impression this is a grad paper poll from some liberal schmo on the 10th year of a 3 year program.

Last Edited by Woot Woot on 11/19/2012 05:47 PM

Had you posted this in 2006, you might have been right. It's been a joke even longer than that, but in 06 it started going waaaaay downhill.

I agree; I heart Maddow.

How would the people laughing at the person quoting Fox know it was a Fox quote unless they watched it on Fox?

Let me guess... you are an Obot who knows Fox is the only one Benghazi coverup coverage and it makes you askeered that your little bathhouse buddy might be in trouble.

I have been watching CNN for the last 20 years but about 5 years ago things changed and they became a channel dedicated to constantly and blatantly pushing the democratic agenda. So I searched for another channel to get my news from that didn't spin everything and found out that all news channels were constantly pushing democratic politics. I also have found that for the last 5 years 99% of what's on TV is now pushing a socialist leading to a communist way of life for America. I then came across Fox news which I did't even know existed before which I found the only channel that wasn't spinning an agenda 24/7. I prefer to live my life in a liberal way but when it comes to money and business I'm much more conservative. I always considered myself a liberal but in recent years the liberals in North America have jumped the shark, they have become completely insane.

So your propaganda is better than Fox propaganda?

I can't wait to see those ratings tank......

Funny how Fox has been owning all the other networks combined for years.

Here are the numbers from Friday which shows they continue to draw many more viewers than the others.

[link to tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com]

The only one I'll be quoting is from election night
where Meggan turns to Karl Rove (who has been blabbing away numbers) and says "Is this just Math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better or is this real"

GeezusChrist, I fell off my chair I was laughing SOOOOO HARD!!!

also recorded it and set as my current ringtone!!!!

You GO Fox News, Keep 'em coming!!!