Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid

Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
A new survey of American voters shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources.
December 15, 2010

Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.

So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false. This study corroborates a previous PIPA study that focused on the Iraq war with similar results. And there was an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that demonstrated the break with reality on the part of Fox viewers with regard to health care. The body of evidence that Fox News is nothing but a propaganda machine dedicated to lies is growing by the day.

The conclusion is inescapable. Fox News is deliberately misinforming its viewers and it is doing so for a reason. Every issue above is one in which the Republican Party had a vested interest. The GOP benefited from the ignorance that Fox News helped to proliferate. The results were apparent in the election last month as voters based their decisions on demonstrably false information fed to them by Fox News.

By the way, the rest of the media was not blameless. CNN and the broadcast network news operations fared only slightly better in many cases. Even MSNBC, which had the best record of accurately informing viewers, has a ways to go before it can brag about it.

http://www.alternet.org/media/149193/st ... ou_stupid/


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....You can hear the surprise in *MY* voice.... rofllol rofllol

wow..so much for the softer and kind side of LJ, LJ to bad you can't get cable from your trailer..your missing some great shows! Must be a lot of stupid people, including liberals who watch Fox. Who knew!

From the link:


"In eight of the nine questions below, Fox News placed first in the percentage of those who were misinformed (they placed second in the question on TARP). That’s a pretty high batting average for journalistic fraud. Here is a list of what Fox News viewers believe that just aint so:


91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts
56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is unclear) "

Cable News makes us all stupider.

LJ, give me a break. :can't hear

Personally I watch none of the major networks. However my Dad is a big Fox news fan and I consider him the smartest, nicest, and most generous conservative in the world. Thanks Dad! So poo poo on you LJ. Happy Festivus anyway.

Fox dont make you stupid. Liberals are stupid.

Really? Marxian Social National Barack Channel is "accurately" informing it's viewers ...then why is LJ so stupid? Oh, that's right, they are accurately informing their viewers on how to become good Marxian socialist.

fat Batsturd wrote: Fox dont make you stupid. Liberals are stupid.

Hi VL!