Study: Watching Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News

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Ok, is this better for you? Not everyone who watches Fox News is a loon but 99.99% of loons watch Fox News.

No, it's not. It's still cheap shot. I personally think watching Fox News is a waste of time, however, I'm not going to insult those who think Fox has value.
 

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[h=3]Survey: More Democrats Think Astrology is "Scientific"[/h]A Pew survey of basic politics and history paints Democrats in a pretty unflattering light.

Just think, all those people watch the news and read liberal Web sites like Slate...
 

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All the people who took the survey did so after watching 2 straight hours of Alan Colmes :tongue2:
 

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love libtarded arguments, can only be made by and defended by libtards

I don't be needing no study, I rely on simple math

democrats dominate the high school drop demographic
democrats dominate the living in poverty demographic
democrats dominate the living off the government demographic
democrats dominate the government solution demographic

republicans win every income demographic > 50K
republicans win the work to get ahead and take care of yourself demographic

republicans inhabit the suburbs, democrats own the inner cities

republicans in here honor their words and their wagers
democrats in here kick and screams like fucking pussies, backing out of everything


you do the math
 

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Im not a watcher of Fox News or MSNBC or CNN or any of that, mostly have my TV on ESPN or a FoxSports network.

But what gets me is that I know that MSNBC is extremely left leaning, and FOX News is extremely Right leaning.

Weird thing is, that those on the left try to take stabs at Fox news any time they get a chance, yet those on the right don't really seem to try and take stabs at MSNBC.

It is quite funny when you look at things from outside the box.
 

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^^^^^

all based on real life observations by Willie99, going yard again
 

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Forgot to add that the worst show I have ever watched on any news channel was Rachel Maddow.... How the hell she has her own show is beyond me. Running a close second is anything to do with Rush Limbaugh, he is almost as bad as Maddow.
 

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^^^^^

all based on real life observations by Willie99, going yard again

Obama won the 100k and over demographic in your own state, lol. And you were telling everyone that you didn't know a single person who was going to vote for Obama in 2012, lol. Your observations are always wrong. That's why they call you Wrong Way Willie!!
 

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Im not a watcher of Fox News or MSNBC or CNN or any of that, mostly have my TV on ESPN or a FoxSports network.

But what gets me is that I know that MSNBC is extremely left leaning, and FOX News is extremely Right leaning.

Weird thing is, that those on the left try to take stabs at Fox news any time they get a chance, yet those on the right don't really seem to try and take stabs at MSNBC.

It is quite funny when you look at things from outside the box.

you see, lefties need to keep it simple. They want a single voice delivering the same message for them

Fox News confuses them, you mean there's another side of the story? no fucking way, just go away

that's why libtards do libtarded things like treat an Iranian Dictator with respect and give him a voice while threatening a conservative author with physical violence if she dared take the stage

they're just messed up
 

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Forgot to add that the worst show I have ever watched on any news channel was Rachel Maddow.... How the hell she has her own show is beyond me. Running a close second is anything to do with Rush Limbaugh, he is almost as bad as Maddow.

Easy there, The Guesser is Hittin' That!
 

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Davis Schuster, who has worked for both MSNBC and Fox, and would have an ax to grind because MSNBC Fired him, nevertheless lays out the truth about Fox.
 

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And a Conservative Republican with a Conscience, David Frum has been accurately blasting Fox for years:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/11/frum-fox-news-creates-an-alternative-knowledge-system/
[h=1]Frum: Fox News creates an ‘alternative knowledge system’[/h] By David Edwards
Sunday, December 11, 2011 14:27 EST
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Conservative columnist David Frum, who was speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, blasted Fox News on Sunday for creating an “alternative knowledge system.”
In an article published by New York Magazine in late November, Frum had argued that conservative media like Fox News and talk radio “immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend information.”
In an appearance on CNN Sunday, Frum cited claims made on Fox News that President Barack Obama was proposing a “new Christmas tree tax,” something that was found by both The Florida Times-Union and PolitiFact Oregon to be not true.
“It fed into a story about this Muslim-y kind of president trying to destroy a Christian holiday,” Frum explained to CNN’s Howard Kurtz. “To make this a ground for a cultural conflict, to create a sense in large numbers of people they are being persecuted and attacked at a time when the country is in so much trouble, that’s how this thing is fed.”
“The question is what is the impact on the viewer?” he continued. “And we know, for example, that people that watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events. That’s a correlation that we know.”
Recent polling appears to back up Frum’s assertion.
Fairleigh Dickinson University found last month that “some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.”
“For example, people who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors),” they wrote. “Fox News watchers are also 6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news.”
Watch this video from CNN’s Reliable Sources, broadcast Dec. 11, 2011.
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David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.
 

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^^^^^

all based on real life observations by Willie99, going yard again

Will, rein in this "going yard" shit ... getting as annoying as vitterd and aki with their false knockouts and 286-0 cuntyness
 

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Will, rein in this "going yard" shit ... getting as annoying as vitterd and aki with their false knockouts and 286-0 cuntyness

oh no you didn't

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that's just not right on so many levels

1) there are no similarities between them and me
2) going yard is not arguing I'm always right, I know there are nuances in life. I use it when their arguments are just ridiculously bad as opposed to just really bad
3) I don't think I've used it more than a dozen times, as opposed to using it in just about every thread in one way or another
4) when I use it, it's appropriate
 

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#1 = David Frum is not a conservative

#2 = People who quote Raw Story are self refuting
 

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