Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
22-11-2011, 14:33
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Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
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Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, explained in a statement, "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. Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."
This isn't the first study that has found that Fox News viewers more misinformed in comparison to others. Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics.
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22-11-2011, 14:40
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Re: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
Never, Never trust Fox News, or anything run by News Corp!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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22-11-2011, 14:45
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Re: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
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Never, Never trust Fox News, or anything run by News Corp!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mean while in other news it has been confirmed that bears poo in the woods 
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22-11-2011, 14:49
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Apparently, it has been leaked by sources in the know that Pope Benedict has professed a prediliction for Catholicism.....
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22-11-2011, 14:51
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Re: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
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Apparently, it has been leaked by sources in the know that Pope Benedict has professed a prediliction for Catholicism.....
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Well i never !
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22-11-2011, 19:39
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Re: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
Fox news is for entertainment purposes only,
Hannity
O'reilly Factor
Fox & friends
are some of the funniest programs you'll find anywhere on your EPG
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22-11-2011, 19:45
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Dont suprise me wonder if there is also slight issue in this country as newscorp afterall own many papers. By selective news or skewed news to there way thinking. Way they got government in the pocket even after this investigation doubt things will be different. Time numbs the brain they say.
Probably more than ever reason for sky to be kept away from murdock.
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22-11-2011, 19:52
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According to Family Guy, even the truth, when said by Fox News, is a lie.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrWtAjfVLs
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22-11-2011, 21:49
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Re: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
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Dont suprise me wonder if there is also slight issue in this country as newscorp afterall own many papers. By selective news or skewed news to there way thinking. Way they got government in the pocket even after this investigation doubt things will be different. Time numbs the brain they say.
Probably more than ever reason for sky to be kept away from murdock.
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23-11-2011, 03:46
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I liken watching Fox News to a visit to the zoo.
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23-11-2011, 05:40
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Re: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
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I liken watching Fox News to a visit to the zoo.
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Yes a lot of noise and ballyhoo and not a lot of substance but plenty of exaggerated political bias.
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