Friday, December 17, 2010

SHOCKER! Study proves Fox News Viewers are The Most Misinformed


It really doesn't take a study to prove this, most of us have common sense. However, World Public Opinion.org revealed a lot of info besetting this result...
Those who watched Fox News almost daily were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely), most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points), the economy is getting worse (26 points), most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points), the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points), their own income taxes have gone up (14 points), the auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points), when TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points) and that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points). 

The effect was also not simply a function of partisan bias, as people who voted Democratic and watched Fox News were also more likely to have such misinformation than those who did not watch it--though by a lesser margin than those who voted Republican.


There were cases with some other news sources as well. Daily consumers of MSNBC and public broadcasting (NPR and PBS) were higher (34 points and 25 points respectively) in believing that it was proven that the US Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates. Daily watchers of network TV news broadcasts were 12 points higher in believing that TARP was signed into law by President Obama, and 11 points higher in believing that most Republicans oppose TARP. 
These people has to know they are being lied to... No, they don't. Too ignorant to wake the frak up

4 comments:

Cubby said...

Worse than this, I saw another study that showed that when people try to give corrected facts to FOX viewers, the FOX viewers will only dig in their heels and believe the original misinformation more.

kayman said...

There is a phrase for this, belligerent ignorance.

Anonymous said...

Abdication of responsibility for thinking is what it really happens to be.

Daij said...

lol @ belligerent ignorance. gotta love it.

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