Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid

[Tears of Blood]

Really, this is the only place I like to get my news from besides YouTube.

I watch guys like Philip DeFranco and The Amazing Atheist, that's how I get my news. Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, and all the other broadcast networks of their ilk are lying assholes. They have an agenda, they get payed to sensationalize. YouTubers don't.

(Well, that's not exactly true. Talking about something that is a hot topic will get you more views, and thus make the folks at Google like you more, but most of them are actually giving their own opinions, rather than reiterating what the news networks puke out.)

Also, thanks to Matt for researching this and verifying this topic to us.

 

[ProtoChimp]

I'm not from the USA, but here in Blighty we have similar problems with the media. Paticularly newspapers, rather than any particular TV news broadcaster. It's gotten to the point where I only trust the BBC for any news now, because they at least have some semblance of being neutral and unbiased. That is, I've never noticed any sort of bias in the news they report, whereas there's obvious bias with other stations and with most newspapers. Frankly, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I learned long ago that Fox News can't be trusted...

Mate the BBC is what I like to call hidden biased. They pretend to give all the truth but barely ever give all of the information. Nearly EVERY SINGLE news source does either that or the obvious bias like Fox news. If its not one, its probably the other.

 

[loc978]

...just goes to show, never watch the news. Read each story from several opposed sources and you may begin to see part of the situation... but unless you were in the middle of it, you'll never really know what happened.
...goddamn humans and their tendency to believe what other humans say...

 

[Bloodlust69]

You make me lol, not the oh your funny kind, but the kind of lol at your expense. You make retarded statements like 'me and my colleagues know...' etc etc after crapping all over renowned scientists for not knowing 100% of everything everywhere. This is why I firmly believe you are just a fountain of verbal diarrhea (that can type) for true people of science understand that in reality, we can know very little as complete truths.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

You realize the same could be said by a Republican about CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc. It's difference of opinion. Fox is Anti-Obama, everywhere else is Pro-Obama (or it certainly seems that way). This "study" is nothing more than bias meant to spite those who work for the company, and who dare to offer a differing opinion to that of the extremely left-wing dems that run the administration. Quite frankly whatever new service you listen to will have a biased opinion because news is reported on by people. And those people who wright the reports add their bias and opinion to the piece. You say Fox can't be trusted. I say MSNBC can't be either.

Very true mi amigo(a)

 

[emeraldrafael]

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I'm going to guess this is what Democrats will fall back on when they say they should take Fox off the air.

I mean, I'm democrat, but I dont htink that it should be taken off the air.

 

[Romblen]

No surprise there, Fox News is known mostly for its opinion shows like Glenn Beck. In my experience, the actual news segments aren't too bad, still some bias, but I see that with any news station. I am curios as to what the statistics showed for watchers of other stations.

 

[Hairetos]

Wouldn't it be funny if all of these competing news organizations were run by the same people?

Just a thought.

 

[Matt_LRR]

Doing a little looking into the actual study, rather than just the reporting on it listed here - apparently it actually does cover viewers of the other networks, with MSNBC (OMGLIBRUL) coming out of the wash with the most well-informed audience.

I'll report back with verification from the report itself when I can.

(also of note - the points listed in the OP werepoints on which fox vewers didn't just answer incorrectly but on which they had wide margins of misinformation over viewers of other networks. We're talking double digit spreads.)

-m

 

[mr_rubino]

*Snip*

I call bull, I don't even need proof to know that somewhere in the workings of that study was someone fixing the numbers.

It's called Yellow Journalism, slanting stories for your own benefit. Been happening since early 1900's.

Faux News belongs to the Elephants, Clinton News Network belongs to the Donkeys. And the only true unbiased news 50% of what you see and 0% of what you hear.

Woah, CNN is the extremist liberal network? From what I've seen of CNN there's not much of a gap between far right and left in that case.

It isn't hard to see the extreme liberalness of CNN. The minute someone speaking to CNN says something that CNN doesn't like, CNN drowns them out or does something to stop the person from speaking.

Fox News does do it occasionally, but far far less than I have witnessed Liberal news networks doing it.

Pfffft. Hahahahahahaha!
Not that you could actually count the times what you're trying to insinuate happened on more than one hand (I know, the leftist media is hiding all these incidents, right?), but if we ignored all 23:30 of the network's daily schedule besides The O'Reilly Factor, Fox would still beat CNN and probably MSNBC too in the "cut mic, throw *****-fit" category.

Look mate, I know you're contractually-obligated to do the whole "liberal media" thing, but don't say silly things like that if you're just trying to sow doubt by throwing out vague mistrustful statements. Once you start saying things that can be proven wrong, you're moving dangerously out of the "playing on people's emotions and natural skepticism of facts they disagree with" zone, and someone might ask you to elaborate.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

It's America, you can't trust any News Channel over there, I can't stand their voices if I'm perfectly honest.

The BBC was the first and best News Channel in the world, period.

Closely followed by their Australian counterparts, the ABC.

OT: This is why I like Australia. Both our right and left political parties are almost identical. So there isn't any of this stupid "shifty leftist" "untrustworthy right" shit. The entire country of America should just sit down and stop shouting stupid shit at each other.

 

[wrightguy0]

News isn't supposed to have an opinion, it's supposed to report facts and not try to sway anyone's mindset

 

[Sewblon]

Ok, anyone who denies that the economy is getting worse is on a different planet than me. They may have good insights that are useful for those who live on whatever planet they live on. But they are not of much use to me unless I gain an interest in extraterrestrial social sciences. For example, where I live, everyone is either going out of business, unemployed, or just not making money except for the defense contractors.

 

[Bon_Clay]

Ok, anyone who denies that the economy is getting worse is on a different planet than me. They may have good insights that are useful for those who live on whatever planet they live on. But they are not of much use to me unless I gain an interest in extraterrestrial social sciences. For example, where I live, everyone is either going out of business, unemployed, or just not making money except for the defense contractors.

Just because the economy is bad doesn't mean its getting worse. It doesn't even mean the economy isn't improving. Its just improving slowly and from a very low point. Unemployment is much higher than it should be, but it was worse at the beginning of the year.

Just because shit is bad, doesn't mean the government is making it worse. It just means they made it really damn bad previously, and are taking longer than most would wish to fix it.

 

[Sewblon]

Ok, anyone who denies that the economy is getting worse is on a different planet than me. They may have good insights that are useful for those who live on whatever planet they live on. But they are not of much use to me unless I gain an interest in extraterrestrial social sciences. For example, where I live, everyone is either going out of business, unemployed, or just not making money except for the defense contractors.

Just because the economy is bad doesn't mean its getting worse. It doesn't even mean the economy isn't improving. Its just improving slowly and from a very low point. Unemployment is much higher than it should be, but it was worse at the beginning of the year.

Just because shit is bad, doesn't mean the government is making it worse. It just means they made it really damn bad previously, and are taking longer than most would wish to fix it.

What exactly are you using to quantify how good the economy is? We still have mounting public debt and serious inflation don't we?

 

[zoulza]

"The poll of 848 Americans was fielded from November 6 to 15, 2010." Suppose they based it on 5 stations; round it to about 200 polls per station. Doesn't seem like enough to me when you consider the country's population. To the point: I believe there's a lot of misinformation that gets spread on the news networks, but I also believe that articles like this tend to spread misinformation.

200 is plenty. The degree of accuracy in a study is determined by the sample size, not the sample size in relation to the overall population.

 

[My name is Fiction]

It's called Yellow Journalism, slanting stories for your own benefit. Been happening since early 1900's.

Faux News belongs to the Elephants, Clinton News Network belongs to the Donkeys. And the only true unbiased news is 50% of what you see and 0% of what you hear.

"That was quite excellently put, then again adding numbers make everything fancy by about 100%."
^-^

 

[Worgen]

he only true unbiased news is 50% of what you see and 0% of what you hear.

Quoted for truth.

I don't trust any news source these days.

But I'd take Fox News over MSNBC anyday. Actually, fuck them both.

yeah, because smart people make your head hurt, they should be outlawed, just like things that might harm the children, WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!

 

[Worgen]

Doing a little looking into the actual study, rather than just the reporting on it listed here - apparently it actually does cover viewers of the other networks, with MSNBC (OMGLIBRUL) coming out of the wash with the most well-informed audience.

I'll report back with verification from the report itself when I can.

(also of note - the points listed in the OP werepoints on which fox vewers didn't just answer incorrectly but on which they had wide margins of misinformation over viewers of other networks. We're talking double digit spreads.)

-m

well you know what they say, reality has a liberal bias