...Who Don't Watch Any News: Study


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#undefined


Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/



Not only are they censoring what we see in the media, they are also planting erroneous information.

11/23/2011 12:46:10 PM

you don't say?

I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

11/23/2011 12:48:34 PM

11/23/2011 12:52:07 PM

I, too, try to make informed decisions on major news outlets based on the findings of some pudunk college in New Jersey.

[Edited on November 23, 2011 at 12:55 PM. Reason : .]

11/23/2011 12:52:38 PM

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"BASED ON UPON"

11/23/2011 12:54:01 PM

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"SOME PUDUNK COLLEGE "

11/23/2011 12:54:34 PM

For real, a sampling of New Jersey natives isn't representative of the American public at large.

See Jersey Shore.

11/23/2011 1:00:32 PM

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"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."

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/dec10/Misinformation_Dec10_rpt.pdf

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"The extent of Americans’ misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news. Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions. Those who receive most of their news from NPR or PBS are less likely to have misperceptions. These variations cannot simply be explained as a result of differences in the demographic characteristics of each audience, because these variations can also be found when comparing the demographic subgroups of each audience. "

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/IraqMedia_Oct03/IraqMedia_Oct03_rpt.pdf

11/23/2011 1:04:46 PM

You libs try so hard to discredit conservatives because you can't discredit the truth they speak.

It's a hard knock life for you guys.

11/23/2011 1:14:44 PM

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"You libs try so hard to discredit conservatives because you can't discredit the truth they speak. It's a hard knock life for you guys."

wat

11/23/2011 1:26:46 PM

On the other hand, the recent survey with MSNBC resulted in near Einstein-like levels of thought process and cognitive analysis.



I agree with my_self

11/23/2011 1:27:01 PM

672 adults in Jersey is not a good enough sampling of people to make such broad generalizations.

This study was a complete waste of time.

11/23/2011 2:08:56 PM

It's not even a study, it's just a poll.

11/23/2011 2:20:47 PM

oh look another thread where people are bashing conservatives

11/23/2011 2:22:42 PM

11/23/2011 2:23:17 PM

oh shit. geniusxboy is pissed. you can tell especially when they pic-bomb the same thing over and over again.

its funny b/c it gives it away that you obviously turn it off to read everything i say. lol

11/23/2011 2:26:12 PM

I would say anyone who get their news from only one source is an idiot.

11/23/2011 2:27:03 PM

More emotional yelling from conservatives defending Fox News and no evidence to back it up.

11/23/2011 2:50:02 PM

is it less viewers or fewer viewers

3 million fewer viewers

11/23/2011 2:52:30 PM

600 some people in New Jersey proves nothing either mind you.

I wonder if part of it is a focus on domestic issues on the part of FOX news?

[Edited on November 23, 2011 at 2:54 PM. Reason : ]

11/23/2011 2:54:14 PM

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"oh shit. geniusxboy is pissed. you can tell especially when they pic-bomb the same thing over and over again. "

It has nothing do to with mimicking you. At all. I must be pissed. Especially when they pic-bomb the same thing over and over again. Not copying you whatsoever.

11/23/2011 3:00:12 PM

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YOU GOTTA

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11/23/2011 3:00:59 PM

pack byran rides the cain? Who knew!

11/23/2011 3:01:47 PM

oh cool a thread about huffingtonpostwalmart writing about a 'study' that shows foxnewstarget is an inferior store



i bet the OP really put a lot of thought behind his reasons for posting this invaluable information to society.

11/23/2011 3:25:15 PM

TWW is insufferable.

11/23/2011 3:33:35 PM

Cool post pack_bryan. You have successfully changed a sentence into something stupid for the 3,736th time.

11/23/2011 3:36:09 PM

Yes, preach the truth about how Reaganomics, trickle-down theory, and supply-side economics have done so well for our country historically! IT WORKS THEY ARE MANIPULATING THE DATA AND PLANTED THOSE GHETTOS AND POOR PEOPLE! Keynes was a damn fool! The laffer curve is a farce and a smokescreen! The south shall rise again!

FOX NEWS IS THE ONLY CHANNEL SPEAKING THE TRUTH!

11/23/2011 3:46:26 PM

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"You libs try so hard to discredit conservatives because you can't discredit the truth they speak. It's a hard knock life for you guys."

their lies discredit themselves

11/23/2011 4:01:24 PM

^^lol u mad?

since when did all the open racism flaming start with the left? we get it. you hate conservatives and southern white people generally

[Edited on November 23, 2011 at 4:03 PM. Reason : ,]

11/23/2011 4:03:18 PM

11/23/2011 4:11:23 PM

wats goin on itt

11/23/2011 4:13:30 PM

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/fox-news-successfully-creates-climate-confusion-but-only-among-conservatives.ars

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"A while back, a memo surfaced that reportedly came from a Fox News executive, in which he directed his staff to always present opposing views on something we can essentially regard as a fact: our planet has been getting warmer. There has been plenty of anecdotal indications that this strategy has been carried out, including a truly bizarre incident in which Bill Nye, on the channel in order to discuss volcanic activity on the Moon, was asked if these volcanoes raised doubts about climate change. But it hasn't been clear whether these incidents add up to a clear pattern and, perhaps more importantly, whether they actually caused the Fox viewership to become more confused about the state of climate science. Now, some academics have done an exhaustive evaluation of Fox broadcasts (along with those of CNN and NBC) and demonstrated that there is a systematic bias against presenting the scientific community's conclusions on Fox. And, at least among those with a conservative bent, it works. These viewers are far less likely to understand the state of the science, or even accept the reality that our planet has gotten warmer. [...] Most of the public isn't getting its information on climate change by reading the statements released by scientific societies or reading the IPCC reports. Instead, they're getting it from the media, which brings us back to the possibility of biased presentation mentioned at the top of this article. To determine the degree to which cable news channels are feeding the public an inaccurate picture, a group of researchers looked at transcripts of every news broadcast in 2007 and 2008, searching for keywords like climate on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. With 270 transcripts in hand, they started looking at presentation, coding each show by the degree to which it reflected reality in three ways: the reality of changing climate, its attribution to human influences, and the degree of scientific consensus on the topic. Any guests on news programs were coded in the same way. There was a very clear pattern. "Although Fox discussed climate change most often, the tone of its coverage was disproportionately dismissive," the authors concluded. The dismissiveness was present in almost every category. A third of Fox's broadcasts rejected the reality of climate change, while only 21 percent accepted it (no other network came close to those figures). Almost four times as many broadcasts on Fox claimed there was no consensus as accepted that one existed; the exact opposite was true on the other networks. A similar pattern was apparent when it comes to the issue of attribution. Fox was also selective about its guests, nearly half of which doubted the existence of climate change (about 40 percent accepted it). On CNN and MSNBC, the figures were 9 and 15 percent, which is much closer to the level of acceptance by the scientific community. So, it appears that Fox has adopted a policy of not just ignoring the best scientific information available, but actively attempting to counter it. Neither of the other major cable networks are doing anything of the sort when it comes to the climate. [...] Does this disproportionately biased coverage actually have an effect? Here, the authors turned to survey data, obtaining information from over 2,000 US adults about their political persuasions, viewing habits, and thoughts on climate change. As with other polls, a bit over half accepted that humans were triggering a warming of the climate. But they were even less certain of the state of the scientific community, with less than half realizing that most scientists agreed on the matter. On a superficial level, these numbers matched up well with news viewing habits. People who watched Fox News were much less likely to accept that climate change was happening. In contrast, those who watched CNN or MSNBC were far more likely to accept it. But those who analyze these issues have suggested that there are two possible explanations for this effect. One is causal; getting regularly exposed to a perspective via the media will ultimately lead you to adopting that perspective. The alternative explanation involves selectivity in information sources. Those who are already convinced that climate change is nonsense may choose to watch Fox because it supports their conclusions. As it turns out, the survey contained information that can help address this issue. Over 40 percent of the self-identified Democrats sometimes watch Fox, while 17 percent of Republicans tune in to CNN and MSNBC. When the numbers for those viewers were broken out, two different trends were apparent. Among Democrats, it didn't matter how often they watched Fox; their acceptance of climate change remained roughly steady. Republicans who watched MSNBC and CNN, however, had a much higher acceptance than their peers who maintained a strict diet of Fox. "Democrats are relatively unchanged in their beliefs as a function of cable news use," the authors conclude, "whereas the beliefs of Republicans depend on whether they watch Fox News." The authors looked at some measures of how ideologically committed the Republicans were, and found that this could account for some, but not all of the effect. The authors note that the behavior of Fox viewers is consistent with what they term "biased processing" (which seems to be another term for motivated reasoning), as "Fox News' dismissive view of global warming appears to resonate most with those who share the network's partisan perspective." But that seems to oversimplify matters, as at least a subset of Fox's target audience were open to other ideas, and showed the most dramatic difference in opinion when they were exposed to them (the Republican MSNBC/CNN viewers). At the same time, the experience of Democratic Fox viewers indicates that at least some portion of the population won't simply accept anything the media feeds them. About the only thing that can be concluded from the study is that, when Fox News misinforms its viewers, a substantial percentage of them happily go along with it—as the authors put this, "To the extent that Fox News presents a different view of reality than does CNN or MSNBC, the knowledge and opinions of the networks' respective audiences will likewise tend to polarize." But this isn't the first study to show that (others are cited in the study). The disturbing thing here is that it's not simply a different view of reality; Fox is disputing reality itself. The change in our climate and the scientific community's widespread attribution of it to human influences are both factual, yet Fox has managed to help foster doubts about these facts. This is made even more disturbing by the fact that they didn't actually have to do this. Facts don't necessarily dictate a specific policy response, and there is plenty of ground to argue policy from a partisan perspective. But, rather than focus on the policy, the network has chosen to dispute the facts themselves."

11/23/2011 4:48:54 PM

Yep, not reading that. Liberals

11/23/2011 11:45:46 PM

Not long now before:

OMG NO WAI A CONSERVATARD WOULD WANT THAT CAR

11/23/2011 11:54:32 PM

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"Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People"

mfw title is a paradox

11/25/2011 2:54:04 PM

Only liberals don't watch Fox News

11/25/2011 3:15:23 PM

Critics of President Obama felt little holiday cheer after the president did not thank God in his Thanksgiving-themed weekly Internet address. They immediately took to Twitter and the Internet to voice anger and disbelief.

"Holy cow! Is that one screwed up or what?" columnist Sherman Frederick of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote in a Thanksgiving-morning blog post.

"Somebody ought to remind Obama (and his speechwriter) that when Americans sit down around a meal today and give thanks, they give thanks to God."

Over on the website of Fox News Radio, radio host Todd Starnes also took issue.

11/25/2011 7:38:15 PM

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"Holy cow!"

Note to self. Do not swear by heaven or Earth when denouncing someone for not giving thanks directly to God during a speech.

11/25/2011 7:40:55 PM

THANKSGIVING IS NOW A CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY! LET EVERYONE KNOW!

11/25/2011 7:43:40 PM

If he thanked God, they would have called him muslim anyways. Whatev.

11/25/2011 8:18:26 PM

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""Holy cow!""

Is this in reference to the Golden Calf idol God told the jews not to worship?

11/25/2011 8:19:44 PM