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If there is one thing that the news loves to talk about it is the news. We get it, news, you’re in charge of the news, and you love your job. (I’ve said this before and I will say it again: while I genuinely don’t want any journalists to ever be kidnapped or go missing, it’s also problematic that while people get kidnapped and go missing all the time it is mostly the ones who are journalists who get the front page news stories. See also: white people.) Today is no different. There is a new poll about the news that is in the news that suggests that watching FOX News is worse than watching no news at all. Hahha. Sounds about right. From EW:
For the poll, residents of New Jersey were asked where they find information on current events and were then quizzed on ripped-from-the-headlines topics like the recent uprisings in Syria and Egypt. NPR listeners scored the highest while Fox News viewers scored the lowest. “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,” said professor Dan Cassino.
Yikes. I mean, actually, for real, YIKES. I know there are a few people who read this website whose political leanings are probably more conservative than mine, and I suspect they might take issue with this (and also let’s be realistic, I am simply block quoting a synopsis written by an Entertainment Weekly blogger of a poll that may in and of itself be total bunk, so, you know, take it with a block of salt) but also those people I would like to think are actually the kind of intelligent and engaged thinkers who recognize that regardless of where you are on the spectrum, FOX NEWS STINKS SO BAD. Right? Guys? Christians? They stink, guys. Fuck ‘em!
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This is racist against Foxes. Foxes? Fox? Feexe?
They do look like they stink. Take a shower, FOX News people!
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I always remember how my grandfather would come into the room while I was watching “The Simpsons” and say “that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.” Oh, how the tables have turned.
Dude, you should be careful not to bite the hand that feeds you Werther’s Originals.
Speaking of biting hands and Werther’s Originals:
Gabe And Max Love Fox News (Minus Max)
Holy fuck! Calgary beat Colorado 4-1?!
Kiprusoff was solid between the pipes that night.
More like he was KiprusON.
OK, I’ll start the conversation so we can have a legitimate discussion about this. I agree that fuck ‘em.
counterpoint: I’d rather not.
This is going to cause a lot of Fox News viewers to be seriously taken aback. I mean, they knew about liberal bias in the media, but they never expected it to be this blatant.
Facts have a liberal bias.
My conservative friends know that Fox News is bullshit. It’s the people that don’t realize that Fox News itself, in it’s damned charter, admits to being conservatively biased that trouble me. A) Why would you seek out any news source that flaunts their bias, one way or another, rather than trying to be objective? and B) Fuck ‘em.
I met someone who watched Fox News once. I think his name was Chord.
It’s like the difference between people who know wrestling is fake but like it anyway, and people who like wrestling because they think it’s real. Accept that in this case, the first group is still conservative, which makes them almost just as loathsome (no offense to your friends), though probably less prone to violence.
Also, accept that I don’t apparently know the except and accept.
I don’t know, I think Fox covers all the important stories, like Solyndra and the President’s Muslim heritage and how Debbie Wasserman Shultz is a raging, hateful bitch.
Yes, but she’s a RHBILF.
You guys would have such delicious facetaco babies!
People don’t watch Fox News to become informed about anything, but rather to have their paranoid ramblings confirmed by talking heads shouting drivel. It is more like a 24 hour version of Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” than an actual news station.
Could someone bring this up at Thanksgiving during the inevitable fight over Occupy Wall Street and tell me what happens? I’m not kidding, I’m having dinner with friends… because I’m a heathen hippie liberal.
Occupy the dining table, 1% of the relatives have 99% of the opinions
And only one of us knows how to make that delightful vegan peanut stew. Oh you meant my uncle, the Republican.
I think you accidentally put the words “delightful” and “vegan” together. I can only assume you’re playing some sort of Videogum Madlibs.
Uncle Dan?
Unfortunately, all of my family members are liberal like myself. Darn, I feel like I’m missing out.
How has no one commented on the screen grab for this post? That is a funny screen grab!
If you listen closely you can hear William F. Buckley Jr. spinning in his grave.
As a native of New Jersey, I recognize a New Jersey slam when I see one, even if I have to read between the lines a bit. Allow me:
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For the poll, residents ofNew Jerseywere asked where they find information on current events and were then quizzed on ripped-from-the-headlines topics like the recent uprisings in Syria and Egypt. NPR listeners scored the highest while Fox News viewersscored the lowest. “The resultshows us that thereissomething about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who donotwatch anynews at all,” said professorDan Cassino.This just made me giggle.
I just wanted to say that Peter Doocy’s Facebook profile picture is of him with Bradley Cooper. He’s grinning a lot, because of Bradley Cooper.
I took a look at the actual source paper for this, and it showed that Fox News watchers consistently had the largest % of “don’t know” answers. Which is strange because a Fox audience is stereotyped as aggressively opinionated, and yet it seems that they actually have no idea what they’re aggressively opinionated about.
I think it speaks to some of the issue behind this result in that, it’s not just Fox News actively misinforming people, but also misinformed people (or those who do not know) choosing to watch Fox News.
Knowledge is, essentially, an attitude. It’s like the Herman Cain “I know everything I need to know” approach.
This kind of stuff is fascinating to me if only because I LOVE to answer all polls all the time. Gallup called me the other day and their questions were worded so poorly that I couldn’t explicitly answer anything with a definitive yes or no… except that I thought the Republicans in Congress were making the world a worse place (actually a question).
My dad was helping my grandfather choose a Medicare supplement plan recently, and my grandfather started bitching about Obama socializing medicine. My dad kept calmly explaining that Medicare is a socialized plan, and that “Obamacare” is just trying to ensure that healthcare is available to everyone. He kept spouting off about how Obama wants to raise everyone’s taxes, hates business and growth, and a bunch of other Fox News gibberish.
My dad kept countering everything he said, and finally got fed up and just loudly said, “STOP WATCHING FOX NEWS! YOU’RE GETTING FALSE INFORMATION!” I’m kind of jealous, because that had to be a pretty satisfying outburst.
But anyway, my grandpa still watches Fox News.
You are all eating up this ‘study’ as unquestioningly, and with the same self sure ignorance, as the neo-con stooges you ironically feel a sense of superiority over. That’s what’s really funny
I think you make a good point. More information should be gathered before putting faith in any study. On the other hand, if you felt the study was flawed, your post would have been a good place to state why. Hopefully the omission of such evidence was not a result of the same lazy lack of research being railed against.
I was a bit surprised that 74% of people surveyed got news from a local paper in the last week, more than from any other source. I guess it’s a good time to get into the newspaper business!
Results such as those give me some reservations, but I don’t pretend to know enough about polls and studies to really be able to evaluate the quality of this one. Hopefully a larger scale poll that deals with more than just New Jersey will follow. Changing the criteria of having to have received news from any of the given sources just once during the past week may affect outcomes as well.
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