Yet if Fox News doesn't inform citizens, it does sway their votes

[dajoki]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/opinion/sunday/fox-news-donald-trump.html?te=1&nl=nicholas-kristof&emc=edit_nk_20191116?campaign_id=45&instance_id=13912&segment_id=18862&user_id=ca02b127fa17b8d676fde27e367a12bb®i_id=8965107220191116

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Researchers have found that Fox News isn’t very effective at informing Americans. A 2012 study by Fairleigh Dickinson University reported that watching Fox News had “a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge.”

The study found that those who regularly watched Fox News actually knew less about both domestic and international issues than those who watched no news at all. N.P.R. listeners were particularly well-informed, the study found, but even people who got their news from a comedy program like “The Daily Show” — or who had no news source whatsoever — knew more about current events than Fox viewers.

That may be correlation rather than causation, but at the least it suggests that viewers of Fox News don’t actually learn much.

Yet if Fox News doesn’t inform citizens, it does sway their votes. Two Stanford scholars, Gregory J. Martin and Ali Yurukoglu, published a paper in American Economic Review in 2017 suggesting that without the network, the Republican share of the vote for president would have been 0.46 percentage points lower in 2000, 3.6 points lower in 2004 and 6.3 percentage points lower in 2008.

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In the meantime, Fox News is aggressively defending Trump, joining in smears of public servants and playing a role in history that embarrasses many of us in journalism.

[beachbumbob]

1. I believe this has been self-evident from day one

[RKP5637]

2. Fox News, the reincarnation of Paul Joseph Goebbels! n/t

[UCmeNdc]

3. Propaganda works!

[Funtatlaguy]

4. PDD...Purposely Dumbed Down. That's why Fox News was created.

[Mike 03]

5. It's irresponsible, though, to get all of one's news from one source.

IMO it's a form of negligence to rely just on any single network or even newspaper, as good as some newspapers are. My mother reads the NYT cover to cover every day and she misses stories.