The MORE Fox News you watch, the LESS you know. An actual study released.

[Lex]

"The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) is a joint program of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and the Center on Policy Attitudes. PIPA undertakes research on American attitudes in both the public and in the policymaking community toward a variety of international and foreign policy issues."

PIPA Study

PAGE 14:

"Variations in Misperceptions According to Source of News

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."


For more info see Pages 14 and 15 of that study linked above.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Yeah, dated Oct 2, 2003

in the interest of full disclosure

[Lex]

3. Oh, so it's changed since then?

In the interest of full disclosure, of course.

[BlueEyedSon]

8. No, its probly worse. But it's nothing new.

[Lex]

9. Hmmm . . . well, I'd venture that many here didn't know of the study.

So it might be new info to some.

[OneTwentyoNine]

2. Huh?? FOX viewers know SH is responsible for 9/11

You mean watching O'Really makes you less informed?? I'm shocked I tell ya...


David

[theorist]

4. They also tend to more sure that they are correct. n/t

[Lex]

5. That's what makes them good little brownshirts: their certainty

and absolute belief in whatever Fox News tells them.

It's like Fox News is their mommy and "mommy loves me and is never wrong, so stop saying that!" So scary.

[GiovanniC]

6. And More Likely To Be Certain That Mainstream Media Isn't Reporting

All Iraq's huge arrays of nuclear weapons, the vats and drums of chemical and biological agents, Saddam Hussein's Magical Death Ray and his super-squad of mutant assasins.

Only Fox News will tell the truth.

[theorist]

7. In other words, "Get Your War On!"

I love the sig line!