Fox News Viewers Are Retarded

[Flagg]

HUFFPO

Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study

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

The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that "people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government" and "6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government" compared to those who watch no news.

Overall, 53% of all respondents knew that Egyptians successfully overthrew Hosni Mubarak and 48% knew that Syrians have yet to overthrow their government.

Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, explained in a statement, "Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News. Rather, 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."

This isn't the first study that has found that Fox News viewers more misinformed in comparison to others. Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics.

Too bad you can't use false advertising laws to make them relabel their channel so they can't use the word "News".

[Lonestar]

Too bad you can't use false advertising laws to make them relabel their channel so they can't use the word "News".

Hey Flagg, the HuffPo story didn't cover it...who came in second out of least knowlegable, out of curiosity?

[evilsoup]

Did this study look into how knowledgeable people who watch other news are, or is it just a load of liberal wank?

[Lonestar]

Did this study look into how knowledgeable people who watch other news are, or is it just a load of liberal wank?

It did, and I know the answer. I'm just waiting to see if Flagg will go out and see who the second least knowledgeable group of cable news watchers are.

[Hint: I've already trolled Dalton with the answer elsewhere. DON'T WATCH CABLE NEWS KIDS. Listen to your local NPR station!]

[KhorneFlakes]

To be honest, you have to be at least partially retarded to be able to survive watching Fox News for more than ten minutes.

[evilsoup]

I agree, the only possible explanation for people having different political beliefs to me is that they are mentally sub-normal.

[KhorneFlakes]

I'm referring to the news anchor. I was never able to stand the news anchor. Ever.

The stupidity hurts my brain.

[evilsoup]

And yet when Flagg posts retarded, dishonest shit like this you nod your head happily.

Fox News viewers are from the same political position as the news station, so they nod and smile to the retarded and dishonest shit on Fox News.

I know they're frustrating (and some American right-wingers are certifiable), but just dismissing them as 'retards' will inevitably lead you to underestimate your political opponents.

[KhorneFlakes]

I don't underestimate them. What they say sometimes hurts my brain when I'm not really in the mood for it. By hurting my brain, I also mean that some of the more confusing shit they pull gives me headaches.

And I'm autistic, so headaches + mild ASD = bad.

[evilsoup]

I can understand that, I personally never watch Fox News except in clips on the internet demonstrating how shitty it is. But you called the viewers retarded, and I disagree with that evaluation. They might be misguided and ill-educated (though of course, that's not all of them, and I know plenty of wishy-washy liberals who are just as ignorant as their conservative counterparts), but 'retarded'? No.

[KhorneFlakes]

I don't think you're getting what I mean anyway. I'm saying that the Fox News channel is full of shit hurts my brain, and likely other people's brains as well. I didn't say that everyone who watches Fox News is retarded.

[evilsoup]

To be honest, you have to be at least partially retarded to be able to survive watching Fox News for more than ten minutes.

[KhorneFlakes]

...Right. I'm not gonna bother. Reading that again, I just realized I've gone and failed to get what I actually mean across. Again.


This is why I hate headaches.

[Ryan Thunder]

And yet when Flagg posts retarded, dishonest shit like this you nod your head happily.

Its Different When We Do It.

[SpaceMarine93]

To be frank, this is quite obvious.

[NoXion]

To be frank, this is quite obvious.

Indeed. The first time I saw Fox News for myself I was like "this shit is supposed to be the news?". All the pompous, bombastic CGI swagger typical of USian news broadcasts is dialled up to 11 on there, and the resulting effect is a combination of a sense of unreality (the whole broadcast looks like something out of a film or computer game) plus some serious dystopian overtones, especially if the subject has anything to do with typical Fox viewers' pet hates.

[Flagg]

Too bad you can't use false advertising laws to make them relabel their channel so they can't use the word "News".

Hey Flagg, the HuffPo story didn't cover it...who came in second out of least knowlegable, out of curiosity?

Probably MSNBC as all they cover is politics 24/7.

[Ryan Thunder]

Uh, in case anybody gets the wrong idea, my comment was meant to be facetious...

[Flagg]

And yet when Flagg posts retarded, dishonest shit like this you nod your head happily.

Fox News viewers are from the same political position as the news station, so they nod and smile to the retarded and dishonest shit on Fox News.

I know they're frustrating (and some American right-wingers are certifiable), but just dismissing them as 'retards' will inevitably lead you to underestimate your political opponents.

Did you read the article, retard? It states that they are less knowledgeable about facts. It has nothing to do with ideology, it has to do with the fact that they are ignorant of the world around them. Go fuck a horse.

[Admiral Drason]

I love that people who watch the Daily show get it right far more than the other cable news sources.

[Mr. Coffee]

By the same reasoning Flagg demands Fox no longer should call themselves "news" I demand The Daily Show should no longer call themselves "comedy".

[Dalton]

Probably MSNBC as all they cover is politics 24/7.

We don't call ourselves The Place for Politics for nothing.

Seriously, we do cover a lot of general news over the course of the day, but primaries are heating up and we're shifting gears a little.

[Flagg]

Probably MSNBC as all they cover is politics 24/7.

We don't call ourselves The Place for Politics for nothing.

Seriously, we do cover a lot of general news over the course of the day, but primaries are heating up and we're shifting gears a little.

Well yeah, you guys are up front about being a relatively liberal politics oriented news outlet. Fox is a rightwing propaganda channel that claims to be fair and balanced.

[Count Chocula]

You haven't answered Lonestar's question, Flagg.

[Bakustra]

You haven't answered Lonestar's question, Flagg.

Probably MSNBC as all they cover is politics 24/7.