Study: Fox News Viewers Misinformed

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To perhaps nobody's surprise, a study released this week finds that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of any news consumers.

The University of Maryland study, called "Misinformation and the 2010 Election," looked at "variations in misinformation by exposure to news sources," among other things, and specifically newspapers and news magazines (in print and online), network TV news broadcasts, NPR and PBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.

The study found that daily Fox News viewers, regardless of political party, were "significantly" more likely than non-viewers to erroneously 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)

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[torca1950ancola]

FOX news is just telling their redneck,backwards,religious viewers what they want to hear.That Obama is the Anti-Christ,socialist,marxist,­muslim Kenyan that whants to take white peoples money and give to the blacks.

[hyaenidae]

Even career journalists who work for Fox are now saying it: they just make stuff up. Bad for the Republic, devastating for the American people.

rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/11/fox­-news-employee-stuff-up/

[motter28218]

I don't watch FOX but this "study" is crap, not that FOX viewers are idiots, cuz they are, but to say the stimulus created jobs is merely a matter of perspective, as for healthcare reform - be more specific, what "healthcare reform" are we talking about? - Obamacare, you can't tell me with a straight face that it won't increase the deficit. Also, I can show you pay stubs which will show you without a doubt my income taxes have gone up.

[SimXLive]

These two are so stunned they don't even know the difference between intelligence and knowledge!

[drewnut]

reality has a liberal bias

-Colbert

[spacer125]

who made the subtitles? o.O

[Dragodemon000]

I watch Fox News for the laughs...

Oh, you didn't know? Fox News now has to brand itself as 'News Related Entertainment'.

[padude64]

men watch Fox news and are so freakin dumb!

[Leones44]

@timliddledesign You do know the lion's share of jobs lost under Obama were in the first 6 months of his presidency? You also know that we have now had 22 consecutive months of private sector job growth? You do know that the bail out has saved the American auto industry? All this despite a record number (no exaggeration, look it up) of filibusters during his time in office. You guys live in your own world. Obama 2012!

[Leones44]

@chrisholley1975 MSNBC does NOT put out misinformation. Yes, MSNBC has a progressive slant to its reporting but to say they put out misinformation with the same frequency as Fox is not even close to representing reality. People have a tendency to think just bc both networks are biaeds in one direction or the other then both must be equally guilty of putting out misinformation and therefore its a wash. I'm telling you its not. Fox is the king of misinformation.

[keefmeister77]

I see no mention here of CBS News, which tried to throw the 2000 and the 2004 presidential elections, nor of Newsweek which knowingly published a story which falsely accused our troops at Gitmo of flushing Korans down toilets, nor of the New York Times which up until about 3 years ago used to publish every terrorist attack on the front page. Didn't see any of that.