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Fox News makes you dumber

beebobby

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I surf over to foxnews occasionally when I want to see what thinly veiled racist phrases are currently in vogue with the fox folks on their comment section.
 

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Must therefore be the dumbing of a nation since it is such an immensly popular and watched network while those networks that 'make you smarter' are loosing audience. Maybe by your definition of smart/dumb, many prefer to be dumb. Call it what you like everyone obviously does not agree and they will continue to watch what they choose to.
 

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Must therefore be the dumbing of a nation since it is such an immensly popular and watched network while those networks that 'make you smarter' are loosing audience. Maybe by your definition of smart/dumb, many prefer to be dumb. Call it what you like everyone obviously does not agree and they will continue to watch what they choose to.

Who are they loosing their audiences upon?

Regardless of whether you agree or not, this is not the first such study to show a strong correlation between fox news and being under informed. One can draw the conclusion that either Fox leads to you being dumb, or that dumb people like Fox. Either way, it's not a pretty picture, especially if it is your only source of news.
 

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Rush, Fox, and Drudge.....man, nobody even comes close.

“We expect that watching the news should help people learn, but the most popular of the national media sources – Fox, CNN, MSNBC – seem to be the least informative.”
Funny how you isolate Fox News....nice try.

....NEXT!!!
 

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Rush, Fox, and Drudge.....man, nobody even comes close.

Funny how you isolate Fox News....nice try.

....NEXT!!!

If you read the paper, you find that, for international issues, a person who uses Fox or MSNBC is worse than someone who listens to "no news" while someone watching "the daily show" or listening to NPR are much better informed. For domestic news, Fox is the only news source associated with people being less informed than someone who watches no news at all! NPR still tops the list, but what's really sad is how bad the numbers are, overall.
 

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They're apparently too "dumb" to doctor recordings... unlike MSNBC.

Which is the second-lowest scoring news source. They're both bad, Fox just manages to be a bit worse (or attracts dumber viewers).

The Daily Show did quite well, probably because of this:
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Who is it that OWNS Fox? oh! oh! oh! I know! I know! Rupert Murdoch, thats it! An Aussie is he not? the things that make you go Hmmmmm.
 

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Which is the second-lowest scoring news source. They're both bad, Fox just manages to be a bit worse (or attracts dumber viewers).

The Daily Show did quite well, probably because of this:
jon-stewart-journalist-appalled.jpg



Thats the problem with America now. The Daily Show is not a creditable news source. It's a comedy show hosted by an admited socialist. Ask all of the occupy people though, they will Quote Stewart, word for word.
 

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If you read the paper, you find that, for international issues, a person who uses Fox or MSNBC is worse than someone who listens to "no news" while someone watching "the daily show" or listening to NPR are much better informed. For domestic news, Fox is the only news source associated with people being less informed than someone who watches no news at all! NPR still tops the list, but what's really sad is how bad the numbers are, overall.
I don't watch any of the national news shows....shows. I watch CNBC....working to be a 1%er.

Though, I do vistit the UK news sites to get the truth about American politics.
 

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Thats the problem with America now. The Daily Show is not a creditable news source. It's a comedy show hosted by an admited socialist. Ask all of the occupy people though, they will Quote Stewart, word for word.

Kinda like so-called "tea party" types quoting Limbaugh.
 

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Thats the problem with America now. The Daily Show is not a creditable news source. It's a comedy show hosted by an admited socialist. Ask all of the occupy people though, they will Quote Stewart, word for word.

You know what the difference is between Stewart and Fox? The former admits to being a comedian, and doesn't try to be a valuable news source. The latter claims to be a valuable news source, and doesn't claim to be full of comedians.

Yet despite that, The Daily Show manages to fit more truth and actual news into its comedy program than Fox does in an entire day of broadcasting. Part of that comes from Stewart's agenda being comedy, not politics, despite your hysterical claims of "socialist."
 

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I feel like I have been raped and called names....

I'm really dumb for watching some of the shows on Fox then. I don't watch or like all the shows but I do like some of them; and as far as the news goes I can watch any station I just don't believe 100% of what any of them say.

Most of the shows on fox don't claim to be news shows, O'Rielly, Hannity, and others don't claim to be NEWS but are entertainment bits and actually tell you that. If you are dumb enough to believe everything someone tells you then your life will be pretty interesting.

I like to make my own mind up.
 

zekester

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I watch them all

I watch them all, but I form my own opinion....

You cannot base your belief's on a TV show.....have the balls to do it on your own!
 

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http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/final.pdf

Want to know less and be less accurate when answering questions about the current state of the world? Watch Fox.

... while exposure to partisan sources, such as Fox News and MSNBC, has a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge... .

Exposure to Tawnos also makes you dumber, apparently.

Both ends of these extremes, Fox on one side and MSNBC on the other, is a problem.

I like BBC and PBS for both sides of the story.

Tawnos if you are going to quote somebody make sure you quote the whole quote.
 
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