Surprise! Fox News Viewers Most Misinformed

[Gerry]

Study Finds Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed

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)

read full report here

[Tia Wood]

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say!

[ksinclair]

i don't understand. Isnt Glenn Beck on Fox? I thought he was educatering people every day?

[NexSite]

SO what does this have to do with domain names? No really. This is a domain forum.

In my own survey, I want to ask, WTF does a thread like this have to do with domain names and why is it posted on a domain forum? Just answer the question.


There are 100 well known political partisan biased blogs for you to go spew your lefty and righty views about the media and politics.

[ksinclair]

SO what does this have to do with domain names? No really. This is a domain forum.

In my own survey, I want to ask, WTF does a thread like this have to do with domain names and why is it posted on a domain forum? Just answer the question.


There are 100 well known political partisan biased blogs for you to go spew your lefty and righty views about the media and politics.

Why dont you look what forum the thread is in - then you will understand it is allowed.

Beyond that, misc discussions can sometimes generate ideas for a new domain or blog or service. It might be a useful service to have a website
that showed error or bias in news stories, for example.

[Gerry]

In my own survey, I want to ask, WTF does a thread like this have to do with domain names and why is it posted on a domain forum? Just answer the question.

Grrr...says the eight year old member with a zero trader rating.

Grrr...says the member that, prior to today, when was the last time he posted???

Grrr...says the member that last posted 04-08-2010 09:11 PM in an, egad! ....political thread.

[H2FC]

must be a fox watcher

[Bill F.]

"Fox viewers are stoopid," I get it.
Any group of people is more likely to erroneously believe things that support their belief system. All of these questions covered points
that support the views of many Fox viewers, therefore more Fox viewers "erroneously" believe them.
Try an equivalent survey targeting the beliefs Jon Stewart viewers, with questions that ask about commonly held beliefs of the left, and then you've got a discussion.
I won't even get into the questionable determination of the "correct" answers. This is a very poor survey.

[NexSite]

Yes indeed, and I noticed you were also involved in that same thread. Maybe thats why I dont come around as much. If I want to talk politics, Ill go to a political blog. I check in here and see politics and it is a total turn off. My zero trader rating? My business model just might be a little different than yours. I dont find these forums the best place to buy and sell domain names. Quite the contrary. What I do find them useful for is information about domains, monetizing, dev and such. Thank God I dont have to hang out here all the time to sell domain names. I did that a lot in the early days but eventually you learn or you go broke.

I do watch fox news but not daily. Do they lean right. You bet. All our news services have bias now. Thats how it is. So if your a conservative, you will naturally gravitate to a conservative leaning news source. See, Im an independant. I have many liberal friends. I am a union member too. And a small biz owner. So considering this, you learn to identify the good and bad of both fringes. Thats why I dont like Limbaugh, Hannity, Shultz , Olberman, Mattews or MSNBC in general. Nothing but hatemongers the bunch of them. Just like anything else. The truth is in the numbers. MSNBC insults peoples intelligence, so their audience is tiny compared to fox. FOX beats all of them combined. So its no surprise to me that your so called survey by college kids (liberal college kids) finds a anti fox bias. They simply couldnt find any MSNBC viewers to answer the questions.

[jdk]

Interesting

[Gerry]

Yes indeed, and I noticed you were also involved in that same thread.

my god. Eight month later you are still following me?

Grrr...grrr.

[NexSite]

I like to keep it interesting. I just want to clarify on my comment about not buying or selling here. I only sell to end users and they dont come here. I also generally buy from people who have been sitting on idle names for quite some time. It takes a lot of research and patience on both ends. I did the forum thing a lot in the early days but found that my time was better spent looking for gold in discreet places from yesteryear. I have found treasure troves, servers loaded with antiquated names from the early days just sitting there with no nothing going on, and many times the owners are hard to find. Success is rare but very rewarding sometimes. Sometimes you feeel so helpless watching a name drop. I saw one go for over 150k at auction. Could not locate the owner. Just vanished. But I have bought some gold too. Just not like it used to be around here before PPC and all.

Me and Doc. Maybe we should start our own political blog eh?

Im laughing because now, I get the emails that there is a response, and low and behold here I am.

[ksinclair]

Nexsite, you have some interesting comments - you should post more often. I agree, most news sources are biased. But bias is different then dumbing down (Fox) or being manipulative (Glenn Beck, also Fox). I like to read BBCnews.com. I also check aljazeera, though it has an obvious bias; it can be interesting.

Doc com: keep posting, you have good stuff.

Domainace, are you a republican?

[Gerry]

Domainace, are you a republican?

I am registered GOP. But I know right from wrong.

[Bill F.]

I'm an independent, but probably closer to Libertarian - government is a necessary evil that has to be kept to a minimum. I live in Japan, so no Fox news, and I can't bear to watch CNN for more than a few minutes.

I think the reality will set in, and the US will be playing catch-up to Asia for a long time to come. Sad, but that's how I see it. So far as ignorance, most people are ignorant of politics and history everywhere, it's not unique to the US, much less Fox viewers.

[NexSite]

"playing catch up to asia for a long time" etc. Please elaborate.

[DomainsInc]

Yes indeed, and I noticed you were also involved in that same thread. Maybe thats why I dont come around as much. If I want to talk politics, Ill go to a political blog. I check in here and see politics and it is a total turn off. My zero trader rating? My business model just might be a little different than yours. I dont find these forums the best place to buy and sell domain names. Quite the contrary. What I do find them useful for is information about domains, monetizing, dev and such. Thank God I dont have to hang out here all the time to sell domain names. I did that a lot in the early days but eventually you learn or you go broke.

I do watch fox news but not daily. Do they lean right. You bet. All our news services have bias now. Thats how it is. So if your a conservative, you will naturally gravitate to a conservative leaning news source. See, Im an independant. I have many liberal friends. I am a union member too. And a small biz owner. So considering this, you learn to identify the good and bad of both fringes. Thats why I dont like Limbaugh, Hannity, Shultz , Olberman, Mattews or MSNBC in general. Nothing but hatemongers the bunch of them. Just like anything else. The truth is in the numbers. MSNBC insults peoples intelligence, so their audience is tiny compared to fox. FOX beats all of them combined. So its no surprise to me that your so called survey by college kids (liberal college kids) finds a anti fox bias. They simply couldnt find any MSNBC viewers to answer the questions.

Doesn't it make sense that since there is only one channel (fox) for those who lean 'right', vs a dozen or so channels for those on the 'left' (god i hate those labels..) that if it were the other way around and were only one channel for the 'liberals' and a dozne or so for the 'conservatives' (more labels) that it would be number one?

[NexSite]

Why yes indeed that is plausible. What else does that tell you? It tells me that Americans have been "programmed" by liberal media outlets for decades when there was no Fox. The blinders are off, the cats out of the bag, and the "progressives" are not happy about that at all. What are they so worried about? The challenge? That people have different opinions? That they might have to substantiate their claims? They all have perspectives so everybody needs to get over it. It is laughable (and not so much) how some in the press (and government) want to impose some kind of control on free speech on the conservative/right media. So desperate are they.

[DomainsInc]

Why yes indeed that is plausible. What else does that tell you? It tells me that Americans have been "programmed" by liberal media outlets for decades when there was no Fox. The blinders are off, the cats out of the bag, and the "progressives" are not happy about that at all. What are they so worried about? The challenge? That people have different opinions? That they might have to substantiate their claims? They all have perspectives so everybody needs to get over it. It is laughable (and not so much) how some in the press (and government) want to impose some kind of control on free speech on the conservative/right media. So desperate are they.

People shouldn't rely on any cable news channels to get their information. Its all mostly opinion pieces with only a few hours of news inbetween.

[Gerry]

The biggest concern here should be the intentional misreporting, intentional misinformation, and intentional misleading done by Fox News.