Study: Fox News Viewers Most Ignorant, Misinformed

[Patriot_Spear]

PIPA's seven polls, which included 9,611 respondents, had a margin of error from 2 to 3.5 percent.

The analysis released Thursday also correlated the misperceptions with the primary news source of the mistaken respondents. For example, 80 percent of those who said they relied on Fox News and 71 percent of those who said they relied on CBS believed at least one of the three misperceptions.

The comparable figures were 47 percent for those who said they relied most on newspapers and magazines and 23 percent for those who said they relied on PBS or National Public Radio.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/iraq/6918170.htm

[whathappened]

1. news sorse

is nothing but the net and pbs and bill moyer

[Cha]

2. As mediawhoresonline so aptly puts it ...."Now it's Official"!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. And the resultsof this poll are most likely to reported

in reverse order of finish.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Its Disgusting that many, too many, Americans choose to remain

ignorant and mis informed by listening/watching a media of dubious value.

Its emotionalism gone mad.

We are a singular planet with a singular dominant species bent on madness.

We have the knowledge to do far better but we choose to remain loyal to those who exploit us.

We think in small terms, selfish terms, greedy terms, and thus miss the larger picture.

Seven sins?? Our leaders got them covered big time.

and because we put them there, we are full of the seven sins ourselves.

:shrug:

[HPLeft]

5. Yet another big surprise, right

Fox represents an alternate reality, or some kind of evil parallel universe. Their new slogan should be, "all spin, all the time".

[The Magistrate]

6. An Excellent Bit, This, Sir

Thank you for putting it up.

[Patriot_Spear]

7. my pleasure...

Sad though it is...

[cprise]

13. Why do you talk like Marcy?

[cprise]

8. This is a GREAT, GREAT idea!

It should be done every week with a few important issues and published for everyone to see!

[Patriot_Spear]

11. I think you're onto something...

n/t

[David Zephyr]

9. Thank You, Patriot_Spear!

Your chart and report...it's a beautiful thing to behold.

Thanks. :hi:

[BlueJazz]

10. Man O Man.....

Every-time I start having faith in the American people, I see something like this.

I realize fully, that there are many wonderful, informed folks in this country but frankly, the curve is sure getting squashed by the ignorant ones...

[incapsulated]

12. I know how you feel

If it were just faux viewers that where so completely clueless, this would be funny, rather than depressing.

[peacetalksforall]

14. Kings and court jesters

Not only is * descended from British royalty,

our supreme court crowned him,

and court jesters on the politically owned cable shows perform morning, noon, and night.

[alcuno]

15. Can we keep this at the top of the page all the time?

Will anyone put this poll up on the nightly news?

[karlschneider]

20. Well, we can always give it a

:kick:
;-)

[alcuno]

22. True

But it deserves a place of prominence.

[Raenelle]

16. The results can be interpreted two ways

One, that Fox misinforms its viewers, or

two, that Fox viewers are just that much more stupid--Fox gets the bottom half of the bell curve, or

three, both of the above.

[leftchick]

17. My Mom will not believe this....

because it was not on faux news. Oh, the irony in these times...
:(

[RedEarth]

18. I wonder if the freepers would like to see the results

Just to show them how freaking stupid they are. Morans!

[Loyal]

19. Haha, awesome

:)

[mike_c]

21. wait a minute....

The graphic states that it shows the primary news source for those who believe something, expressed as a percent, i.e. proportion of 100 percent. Why don't the numbers sum to 100 percent? If 67 percent of the people who believe the al-Qaida fairytale have Fox as their primary news source, there are only 33 percent left to divide among the other categories. Something doesn't add up here.

[ithacan]

24. you misread the chart

what it's saying is that 67 percent of those people who watch fox believe the al-qaeda-iraq fairy tale. It is not a breakdown of those who believe it in terms of where they get their news.

It's showing that while 67 percent of Fox news views are misinformed on this, only 16 percent of people who get news from PBS/NPR are misinformed on this.

[leftchick]

23. irony

a :kick: for irony....