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There's a reason FoxNews viewers score the absolute worst in surveys on public knowledge.
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Do you have a source, or is this one of those "it's ok to make up facts because it supports the liberal media agenda" things?
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start here. Page 15 (of the pdf) has some interesting graphics.
Here's a quote from page 14 (of the pdf) introducing the graphics.
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The table below shows this clearly. Listed are the breakouts of the sample according to the frequency of the three key misperceptions (i.e. the beliefs that evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda have been found, that WMD have been found in Iraq and that world public opinion approved of the US going to war with Iraq) and their primary news source. Fox News watchers were most likely to hold misperceptions—and were more than twice as likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions. In the audience for NPR/PBS, however, there was an overwhelming majority who did not have any of the three misperceptions, and hardly any had all three.
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So your evidence that fox news viewers are less knowledgeable is based on one survey conducted on one issue 2 years ago? Good job.
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You asked for a source for the statement, you got it. Not that anyone thought it would change your mind on the subject, but whatever.
I like this part:
"Now, this could just be pre-sorting by ideology: Conservatives watch O'Reilly, liberals look at Lehrer, and everyone finds his belief system confirmed. But the Knowledge Network nudniks took that into account, and found that even among people of like mind, where they got their news still shaped their sense of the real. Among respondents who said they would vote for George W. Bush in next year's presidential race, for instance, more than three-quarters of the Fox watchers thought we'd uncovered a working relationship between Hussein and al Qaeda, while just half of those who watch PBS believed this to be the case."