Fox News viewers less informed about current events than those who don't watch any news at all | Chicago Tribune

A new survey of New Jersey voters comes to a provocative conclusion: Fox News viewers tend to be less informed about current events than those who don’t watch any news at all.

Fairleigh Dickinson University recently questioned 612 adults in New Jersey about how they get their news, offering as options traditional outlets like newspapers and local and national television news, or blogs, websites and even Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

They then asked a series of factual questions about the major events of the last year, from the “Arab Spring” to the Republican race for president.

For example, respondents were first asked whether, to the best of their knowledge, opposition groups in Egypt had been successful in bringing down the Mubarak regime.

Among NPR listeners, 68% correctly said they had been; only 49% of Fox News viewers answered correctly. In fact, the survey found, Fox viewers were 18 percentage points less likely to answer correctly than those who watched no news at all.

Source: reallyfoxnews

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    Oops? Bummer, guys.
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    I will probably not mention this study at our Thanksgiving dinner. However, I will be content to feel secretly smug...
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    CANT ARGUE WITH RESEARCH
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    Nothing I didn’t already suspect, but nice to see it confirmed.
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    or as my rightwing relatives (not all of them) would respond. well, that’s just your view of events and your liberal...
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    I need to print this article out and secretly mail it to my ignorant ass parents (along with pictures of the violence...
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