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People who watch fox news know less about the world than people who watch no news.
November 22, 2011 at 2:26 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21...ostpopular
Quote:Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University
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RE: People who watch fox news know less about the world than people who watch no news.
November 22, 2011 at 4:05 pm
(November 22, 2011 at 2:26 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21...ostpopular
Quote:Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Now try explaining this to someone who watches Fox News.
They will flat make shit up to try & frame the study as "partisan"
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RE: People who watch fox news know less about the world than people who watch no news.
November 22, 2011 at 4:11 pm
(November 22, 2011 at 4:05 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: Now try explaining this to someone who watches Fox News.
They will flat make shit up to try & frame the study as "partisan"
Yes lets remember fox is always "fair and balanced"
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RE: People who watch fox news know less about the world than people who watch no news.
December 13, 2011 at 10:01 pm
I don't "watch" news. I inform myself and it's a daunting, yet liberating task.
People too lazy to read will naturally gravitate toward something like FOX because it's easy to understand, then again, everything intuitive is easy to understand. Therein lies the problem. Intuition takes the least amount of effort and so does flipping on the TV and getting the "news".
It's pretty obvious when you think about it. The masses follow the path of least resistance. As long as the easy path exists, lazy people will choose it.
It's easier to listen to your intuition, rather than educate yourself. Easier to beat a child, than teach it why it shouldn't do X,Y and Z. Etc.
It's extremely easy to follow your intuition and disregard all sources of valid information. Then hold the intuitions as valid, because of your intentional ignorance.
Like I said, path of least resistance. Simple as that. It takes effort to use your brain and people aren't willing to give the effort.
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RE: People who watch fox news know less about the world than people who watch no news.
December 13, 2011 at 10:46 pm
This is actually an amazing achievement. Many information sources could be accused of being, shall we say, somewhat less than accurate; but to be so uninformative as to actually drain knowledge from people who watch it, now that takes some doing.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
