Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are "the most consistently misinformed"

[Melensdad]

Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are "the most consistently misinformed"

Mak2 seems to imply that FOX News is reporting in a false and misleading way. He calls it FAUX news. That seems to correlate well with what political humorist Jon Stewart recently claimed when he was interviewed on FOX's network.

But is this perception true? Are FOX viewers misinformed? Are FOX viewers mindless drones who don't know the truth?

It actually appears that FOX viewers are MORE INFORMED that their counterparts who watch CNN, MSNBC or the local networks. So says PEW RESEARCH.

Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are "the most consistently misinformed media viewers"?
Nick Gillespie | June 21, 2011

No, says Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning site that checks statements by pols, media folks, and whatnot (note: Politifact is itself sometimes as full of shit as Daily Show Stewart is this time around).

On June 19, Stewart appeared on Fox News and socratized anchor Chris Wallace thusly:

"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers?" Stewart asked Wallace. "The most consistently misinformed? Fox, Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."​

Yet, Politifact notes that in a 2007 Pew study of political knowledge, viewers of Fox scored 35 percent, a "score [that] places it exactly at the national average." A 2008 version of the study found overall Fox viewers around the national average for other news outlets. But then there's this:

...particular Fox shows scored well above the average. Hannity & Colmes was one of only four choices to exceed 40 percent -- the others were the New Yorker/the Atlantic, NPR and MSNBC’s Hardball -- while The O’Reilly Factor scored 28 percent, or 10 points above the national average. (Hannity & Colmes even exceeded Stewart’s Daily Show in this poll, 42 percent to 30 percent.)

In all, this poll undercuts Stewart’s position even more than the 2007 poll did.​

And in 2010, Fox viewers again hit the national average but

Fox actually scored better than its two direct cable-news rivals -- MSNBC, which is a liberal counterpoint to Fox, and CNN, which is considered more middle-of-the-road. Also scoring lower than Fox were local television news, the evening network news shows and the network morning shows.​

And for the third time, particular Fox shows scored well. Hannity ranked fifth (just ahead of MSNBC’s liberal shows hosted by Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow) and O’Reilly ranked ninth. For the first time, Pew included Glenn Beck in its rankings, and the Fox host finished 12th -- slightly ahead of Stewart’s own Daily Show.​

How about that? Glenn Beck viewers more informed than Daily Show watchers? Hannity zombies sharper than Olbermann and Maddow drones? . . .

READ MORE AT REASON => http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/21/is-jon-stewart-correct-that-fo​

 

[SShepherd]

Re: Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are "the most consistently misinform

well ofcourse he'd say that! logic doesn't fit into their world views, so therefore people who use logic are misinformed.
Comeone, anytime you find your political ideals inline with people from hollywood let alone a comedian, you might need to rethink things

 

[Melensdad]

Re: Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are "the most consistently misinform

Also notice that Mak2 has not responded to this thread complaining about FAUX NEWS . . . perhaps because he's been debunked?

 

[joec]

Re: Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are "the most consistently misinform

Mak2 has been banned Mel.

 

[Doc]

Re: Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are "the most consistently misinform

Mak2 has been banned Mel.

Yes he has. He is on a temporary vacation.

As for the article, I think they have it right. I watch as many news channels as I have time for. Some CNN, Fox, NBC and even MSNBC on occasion. Fox is right up there in reporting news stories as they happened. They do lean to the right when offering opinions but they also state the facts as often as the other news feeds ....well maybe more often according to the study.