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True enough, but it is none the less interesting that the Fox viewers seem to have achieved a fairly high level of ignorance compared to their CNN and MSNBC informed brethren.
From teh source I cited:
On the question of covering illegal immigrants 72% of Fox viewers believe it does compared to 41% for CNN/MSNBC. 75% of Fox viewers believe the killing granny nonsense compared to 30% for CNN/MSNBC. Similar disparities exist for several other important questions.
I'd say those numbers make it fairly clear that by and large Fox viewers are fairly poorly informed. And sadly, this is not restricted to just the health care debate.
Fox should change their motto to: "We Lie and You Believe it without question"
Because that's pretty much what every poll shows.
From teh source I cited:
Here’s another way to look at the misinformation: In our poll, 72% of self-identified FOX News viewers believe the health-care plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants, 79% of them say it will lead to a government takeover, 69% think that it will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and 75% believe that it will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing care for the elderly. But it would be incorrect to suggest that this is ONLY coming from conservative viewers who tune in to FOX. In fact, 41% of CNN/MSNBC viewers believe the misinformation about illegal immigrants, 39% believe the government takeover stuff, 40% believe the abortion misperception, and 30% believe the stuff about pulling the plug on grandma. What’s more, a good chunk of folks who get their news from broadcast TV (NBC, ABC, CBS) believe these things, too.
I'd say those numbers make it fairly clear that by and large Fox viewers are fairly poorly informed. And sadly, this is not restricted to just the health care debate.
Fox should change their motto to: "We Lie and You Believe it without question"
Because that's pretty much what every poll shows.
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