Social The Fox News Effect

[58miles]

I think this explains why so many conservatives still believe the Obama Birther lie, The Hillary uranium story, pizza-gate the Clinton death list, QANON and other absurd conspiracy theories. It also explains their cult like devotion to Trump.

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In 2012, a Fairleigh Dickinson University survey reported that Fox News viewers were less informed about current events than people who didn't follow the news at all. The survey had asked current events questions like "Which party has the most seats in the House of Representatives?" and also asked what source of news people followed. The Fox viewers' current events scores were in the basement.

Fox News viewers scored the lowest of over 30 popular news sources (though Fox viewers did at least score better than those saying they didn't follow the news). The chart’s horizontal black lines with tick marks indicate the margins of statistical error. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a news satire, had the best-informed viewers.

Fox viewers were less likely to know the capital of Canada, the religion of the Dalai Lama, or the size of the Federal budget. They couldn't find South Carolina on map or name the second digit of pi.

The Fox News effect is a correlation. It doesn't prove that watching Fox News causes people to be ill-informed.
rest of the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/...c-look-into-the-fox-news-effect/#3f8175ed12ab

 

[TeTe]

Does anyone under the age of 60 watch Fox News? That's probably the first issue right there.

 

[Fawlty]

Should mention it's from 2016 (and is totally unsurprising). I'd like to see this re-run after two years of Trump.

It makes sense that satire viewers are better informed, because you have to know about stuff to appreciate it being satirized.

 

[IGotAHugePeckah]

The real "Fox News effect" is leftists calling out Fox as propaganda, then flipping on CNN and MSNBC and thinking they're getting the real scoop.

 

[58miles]

The real "Fox News effect" is leftists calling out Fox as propaganda, then flipping on CNN and MSNBC and thinking they're getting the real scoop.

MSNBC and CNN viewers are better informed than Fox News viewers and that is what this thread and article is about, bothside-ism doesn't apply here.

 

[RockstarChris]

half the things you said actually happened

 

[KaNesDeath]

People sadly dont differentiate between news reporting and journalism.

 

[Sketch]

MSNBC and CNN viewers are better informed than Fox News viewers and that is what this thread and article is about, bothside-ism doesn't apply here.

CNN is a tabloid.

 

[Happy Man]

The real "Fox News effect" is leftists calling out Fox as propaganda, then flipping on CNN and MSNBC and thinking they're getting the real scoop.

Hbo vice, John Oliver, abc, pbs, NPR, NBC, cbs, daily show, the view, Ellen, good morning America, then every single late night talk show host, ESPN and sports in general now, Hollywood, prime time tv shows, the entire music industry, the entire tech industry,

The liberal bubble is all encompassing and people cannot escape if they don't notice it.

But there is Fox News, to you know, balance it out

 

[58miles]

CNN is a tabloid.

Why is that, even if you accept that CNN is a liberal tabloid and Fox News is a conservative tabloid, why are CNN viewers better informed than Fox News viewers. Why?

 

[andnowweknow]

CNN is a tabloid.

You're avoiding its relation to the truth vs Fox News. They both have an agenda. Fox purposely outright lies as a company policy. They aren't remotely the same, objectively.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Highlight's include:
In 2012, a Fairleigh Dickinson University survey reported that Fox News viewers were less informed about current events than people who didn't follow the news at all.

Fox News viewers scored the lowest of over 30 popular news sources (though Fox viewers did at least score better than those saying they didn't follow the news).

 

[skold]

The real "Fox News effect" is leftists calling out Fox as propaganda, then flipping on CNN and MSNBC and thinking they're getting the real scoop.

Ah yes.. because Fox News and CNN are TOTALLY the same right?

 

[Lvnvmma]

What do you want to do? Ban Fox news? Why don't you call out CNN/MSNBC, pretty much every other channel other than Fox for covering Trump 24/7? That's pretty much all they talk about. Fox covers more goings on around the country.

 

[Phr3121]

The Fox News Effect

'The CNN Effect'
"The CNN effect is a phenomenon in political science and media studies which states that CNN's use of shocking images of humanitarian crises around the world compels U.S. policy makers to intervene in humanitarian situations they may not otherwise have an interest in."

"The 24-hour international television news channel known as Cable News Network, had a major impact on the conduct of states' foreign policy in the late Cold War period and that CNN and its subsequent industry competitors have had a similar impact in the post Cold War era."

"While the free press has, in its role as the 'Fourth State', always had an influence on policy-making in representative democracies, proponents of the CNN effect argue that the extent, depth, and speed of the new global media have created a new species of effects qualitatively different from those that preceded them."

 

[phoenixikki]

So tell me how CNN is unbiased. I'm all ears.

 

[58miles]

What do you want to do? Ban Fox news? Why don't you call out CNN/MSNBC, pretty much every other channel other than Fox for covering Trump 24/7? That's pretty much all they talk about. Fox covers more goings on around the country.

CNN and MSNBC viewers are better informed than Fox News viewers, so are John Oliver viewers, why are Fox News viewers so damn uninformed? What kind of effect does so many people being so uninformed this have on American politics?

 

[Lvnvmma]

CNN and MSNBC viewers are better informed than Fox News viewers, so are John Oliver viewers, why are Fox News viewers so damn uninformed? What kind of effect does so many people being so uninformed this have on American politics?

Age of viewership might be the reason or something or other. Meanwhile, just yesterday:

 

[Travis17]

These studies are meaningless because they assume the leftist media are reliable sources. It's like using these so called "fact checker" sites that pretend to be unbiased when obviously they are towards the left. They've been caught numerous times bending the truth by claiming something is false said by Republicans but the same things is true when a Democrat says it.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

The real "Fox News effect" is leftists calling out Fox as propaganda, then flipping on CNN and MSNBC and thinking they're getting the real scoop.

Looks like we found one of those uniformed fox news viewers.