Social The Fox News Effect

It may not be irreversible.


Fox News' viewers can change their attitudes...
A new study shows how Fox News pushes its viewers in a more extreme direction.

Fox News’ coverage of the world is so extreme and so overtly propagandistic that it might seem that its viewers are impervious to information from more mainstream news outlets. But a new working paper suggests that, if they’re actually shown the information, Fox News viewers can be open to absorbing unflattering news about politicians they support and can change their minds about hot-button issues.

It’s a fascinating finding that hammers home how Fox News isn’t just reflecting right-wing viewers’ opinions back at them, but is also feeding them a distorted picture of the world that pushes them deeper into support for extreme ideological positions and politicians. And it doesn’t have to be this way...

...Stanford University and Joshua Kalla of Yale University just published a working paper, which is under peer review, based on the results of an experiment studying viewers of Fox News. In the fall of 2020, they paid regular Fox News viewers to watch CNN, instead, for about seven hours a week for a month and then surveyed them about their political attitudes and what they knew about current events.

Broockman and Kalla compared the survey results of the experimental group of Fox News viewers who switched to CNN to those of the control group who didn’t, and they found that consuming CNN noticeably shifted the test group’s perception of the world...

...Part of what’s interesting about the study is that it captured not just the difference between CNN’s and Fox News’ ideological outlooks, but also their differing commitments to sharing certain facts. Most notably, CNN was more likely to offer factual information that reflected more poorly on Donald Trump — and the Fox viewers who switched realized this: Participants who switched were less likely to agree that “if Donald Trump did something bad, Fox News would discuss it.”



The switchers were more likely to care about Covid, learn different information about current events and feel more negatively toward Trump and the GOP....

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Even so, it's still striking that it took just four weeks for some of them to shift in some attitudes and observations of facts.

Describing Fox News as merely a mirror of the right doesn’t correctly convey the problem. In the facts and narratives it chooses to present or omit, it persuades its viewers to think in ways they might not think if they didn’t have access to the network. And in its editorial decisions to become cheerleaders for certain politicians, it forecloses its viewers’ ability to hold conservative leaders accountable for failing at their own projects or for the negative consequences they cause that a conservative might be interested to learn about....

...The issue, rather, is Fox News' values — which include an editorial embrace of white nationalism, authoritarianism, bigotry and brutal economic exploitation — and its casual use of fearmongering and evidence-free conspiracy theories to advance ideas....
 
Yup, CNN and MSNBC are quick not to report on the border issues, the lack of covid, the lies by thr CDC, the hunter laptop, Joe's dealings with China and Ukraine.

But Fox News watchers don't know shit. Lol. I watched a video last night where a woman was on the streets asking if people knew about any of this. You would be shocked at how many said they didn't. Then asked what news they watched it was CNN and msnbc.
https://gettr.com/post/p13ol2xbbe3
 
As a conservative who talks to fellow conservatives I can tell you that’s not true hardly anyone believes all that non sense
 
Mark McMichael said:
It may not be irreversible.


Fox News' viewers can change their attitudes...
A new study shows how Fox News pushes its viewers in a more extreme direction.

Fox News’ coverage of the world is so extreme and so overtly propagandistic that it might seem that its viewers are impervious to information from more mainstream news outlets. But a new working paper suggests that, if they’re actually shown the information, Fox News viewers can be open to absorbing unflattering news about politicians they support and can change their minds about hot-button issues.

It’s a fascinating finding that hammers home how Fox News isn’t just reflecting right-wing viewers’ opinions back at them, but is also feeding them a distorted picture of the world that pushes them deeper into support for extreme ideological positions and politicians. And it doesn’t have to be this way...

...Stanford University and Joshua Kalla of Yale University just published a working paper, which is under peer review, based on the results of an experiment studying viewers of Fox News. In the fall of 2020, they paid regular Fox News viewers to watch CNN, instead, for about seven hours a week for a month and then surveyed them about their political attitudes and what they knew about current events.

Broockman and Kalla compared the survey results of the experimental group of Fox News viewers who switched to CNN to those of the control group who didn’t, and they found that consuming CNN noticeably shifted the test group’s perception of the world...

...Part of what’s interesting about the study is that it captured not just the difference between CNN’s and Fox News’ ideological outlooks, but also their differing commitments to sharing certain facts. Most notably, CNN was more likely to offer factual information that reflected more poorly on Donald Trump — and the Fox viewers who switched realized this: Participants who switched were less likely to agree that “if Donald Trump did something bad, Fox News would discuss it.”



The switchers were more likely to care about Covid, learn different information about current events and feel more negatively toward Trump and the GOP....

...
Even so, it's still striking that it took just four weeks for some of them to shift in some attitudes and observations of facts.

Describing Fox News as merely a mirror of the right doesn’t correctly convey the problem. In the facts and narratives it chooses to present or omit, it persuades its viewers to think in ways they might not think if they didn’t have access to the network. And in its editorial decisions to become cheerleaders for certain politicians, it forecloses its viewers’ ability to hold conservative leaders accountable for failing at their own projects or for the negative consequences they cause that a conservative might be interested to learn about....

...The issue, rather, is Fox News' values — which include an editorial embrace of white nationalism, authoritarianism, bigotry and brutal economic exploitation — and its casual use of fearmongering and evidence-free conspiracy theories to advance ideas....
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Brian Stelter must have wrote this. The level of leftist bias inherent in higher education is greater than at any time in the modern world.

The fact an article this hilariously subjective, baseless and ludicrous is even published….well fuck.

I guess there are brainwashed lemmings foolish enough to even believe some of it…
 
kenetics said:
This.
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Yup.

All media has bias or leanings and that is fine. Fox and much of the right media is not just right but they are active purveyors of lies and CT's and deliberately so which is different generally from what we see in the more centrist media.
 
Reading back this thread and it is filled with absolute gems
 
I am seeing in this thread a bunch of Fox viewers not being able to understand the premise. I think TS is onto something.
 
IamStryker said:
I see far more lies on CNN.

Took about 2 seconds to find this clip of CNN lying about the new Florida bill.

That's because they are so predictable in their lies.
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Cnn is trash but fox is up there too. This was just embarrassing from Fox.

 
I stopped watching Fox News after the election. Can't trust a news channel that reports false votes.
 
deadon said:
Yup, CNN and MSNBC are quick not to report on the border issues, the lack of covid, the lies by thr CDC, the hunter laptop, Joe's dealings with China and Ukraine.

But Fox News watchers don't know shit. Lol. I watched a video last night where a woman was on the streets asking if people knew about any of this. You would be shocked at how many said they didn't. Then asked what news they watched it was CNN and msnbc.
https://gettr.com/post/p13ol2xbbe3
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