I always suspected something like this. It’s good to see it finally proven true! Now how about an in-depth study showing which Fox shows are worse than others!

Fox actually broadcasts disinformation

Honestly, I may watch FOX News periodically to “see what the pagans are saying”! Murdoch’s band of supposedly “journalistic” rogues are akin to the Keystone Kops but, these “commentators” can be very dangerous because there are people who actually believe the tripe FOX is known to spew over the air waves! BillO,
probably the “Head Rogue” of this lock-step bunch of liars sets the tone and the other BillO wanna-bees follow suit! Lol! It’s amazing they’re still on the air….
what a country!

The other evening on FOX footage was shown of a violent clash or what very much looked like one between an Occupy group and police in riot gear who vastly outnumbered them. This is one case where some context and explanation of just what exactly was going on here was critical. But FOX, instead of having anything like that, had no verbal commentary. Instead, across the bottom of the screen were a bunch of words saying “the popularity of the Democrats continues to plunge…” Here on the screen is a vivid scene of action/violence or at the very least something pretty important going on. Instead of describing it, telling us what it’s all about, we’re given a worse than bogus factoid or statistic, pretty much implying that the Occupy groups = Democrats & they are being “defeated” or “losing their popularity or influence.” My daughter is very politically active and only 20. She is familiar with many involved in Occupy events. They are no more Democrats than they are Republicans. They are the opposite of partisan politics, disgusted and tired of all of it. So Fox’s implication that Occupy = Democrats & well, that they are “losing” now is an example of useless if not false information. Disinformation may be too polite a word.

This isn’t news at all, it is biased, opinionated propaganda. Just compare the reporting of the OWS and the Tea Party protests by Fox. The Tea Party was a conservative movement supported by Fox. The OWS has been characterized as a directionless, rabble by lazy, socialists who want to be given everything. The words “socialist” and “leftists” are favorites of Fox when they wish to discredit or disavow the message of others. The same was true of their coverage of health care and their coverage of the deficit debate. Those who wanted higher taxes on the wealthiest reaping the greatest rewards were labeled as vilifying the wealthy, job creators and producers. Those who oppose the conservative agenda are called vermin, lazy, leeches and worse by Faux News.

This is not balanced or informative reporting, it is “hate mongering” because the goal of Fox is about encouraging fear and distrust, not providing useful information. Fox wants to further a conservative agenda that favors the wealthiest Americans and it believes the most effective way to do that is to divide middle America. It is not and never has been to provide unbiased, informative and balanced news reporting. Just listen to Fox’s Chris Wallace-Jon Steward interview. Mr. Wallace doesn’t even recognize what the purpose of reporting the news is supposed to be.

This is only one of many non-partisan studies on the news media. Those that can’t believe that Fox News spreads mis-information might just do their homework; there are scores of these studies out there, some by credible universities, some by Media watch-dogs — all prove that the facts are skewed and re-worked on Fox News, leaving their viewers no more informed than their own bias allows. This is precisely the reason Fox News is so popular with a certain group — a group that simply wants their own personal resentments and fears validated.
Most understand Motivated Bias, the ability to “believe what is convenient” — to believe false information because it confirms your own bigotry and hate. Those of you who applauded when NASCAR fans booed Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and then heard that fat man on Fox News refer to them as “uppity” and didn’t feel the hair on the back of your neck rise — well, you probably suffer with Motivational Bias. Good luck with that.

Indeed. They should be required by law to add the commas to the word News. Just as any other advertisment is required to do when they try to decieve you into believing it’s news. 24/7 propaganda. Pure and simple. Masters of manipulation. To those who are easily manipulated. “We report,you decide” That’s rich. But still not as hilarious as “Fair and Balanced”. Here is the scary thought of the day. What if News Corp somehow managed to buy out CNN, NBC, ABC, and also was able to squash NPR out of existence. Throw in BBC and AP and now you would have Neo-Con, police state, tear up the constitution utopia. The world according to O’Riely ,Hannity and Beck. The ultimate nightmare.

The research didn’t say that Fox had no coverage of Egypt, it said the viewers didn’t know that they had succeeded in over throwing their government. People who watched no news were more aware of that success.
Jon Stewart often shows stories from Fox where they have used pictures of some other event to show that the crowds of the events they support are larger than they were.
I was at a protest of the war in Iraq in Oct 2004 and I was there early, about an hour before the event started and Fox was filming at that time and I couldn’t figure out why they would film before the people came. They showed that footage on air and reported that no one showed up. The march was 27 blocks long and 4 lanes wide. I’ve never been in a larger protest in my life. I am politically active and have attended protests since the early 70′s. Fox is not news and every study ever done has shown the same results, no matter where the information is gathered.

This survey proves what I have believed all alone, republicans are stupid. Close minded and can’t see the facts. They believe a lie to be the truth. I don’t watch Fox News anymore. Has been years, I saw the lies they were putting out and it made me sick. I wrote a letter to them, still waiting on a reply. Anything that comes from Fox is propaganda. The biggest lie that I have seen clips on, “Tax increases will destroy job creation”. The fact is tax cuts don’t create jobs. If so why are the jobs are overseas? The tax cuts and tax breaks allow it. Will Fox report that? NO!!!! Fox is a ignorant news channel and so are the viewers, the survey proves that.

Fox News is Right Wing PRAVDA- has nothing to do with news, has everything to do with selling the Right Wing Agenda – classic case – over and over and over again of ‘don’t bother me the facts, just tell me what I want to hear’

In addition to my doctorate in the field, I have been actively involved in political affairs (including serving on numerous government commissions such as the Virginia Board for Public Broadcasting)over the last 50 years. I have coached intercollegiate debate and taught political science AND POLLING in a highly regarded university. Anyone who knows anything at all about polling knows THE RESULTS DEPEND ON THE QUESTIONS ASKED, AND BY THE PERCEPTION OF THE POLLING ORGANIZATION (if it wants to get certain results). I know too many people whose sole source of news is FOX News and I do not know any of them who are at all misinformed. (I admit I do not know anyone from New Jersey at this time.) I did watch Fox news throughout the “Arab Spring” and have friends in the Middle East. The information I got from Fox News about Egypt, and the rest of North Africa, and Syria, all matches up perfectly with the NYT, Washington Post, and friends living in those areas. In fact, I will accept FOX news as factual far before NPR or similar sources. Could it be that the information the pollers based their so called results on is simply false? When I was in Afghanistan in the 1990s at a fairly high level, the information broadcast by NPR was 180 degrees from what was actually going on.

I hardly watch Fox News and the only time I do when I am at the Dr. office or in the airport. Their news and comments and the political shows like O-Rielly and others are playing on the same tune to destroy Obama’s image and the Democratic party period, nothing new, nothing to deal and do something about the economical and the unemployment situations, they just ctitisize and condemn and poisen the American people with their prpaganda! Most of my friends, they are Republicans, they just fed up with their games of the hatred style comments.Their ratings are down except on Sunday when they sponsor a football game !!!

The real question is how will anyone ever know of this poll? Will FOX ever comment on it? If they don’t talk about it, don’t you know it doesn’t exist or never happened.

When people do studies you have to consider that the results mean.

This result examined the relationship between what people watch and how much they know.

You can look at the questionaire to see if it’s inherently biased. I don’t know the questions, but if the questions were about “who is the deposed leader of Egypt” they don’t seem so.

The only variables left, if the questions aren’t biased, is the News source and it’s viewership.

It may be that Fox is perfectly informative, or at least as good as everyone else. It may be that the viewership deosn’t have the same skill set for assembling facts.

Or, alternately, the viewership is equal to the task – and Fox does not do a good job of presentation.

Since we have many voices that insist Fox does fine coverage – I suspect it’s the viewership. And of all the variables here, that’s the one most difficult to examine.

You might be perfectly capable of assembling the facts, and Fox might do a fine job of presenting them, but your coviewers are demonstrabley less facile.

Which opens up another can of worms.

Take yer pick.

The article states ‘Fox News viewers are not only a whopping 18 points less likely to know what’s happening in Egypt than people who don’t watch news at all; they are also significantly less informed than viewers of other cable news networks. 57 percent of CNN and MSNBC viewers answered the Hosni Mubarak question correctly, compared to only 49 percent of Fox News viewers.’
This seems to suggest that even people who watch CNN and MSNBC were 10% less likely to know correctly about developments involving Hosni Mubarak in Egypt than people who watched no TV “news” coverage at all.
This appears to suggest that the best informed people in America are those who watch no TV news coverage at all. Does this make sense to Americans?

Oh, and the out of context clip editing!
Two come to mind – Hannity showing Obama saying “taxes are going to go up next year, for everybody.” then saying, “I’m sure he will make that happen.” When the full clip was Obama saying the Bush plan was to have Bush’s tax cuts expire – taxes go up – at the end of the year.
One showed Biden saying, “The foundations of the Economy are Strong!” – when in fact he was quoting McCain and disagreeing.
Oh! Then there was the Tea Party rally they were talking about as being so well attended – but they were showing video from an earlier not-tea party rally that was better attended… it was even the wrong season!
and here is a video about the “Nazi” thing http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-24-2011/24-hour-nazi-party-people (starts around 3 minutes)

There is NO WAY anyone can honestly claim that Fox News doesn’t lie.

The son of Murdoch was likened to a mafia boss by a parliamentarian in the UK House of Commons recently. The recent revelations of phone hacking by the Murdoch owned press in Britain effectively torpedoed them from gaining control over BSkyB, a cable TV channel, and they were forced to close down The News of the World, a newspaper title with more than 160 years of history, as a result of the phone hacking scandal. Has this been reported by Fox News, I wonder?
In fact, these are but the least of a number of revelations concerning the Murdoch press in Britain, which raises the question, “Are the Murdochs fit people to own and/or control any form of mass media anywhere in the world?”
Why is this question not being raised in the USA and elsewhere?

Faux News is nothing but a rumor mill, facts be dammed. What they spread is not News but one sided spin.

. Without a Doubt! ! !
FOX not only manipulates information twisting it into something it is not but hey also manufacture stories and broadcast half-truths . I have no doubt they have “goons” on the street who pick up on minor items and make them into mountains then call Hannity who can say he has it from a source that — and spew misinformation blown out of proportion and protect himself by saying he received it from a source. Listen to his radio shows; the people calling in are a few crumbs short of being yesterday’s sandwich!

It is sad that so many people are ready to take the word of radical radio and TV talk show hosts rather than take time to research, study and make educated decisions! FOX has built a following of simple minded robotics that are ready to follow and do as suggested.

The greatest problem we have in America today is the harm FOX has done in destroying the credibility and trust in our government. They thrill at having GOP visitors who spend more time in front of TV cameras bad-mouthing Fix America efforts than they do in their offices helping restore our nation!

The other night, Keith Olbermann said “…the political whorehouse whorehouse that is Fox News.” I find that term derogatory. To Sex Workers.

I agree 100%. It has been very irritating each day to listen to FOX News commentators, that give only a part of the story, and then their blinded opinions. They are bias, self-centered, egotiscal men. If they feel they have the answers, then why don’t they get into government and make the difference. Everyone knows that FOX is conservative driven, previous employees have already stated that they are told what to say, if their views differ from that of management. FOX news has contributed greatly to the mis-trust and destroying the credibility of our government and President. Obama has dones what every business man would do. He puts out his vision and expects the congress to carry out. The supposedly educated few that sit in congress should be able to come up with a plan. Taxing the rich is not so bad, unless you are rich. Relieving the middle class from carrying the burden is a good plan, then maybe the economy would get better. Taxing the corporations is also good, they make big profits, and then pay the rich millions in bonuses. Good Revenue, if you ask me. As for spending, run the government like a business, cut down on paper, cut down on duplicated offices, producing the same information, but cutting benefits to those who have supported the government and this country is just one big slap in the face. Congress get your act together, and just do what is right. Thanks for the opportunity to vent.

Watch the gaffes in the next Repub debate (best reality TV ever). Then watch the coverage on Fox, then on any other outlet. Differences in tone, length, and subject should be quite evident, even to the most obtuse observer. The one you find fair and balanced determines your line of thinking.

To the cretinous Republican who blames his poor spelling on his public education: Why don’t you follow your own party’s directive and pull yourself up by your bootstraps and learn to spell (or take the 5 seconds to send it through a spell checker). And don’t forget be thankful for the teachers who taught you rather than your feral (evidenced by your typical Republican lack of empathy) family.

I like to read the most Liberal to the most Conservative news sources. I don’t watch much TV. The article above is totally bogus. You can make up anything you want and say it is a survey. I have read other surveys that have said exactly the opposite. It almost sickens me how deceitful new sources are. They either don’t cover something they don’t want the public to see or they only pick-out a piece of a story to make a biased article. Media falls into the same catagory as Politians in my book. They are almost all corrupt.

Quite honestly if it were not for Fox News, people would only get a one sided take; and I mean very biased presentation as in from MSNBC. The reason Fox News is number one is because they do present all sides and they don’t create the news, they report it. Too bad MSNBC can’t do the same.

Seems to me that the only thing your article and the major part of the comments that were left proves: Is that those who believe watching Fox news makes you stupid, are progressive liberals that are too self-absorbed and brainwashed by the likes of commentators such as, “Thrill Up My Leg Chris Matthews”…

I will honestly agree that NSNBC leans to the Left and has a liberal bias. (CNN ? NO) But here’s the big difference. They don’t bald face lie and advertise themselves as “Fair and Balanced”. They also don’t try to convince people that they are mainstream, and everybody and everything else is extreme right wing. Murdochs Manipulators would not bother me so much if they were at least honest about who they are and what they are. Don’t piss down my leg and me it’s raining.

I watch Fox News only when there’s no other station with the news on. The obvious conservative bias is annoying and insults my intelligence. I’ve noticed that every doctor’s office has Fox News on in their waiting room. I guess some in the medical business want to brain wash their customers.

This so called poll actually shows that Fox News watchers are 18% more informed, and smarter than the professor and all the dummies who posted in his favor. There was no overthrow of the Egyptian government. The army controlled the government before Mubarack came to power and still does since he left. The professor and all of his supporters who have written in this column are too uninformed to know that. Those who watched Fox News during the uprising know that, so , instead of the claim that watching Fox News will make one less informed and dumbed down, it is, in fact, the complete opposite. Only morons would confuse the opinion shows at night with the hard news broadcast during the day.
The fools who wrote this column aren’t any better informed that the professor who did the poll. If they were, they would have known there was no overthrow of the Egyptian government in the first place.

How many times have you heard Fox News say “So called public option, and government run healthcare”? Does a serious news organization push such a strong opinion for one side or the other? I don’t really care about the money, but you can’t truly be a bipartisan news organization if you’ve donated a million dollars to a specific political party, such as the Republican National Committee…And who except Fox News is against raising taxes on millionares and billionaires, other than conserative radio commentators and Republican politicians. Such as the manatee of the airwaves and part time weather balloon Rush Limbaugh? Do some research, type in Fox News bias on youtube, and keep telling yourself they have the entire countries interest at heart…Also think about how toxic and vile the things they say are compared to anything else you watch on tv.

Talk about slanted views. This New Jersey poll is terrible, the real idiots around here are the people who did the polling. And I believe I have read my last National Memo article. It’s the liberals in DC that will ruin this country.

“It’s the economy sttupid !