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The information coming out of the Pew Research poll suggests that viewers of Fox News live in a bubble or under a rock. They appear to constitute a cult whose view of events in the world is totally dependent upon what a few news and opinion personalities at Fox tell them. Although such narrow-mindedness is disturbing in itself, it is rendered more ominous for our country's well-being by the evidence which indicates that Fox's so-called "journalists" routinely and intentionally inflict one hoax after another on the cult.
The 2005/2006 Annual Editions college textbook devoted to World Politics contained a chapter by me titled: "Democracy or Dominion." It provided an overview of American history from a specific perspective: "When the American public pays little attention to political affairs, it pays a price. The question today is the same as it has been earlier in U. S. history - how great a price?"
One specific paragraph in that chapter addressed the comparatively stupefying effect of obtaining news from television rather than print media. Most stupefying of all, however, was what passed for "news" at Fox News.
I wrote, "A study dated October 2, 2003, by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) titled "Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War," found that the audiences of Fox News, CNN, and the three major TV networks had more demonstrable misperceptions about the war in Iraq than did readers of the print media, To nobody's surprise the viewers of Fox News, which broadcast the most blatantly pro-war coverage, resulted in the highest percentage of misperceptions of that war. (Annual Editions 2005-2006, World Politic, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2006, p.78).
Another PIPA study, conducted in 2010, once again found that Fox News viewers were the most misinformed of all consumers of news. According to reporting by Mark Howard, as published by AlterNet on December 15, 2010, "In eight of the nine questions below, Fox News placed first in the percentage of those who were misinformed (they placed second in the question on TARP). That's a pretty high batting average for journalistic fraud. Here is a list of what Fox News viewers believe that just aint so:
 § 91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
 § 72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
 § 72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
 § 60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
 § 49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
 § 63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts
 § 56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
 § 38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
 § 63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is unclear)
The conclusion is inescapable. Fox News is deliberately misinforming its viewers and it is doing so for a reason. Every issue above is one in which the Republican Party had a vested interest" ("Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid").
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