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How come a new poll shows Fox "News" viewers are the least informed?

* 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)

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/br...

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  • R T
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    And you believe everything you read on the internet? Who's not informed?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Holy crap. 63% are birthers? That doesn't bode well at all. I wonder what amount of MSNBC viewers are truthers? I'm guessing somewhere between 40% and 50%.

  • 1 decade ago

    I gather by your question that you believe that none of those polling items are true, so therefore, Fox viewers must be ill-informed. I would start by questioning your own sources of knowledge and whether or not these things really are true because some of them definitely are.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because some people like to make assumptions about how millions of viewers act, when there are only 848 people polled.

    Maybe if this was an official census, I would believe it, but when a poll has so few participants, plus it's done over the internet, it loses it's credibility there.

    Shenanigans

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  • 1 decade ago

    To call them the “Least Informed”... You have to compared their results to the results of other groups. All I see you presenting are raw numbers out of content not compared with any other groups.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    OK. So it looks like they miss the mark on a couple of items, but are dead on with most of them.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    OKAY - so you pick a far left publication that probably does a gazillion such "polls" and only picks the ones that make anyone who is conservative look like a fool. Right.........whatever.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because Fox does not tell them the truth and they believe it any way.

    Merry Christmas

    RRR

  • 1 decade ago

    Fox viewers, or not, most people are horribly uninformed in general.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    How does that show they are least informed? It shows they are100% informed

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if you had read the entire page you would see their sample was 848 people...idk how any poll that small and biased could be taken seriously...

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