Survey: People Who Watch No News Know More Than Fox Viewers

[Winehole23]

The more you drive,the less intelligent you are

[DarkReign]

If you watch cable news much you're probably an idiot regardless of the channel of your choice. Bottom line in my book.

We have a winner. The only news I watch is local news. Even then I have probably already read about it beforehand.

I was listening to NPR today (OOOOOO! Liberal boogeyman!) on the Diane Rehm show and one of her guests made a very good point about American politics in general.

Negotiation and compromise is impossible in this country because no side can even agree on the facts.

Intentionally so, IMO. Thats what FOX News and the liberal equivalent are out to do. Obscure the truth in partisan rhetoric and get as many people as possible on the screen all agreeing with one another.

When I watched cable news election coverage in 2008, I was incredibly tickled by the shear volume of people each network puts on the screen all at once. They would have 12 different people split into 3 rows of 4 across the screen. Literally, all of them just circle-jerk each other and the chosen party and never even feign impartiality.

That Americans fall for this is laughable and you must laugh, otherwise you'll just be upset all the time.

[JohnnyMarzetti]

If you get your news from the web you are an idiot too. It is all biased in some form or fashion.

[DarkReign]

If you get your news from the web you are an idiot too. It is all biased in some form or fashion.

Then I am an idiot.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

If you get your news from the web you are an idiot too. It is all biased in some form or fashion.

if you cannot understand how written commentary is less inflammatory in general over the spoken word I really do not know what to tell you.

I prefer my news written and get videos of the events themselves. Watching a staged studio production is something completely different. I do not allow others to do my thinking for me. I only watch TV for sports and that is all recorded on a delay unless I am out and about.

Allowing Fox News spoonfeed you their demagoguery for hours on end is nothing like grabbing the CSM, National Review, Foreign Affairs, the Economist or any number of publication and deciding which articles you are going to read.

The web is not the uniform, commercialized and party-politicized piece of that cable news is.

[Huey Freeman]

If you watch cable news much you're probably an idiot regardless of the channel of your choice. Bottom line in my book.

Stupidest I read in a long time. Like it matters if you get your news from a biased news channel or a biased news blog.
Or do you think its better to go to sites like CNN.com

[Huey Freeman]

if you cannot understand how written commentary is less inflammatory in general over the spoken word I really do not know what to tell you.

I prefer my news written and get videos of the events themselves. Watching a staged studio production is something completely different. I do not allow others to do my thinking for me. I only watch TV for sports and that is all recorded on a delay unless I am out and about.

Allowing Fox News spoonfeed you their demagoguery for hours on end is nothing like grabbing the CSM, National Review, Foreign Affairs, the Economist or any number of publication and deciding which articles you are going to read.

The web is not the uniform, commercialized and party-politicized piece of that cable news is.

I have read hundreds of biased written commentary on the internet, and I have seen hundreds of unbiased news feeds on TV.

Whats your point?

[Winehole23]

I was listening to NPR today (OOOOOO! Liberal boogeyman!) on the Diane Rehm show

Best current events talk on radio. I'm unaware of any contenders.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I have read hundreds of biased written commentary on the internet, and I have seen hundreds of unbiased news feeds on TV.

Whats your point?

that you are much better rounded than those that get their news from one source?

I feel that television in terms of news is the worst of the worst as it pertains to commercialization. if you have indeed done as you have claimed you see a genization of what the major and cable news networks provide as their stories.

The go to the front pages of the publications that i just listed and look at the content. There is a lot more there. I also do not see the like Lohan and white girl killed overseas du jour like you see on CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS and the like. Its just the nature of the mediums themselves.

I get to activelyt participate in the news selection process when you read verus when you watch you are beholden to what they show you. I dnon't like people thinking for me much at all.

[Huey Freeman]

that you are much better rounded than those that get their news from one source?

I feel that television in terms of news is the worst of the worst as it pertains to commercialization. if you have indeed done as you have claimed you see a genization of what the major and cable news networks provide as their stories.

The go to the front pages of the publications that i just listed and look at the content. There is a lot more there. I also do not see the like Lohan and white girl killed overseas du jour like you see on CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS and the like. Its just the nature of the mediums themselves.

I get to actively participate in the news selection process when you read verus when you watch you are beholden to what they show you. I don't like people thinking for me much at all.

I understand where your coming from, but to say an individual who gets majority of the news from TV news is somehow less informed then the people who obtains their news from internet blogs is absurd. News shows like "The FOX Report" can give you the same amount of information any internet blog can give you.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I understand where your coming from, but to say an individual who gets majority of the news from TV news is somehow less informed then the people who obtains their news from internet blogs is absurd. News shows like "The FOX Report" can give you the same amount of information any internet blog can give you.

Sorry but Fox Report is limited by if nothing else the time spot and the rate at which people can talk and be understood by the LCD. Compare that to the AP wire as a whole and its not even close.

For example http://www.ap.org/. Run a query on any subject and you are going ot get a of a lot more news on said subject versus a syndicated hour long TV show.

More importantly it requires more thought to go through the articles and you actually have to think to get the information.

Fox News spoonfeeds you so you don't have to think at all. You are even told what is important and what is not important. AP doesn't do that you have to decide for yourself. The latter is a much more responsible approach.

[scott]

Best current events talk on radio. I'm unaware of any contenders.

Your really think so? I think Diane Rehm is a phenomenal reporter who can ask great questions... but really she sounds like she is about to die and is almost unintelligible sometimes. I think she needs to move into an off-air production role.

[Winehole23]

Yeah, I really think so. I can get past the quavery voice.

[boutons_deux]

Rehm's horrible voice is a difficult distraction to ignore.

[Winehole23]

gfy, boutons. you're so trite.

[boutons_deux]

"Sorry but Fox ... is limited "

... to whatever Repug/right-wing/xenophobe propaganda Murdoch's s bag Roger Ailes wants to pimp.

[DarkReign]

Yeah, I really think so. I can get past the quavery voice.

Same. She doesnt look that old, but she sounds like shes got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

[DarrinS]

Your really think so? I think Diane Rehm is a phenomenal reporter who can ask great questions... but really she sounds like she is about to die and is almost unintelligible sometimes. I think she needs to move into an off-air production role.

Who?

[DarkReign]

Who?

Unsurprising.

[MannyIsGod]

Stupidest I read in a long time. Like it matters if you get your news from a biased news channel or a biased news blog.
Or do you think its better to go to sites like CNN.com

You watch 24 hours of cable news and ill access the internet for an hour and well see who comes out more informed. Factually informed.

[MannyIsGod]

Unsurprising.

Lol

[MannyIsGod]

I understand where your coming from, but to say an individual who gets majority of the news from TV news is somehow less informed then the people who obtains their news from internet blogs is absurd. News shows like "The FOX Report" can give you the same amount of information any internet blog can give you.

Lol oh really? Post a video of any fox report episode and I guarantee I will find far more technical and detailed info on its subject via blogs. I can't believe you had the nerve to post this after calling me stupid.

[DarrinS]

Unsurprising.

Sorry, not an NPR fan. Good for insomnia though.

[ChumpDumper]

Sorry, not an NPR fan. Good for insomnia though.

Unsurprising.