FOX News Viewers Likely to Believe False Info

Time: 21.09

This video is uploaded to HowTheWorldWorks website sponsored by Mr. Lee Doren, an attorney and political activist. He was formerly a liberal member of an environmental lobbying organization, though his views became more conservative as he got older. This critique is definitely 'wonkish', as it examines the detailed minutia of charts, tables and data from several sources. It shows how the political strategy is made to introduce a simple idea based upon questionable facts which the public trusts as true and is not.

A recent study from the University of Maryland and WordPublicOpinion.org supposedly shows that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about American politics.

  

After looking at the supposed 'myths' that Fox News watchers believe, Lee quickly realized that something was wrong with the study. As a result, Lee read the study very carefully and realized that the whole study was bogus.

Overall, the study about misinformation and the 2010 election did not have data to support its conclusions. In fact, the study may simply demonstrate that Fox News viewers are more informed than the researchers. It was clear that the researchers were unaware of most of the data provided to the public.

When conducting this research Lee looked at a variety of sources. Most of the sources can clearly be seen in the video itself. Below is his attempt to list all the sources in no particular order that he reviewed. (Some sources were not used at all.)

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pip...

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pip...

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pip...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12...

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo....

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/16/p...

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1370

http://www.alternet.org/story/149193/...

http://gawker.com/5714669/science-the...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001...

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/e...

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com...

http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=546

http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=1034

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/113xx/doc1...

http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/28/def...

http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-...

http://patterico.com/2010/12/17/world...

http://johnnydollar.us/files/101219fh...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-...

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lach...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxMZ1...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opi...

http://www.verumserum.com/?p=19990

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01...

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/news/...

http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/u...

http://econjwatch.org/articles/econom...

http://reason.org/blog/show/did-most-...

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/06/07/m...

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/27...

http://rasmusen1.blogspot.com/2009/01...

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john....

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...

http://www.theatlantic.com