Fox News Is Hurting Republicans, Former Bush Official Says

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Honestly though who still gets their news from cable news outlets anymore? CNN, FOX, and MSNBC all have heavy bias. I don't need a talking head telling me how I should feel about anything.
 
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The study, authored by Bruce Bartlett, who worked in the Treasury Department under George H. W. Bush and was also a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan, found that Fox viewers tended to be less informed about current affairs than people who watch mainstream news -- and even people who don't watch the news at all.




Sheesh, you don't need a study to tell you that. Its blatantly obvious.

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Imbeciles, all three of them.
 
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lawgator1 said:
The study, authored by Bruce Bartlett, who worked in the Treasury Department under George H. W. Bush and was also a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan, found that Fox viewers tended to be less informed about current affairs than people who watch mainstream news -- and even people who don't watch the news at all.




Sheesh, you don't need a study to tell you that. Its blatantly obvious.

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Imbeciles, all three of them.
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Study? I don't know how many academic/scientific studies most of you have read but here's the abstract for the "study"

The creation of Fox News in 1996 was an event of deep, yet unappreciated, political and historical importance. For the first time, there was a news source available virtually everywhere in the United States, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a conservative tilt. Finally, conservatives did not have to seek out bits of news favorable to their point of view in liberal publications or in small magazines and newsletters. Like someone dying of thirst in the desert, conservatives drank heavily from the Fox waters. Soon, it became the dominant – and in many cases, virtually the only – major news source for millions of Americans. This has had profound political implications that are only starting to be appreciated. Indeed, it can almost be called self-brainwashing – many conservatives now refuse to even listen to any news or opinion not vetted through Fox, and to believe whatever appears on it as the gospel truth.
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Also, this man's study didn't find anything. He aggregated several other studies' findings.

He did not conduct a study and there is no explanation of methodology of how he picked (or ignored) which studies to include to support his conclusion.

There is nothing in this paper that supports the contention that Fox viewers are less informed than people who don't watch the news.

Finally, he makes it quite clear that there is a strong liberal media bias so if you buy his study better buy it all.
 
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hog88 said:
Stopped watching FNC myself. As far as cable news, what little I watch its CNN and MSNBC with a smattering of CNBC.
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I just got sick of being told how I should feel. I just want the damn news. I am fully capable of drawing my own conclusions.

Most TV media has an agenda to push. It's always about The Money Lebowski
 
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Is it even acceptable to have a vireity on views that land all over the political spectrum anymore. I have views that lean Left. Others that go Right, and I'm even in the middle of the road on a few issues. The world isn't black and white.

The two big political parties and the media has turned elections into nothing more than a damn sports match. Red vs Blue who will win this year?

Hell I am becoming a hardcore cynic
 
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I look at CNN and Foxnews for news. I don't care about the political back and forth because all partisan BS anyways. I read up on the local news from various sources to keep up on the never ending crime in my town. I like drudge as well but like other news sources a lot has to be taken with a grain of salt. I love when they splatter the page in big red letters and its a non story.

When I was in the military we had access to a military news source called "The Earlybird"..I think. It always had some interesting stuff in it. Like the recent "guide-able bullet" the government whipped up, read about that 10 years ago on Earlybird. Can't access it without being on a .mil network though :cray:
 
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dduncan4163 said:
Fox News Is Hurting Republicans, Former Bush Official Says

I had a conservative friend that stopped watching Fox News after the 2012 election. He gets his news online now and actually said Fox is as biased as MSNBC and CBS. The only news on tv he will even give a chance is on ABC.
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Fox, like MSNBC, has too many opinionated programs and not enough actual news reporting. Of course how else can you have 24/7 news channels? It won't be from just reporting news. I would take a dig at FN for sensationalizing a lot of things but then I remember CNN and the missing Malaysia jet and their constant coverage and X-files-esque scenarios..They really jumped the shark on that one.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Fox, like MSNBC, has too many opinionated programs and not enough actual news reporting. Of course how else can you have 24/7 news channels? It won't be from just reporting news. I would take a dig at FN for sensationalizing a lot of things but then I remember CNN and the missing Malaysia jet and their constant coverage and X-files-esque scenarios..They really jumped the shark on that one.
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Oh yeah Political and Tragedy Porn
 
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lawgator1 said:
The study, authored by Bruce Bartlett, who worked in the Treasury Department under George H. W. Bush and was also a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan, found that Fox viewers tended to be less informed about current affairs than people who watch mainstream news -- and even people who don't watch the news at all.




Sheesh, you don't need a study to tell you that. Its blatantly obvious.

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Imbeciles, all three of them.
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That would explain the majority of your posts and threads, God knows you post shiite verbatim according to the fox anchors..
 
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gcbvol said:
NPR is typically very good.
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Only if you like (for the most part) unbiased news given to a respected audience from a non-centric (not even American-centric) viewpoint from a source that is not out to drive pageviews and brainwash viewers.

...if that's your thing then it's typically good.
 
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volinbham said:
Study? I don't know how many academic/scientific studies most of you have read but here's the abstract for the "study"

Also, this man's study didn't find anything. He aggregated several other studies' findings.

He did not conduct a study and there is no explanation of methodology of how he picked (or ignored) which studies to include to support his conclusion.

There is nothing in this paper that supports the contention that Fox viewers are less informed than people who don't watch the news.

Finally, he makes it quite clear that there is a strong liberal media bias so if you buy his study better buy it all.
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Exactly this. Thanks for doing the research so I didn't have to... because it seemed quite obvious the Huffington Post article was actually quite biased itself.

Talk about irony. Lets call another media source biased, while quoting "facts" but presenting none. And ftr... I'm not defending Fox. All media sources for the most part have a bias.
 
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IBlvNTmWrk said:
Exactly this. Thanks for doing the research so I didn't have to... because it seemed quite obvious the Huffington Post article was actually quite biased itself.

Talk about irony. Lets call another media source biased, while quoting "facts" but presenting none. And ftr... I'm not defending Fox. All media sources for the most part have a bias.
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The commentary is correct, however.

Fox News caters to the poorly informed and impressionable, and to those who want to stay that way.

The rest of us watch Fox in a combination of bemusement and horror that anyone is buying it.
 
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lawgator1 said:
The commentary is correct, however.

All cable news caters to the poorly informed and impressionable, and to those who want to stay that way.

The rest of us watch Fox in a combination of bemusement and horror that anyone is buying it.
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fify dimwhit
 
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FNC has too many 1-hour personality driven shows and a morning show that makes "Morning Joe" seem Pulitzer-worthy.

I doubt that it's hurting republicans, though. Boner and McConnell seem bound and determined to destroy the party all by themselves.
 
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volinbham said:
Study? I don't know how many academic/scientific studies most of you have read but here's the abstract for the "study"



Also, this man's study didn't find anything. He aggregated several other studies' findings.

He did not conduct a study and there is no explanation of methodology of how he picked (or ignored) which studies to include to support his conclusion.

There is nothing in this paper that supports the contention that Fox viewers are less informed than people who don't watch the news.

Finally, he makes it quite clear that there is a strong liberal media bias so if you buy his study better buy it all.
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It's a literature review of sorts, I suppose. Easy way for someone to boost their pub numbers, rarely useful to anyone else.
 
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