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Box A Rox
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Another study has concluded that people who only watch Fox News are less informed than all other
news consumers.


Researchers at Fairleigh Dickinson University updated a study they had conducted in late 2011.
That study only sampled respondents from New Jersey, where the university is located. This time,
the researchers conducted a nationwide poll.

The poll asked questions about international news (Iran, Egypt, Syria and Greece were included)
and domestic affairs (Republican primaries, Congress, unemployment and the Keystone XL pipeline.)

The pollsters found that people were usually able to answer 1.8 out of 4 questions on foreign news,
and 1.6 of 5 questions on domestic news, and that people who don't watch any news were able to
get 1.22 of the questions on domestic policy right.

As the study explained, though, people who watched only Fox News fared worse:

The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News
would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly -- a figure which is significantly
worse than if they had reported watching no media at all.
On the other hand, if they listened only
to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly;
viewers of Sunday morning talk
shows fare similarly well. And people watching only "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" could answer
about 1.42 questions correctly.

"Some News Leaves People Knowing Less"
http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Wow, box going back to his bread and butter.  Scanning left wing websites looking to cut and past articles bashing FOX NEWS.  He scored again.


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UH OH.............boxy is being eaten up and spit out, so he has to 'create' a liberal wacko thread!!!

There must be JEWS on FOX and that is clearly why boxy would hate them!!!!

this thread is called a 'BOXY RE-DIRECT'!!!!!


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
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Wow, box going back to his bread and butter.  Scanning left wing websites looking to cut and past articles bashing FOX NEWS.  He scored again.


This is from Fairleigh Dickinson University, studying an issue that they considered important.

They didn't know what the results would be, they just put together a group of questions and compiled
the data.  
This data by the way reinforces a study by another group that had similar results.

If you don't like the message... Cicero attacks the messenger... not the message.



The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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If you don't like the message... Cicero attacks the messenger... not the message.



A lesson learned from the liberal wacko's!!!!!
Although it is very hard to distinquish between the messanger and the message since boxy cuts and pastes EVERYTHING!!! Not even one independent working brain cell....awwwwww!!!


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
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Another University Study: Fox Viewers More Misinformed

From December 2010, another study from the University of Maryland with the same results:

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It was not a matter of partisan self-selection. Democrats who watched Fox, as well as Republicans,
came away misled and misinformed.


http://www.usnews.com/opinion/.....ers-more-misinformed


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From December 2010


Digging in the archives now eh boxy???

Is that the best ya got?  


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
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John A. Farrell
John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.



When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
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AGAIN FOLKS.................a boxy, the JEW HATER........re-direct!!!!


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
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Digging in the archives now eh boxy???

Is that the best ya got?  


Yes Bumbler... the FACTS are the best I got...
and you???  
You are welcome to dispute these FACTS... I'm open to any reasonable FACTS that counter these studies.
Who knows the studies may be wrong... Post what ya got...
or
or maybe...
or maybe YA JUST GOT NUTTIN' AND YOU'RE BLUFFING!


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If you don't like the message... Cicero attacks the messenger... not the message.



Message is from obscure study from 2011...So I repeat...Box goes to scanning websites for most recent articles attacking Fox News.  It was a one year old article.  

The study should research how misinformed forum trolls are that post old news articles citing ideologically motivated studies.


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Keep copy and pasting and re-directing boxy!!!


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
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Message is from obscure study from 2011...So I repeat...Box goes to scanning websites for most recent articles attacking Fox News.  It was a one year old article.  

The study should research how misinformed forum trolls are that post old news articles citing ideologically motivated studies.


2010 study! 2 years old!!!

since then FOX is blowing the rest of the lame stream media out of the water...and why? Face it....the sheople are sick and tired of the other half of the lame stream media.


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
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John A. Farrell
John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.


The study has no connection to Farrell, except he, like most media, posted the study by the
university of Maryland.

This is the Seventh Study to find Fox Viewers are Most Miss-informed.


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Try this Fox News Viewers
Poll: 15 percent of Ohio Republicans credit Romney for killing Osama bin Laden

http://www.examiner.com/articl.....ling-osama-bin-laden



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