{"id":5674,"date":"2011-12-08T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:12:46","slug":"fox-news-makes-you-stoopid-it-turns-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/fox-news-makes-you-stoopid-it-turns-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Makes You Stoopid, It Turns Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in New Jersey who watch Sunday Morning News Shows know more about stuff than the average person, and people who get their &#8220;information&#8221; mainly from Fox News know the least, according to a Fairleight Dickenson University poll.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In themost recent study, the poll asked New Jerseyans about current events at home andabroad, and from what sources \u2013 if any \u2013 they get their information&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>New Jerseyans were asked about the outcome of the uprisings inNorth Africa and the Middle East this past year. While 53% of New Jerseyans know thatEgyptians were successful in overthrowing the government of Hosni Mubarak, 21% saythat the uprisings were unsuccessful, and 26% admit they don\u2019t know. Also, 48% knowthat the Syrian uprising has thus far been unsuccessful, while 36% say they don\u2019t know,and 16% say the Syrians have already toppled their government.But the real finding is that the results depend on what media sources people turn to fortheir news. For example, people who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hourcable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew theirgovernment than those who watch no news at all&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/73377350\/Fairleigh-Dickinson-University-Public-Mind-Poll\">See more details on this totally expected result here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in New Jersey who watch Sunday Morning News Shows know more about stuff than the average person, and people who get their &#8220;information&#8221; mainly from Fox News know the least, according to a Fairleight Dickenson University poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1tw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}