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Watch all media grow shy or divert the topic when âdoing somethingâ about FOX-led media bullying is mentioned.
Bottom line, all media finds deregulation too profitable to reverse no matter the cost to AmericaâŚAnyway, isnât old media dying or on track to become the trashy, soft porn supermarket tabloid of the 21st century? Plus, considering their track record, why would anyone seek media advice?
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Ah, yet another template headline: âFox News Viewers Are More Uninformed About _______________________â. Just fill in the blank with any topic and you have a valid headline. On the other hand, Fox viewers are not so much uninformed as misinformed. Some uninformed people can figure it out for themselves. Fox viewers never get the chance. Misinformation and disinformation are handed to them on a platter 24/7.
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So the âreanimated religionistsâ donât want a path to citizenship for immigrants? What, is it because they think the country is too full or something? Thereâs plenty of room for everyone. Wait a second, that reminds me of a story I read once about a traveling couple with a baby who kept getting turned away because there was no room. Eventually, I think, someone finally let them sleep in a barn or something? I donât remember all the details. But I suppose itâs not the same thing.
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Fox viewers are more uninformed about EVERYTHING. Except Hasselbeckâs legs.
Benghazi! Berghdahl!
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The headline can be shortened to: The Fox Effect: Viewers Are More Uninformed
Any category of ânewsâ disseminated by fox is politicized hogwash and I am amazed at how the other journalist and news organizations put up with, and at times defends, fox. Foxâs blatant republic party ideology hidden as 'news" is one of the biggest (true) news stories of a generation but nobody will take it on. So weird.
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Tell us something we donât know. This is a total waste of space.
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I didnât need a study to tell me thisâŚbut it does clear up the issue for the misinformedâŚToo bad they wonât be reading or hearing about it anytime soon. The hermetically-sealed faux universe that has been created for these whacko-birds wonât allow it to seep inâŚso theyâll never know how misinformed they truly are. Ironic huh?
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Consider that what the report means is, there is absolutely no way in hell that republicans will pass any sort of immigration reform this year, with their base so locked into ignorance.
Immigration reform has now become a âblue/redâ issue on which identify politics will trump any actual proposed legislation or plans. Doesnât matter what ever is in it, if its called âImmigration Reformâ it will have zero republican support.
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Their baseâs ignorance and stupidity is a feature, not a bug, for the Rethugs. Itâs a significant, if not the largest, part of the reason theyâve been doing their damnedest to destroy the public education system in this country.
Shorter me: Stupid states vote Republican.
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One of the more disturbing qualities of our friends on the Right is their unwillingness to so much as look at primary sources.
Everything they know, or think they know, has to be âsanitizedâ for them of any information that might not support their party line, and otherwise tailored to fit a right-wing narrative.
So itâs not simply that theyâre getting their information from unreliable sources (Fox, Rush, et al.), but also that theyâve been conned into distrusting the most reliable sources.
For example, they trust oil company shills over scientistsâand they have scores of reasons for doing so, all ridiculous, but real to them.
Or their insistence that polls showing Obama ahead in the 2012 election (i.e., almost all of them) were biasedâas if there were some point in paying good money for a poll to get inaccurate information.
The idea that you could simply perform the back-breaking labor of personally checking facts and their contexts yourself (i.e., a couple of mouse-clicks) and then actually do your own thinkingâis really beyond them. So we have a large percentage of the population whose ability to think at all is grossly atrophied. (Anyone who doubts this is welcome to review the comments on Yahoo News.)
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Fill the blank in with âEVERYTHING!â
I have these fantasies where someone who works at Fox (Kelly or Hasselbeck or Doocie) comes into my restaurant (I donât own a restaurant or work at one, but I have this fantasy) just so I can look around, see several empty tables and tell them, âIâm sorry, weâre completely booked tonight.â
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Thatâs what makes them the âletâs end this godless Agenda 21 YooEnn plot called âCommon Coreâ and develop our own state wide standard consisting of locking kids up in a Charter School thatâs distinguishable from a Madrassa only through choice of holy bookâ party.
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Short form of the Article: FOX News Makes you STUPID.
There fixed it for you.
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Wasnât that the family that the story said eventually had to immigrate to a different country, Egypt I believe, due to problems in their home country?
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The central point you missed is how this unmarried couple with the unwanted pregnancy actually drew illegal immigrants from far away into the country. Granted, these were the rich gift-giving kind of illegals, but illegals nonetheless.
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Except their bases ignorance on this issue actually hurts them in this cases as it forces them into a position that will serve to alienate one of the fastest growing demographic groups in the country which hurts their long term viability as a party. So in this case the bases ignorance helps the Democrats, at least in the long term.
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Thatâs silly. Laws donât apply to rich people.
42% of Republicans who trust Fox News believe in a path to citizenshipâŚanyone else think thatâs much higher than expected? Like they sometimes even have trouble misinforming their most devoted audience?
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