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Both of those entities are news stations that own a website, not websites that run a TV station. The website is 10% of the picture. More importantly.. check
by yourbandsucks 8y ago
Both of those entities are news stations that own a website, not websites that run a TV station. The website is 10% of the picture.
More importantly.. check the results. A majority of Fox News viewers believe things like Obama was born in Kenya, or Saddam Hussein really had WMD, despite these being obviously false. Multiple studies by different organizations have indicated that Fox News viewers are less informed than no news viewers on any political topic involving 'alternative facts'.
The proof is in the pudding.
- oh_sigh 8y agoAre the 'fox news viewers' there for the journalists, or there for O'Reilly, Hannity, etc - which is exactly what I was talking about. And you're taking a correlation and trying to say there is causation, which is invalid.
- yourbandsucks 8y agoYou're right, I was making a hard assumption that people's news sources inform their views on facts that are in the news. I suppose it's also possible that the viewers have already decided they'd prefer to believe lies, and choose their news source accordingly. Doesn't exactly acquit the news station.
- oh_sigh 8y agoThe assumption was that 'fox news' viewers view fox news for the news, and not for the opinion section, which is what I referenced in my first post in this thread. If Fox News news and CNN news are equally as informative, and Fox News opinion and CNN opinion are equally as un or anti-informative, it is still possible for Fox News viewers to be less informed than CNN viewers, if say 80% of Fox News audience tunes in for opinion section, vs only 50% of CNN audience tuning in for the opinion section.