Just caught this on Lawrence O'Donnell's show last night. A new study concludes Fox News viewers are considerably less informed than viewers of other cable news networks.
Here's a list of falsehoods and the percentage of Fox News viewers who believe the hooey.
--Most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (Fox News viewers 12 percentage points more likely to believe this)
--Most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points more likely)
--The economy is getting worse (26 points more likely)
--Most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points more likely)
--The stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points more likely)
--Their own income taxes have gone up (14 points more likely)
--The auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points more likely)
--When TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points more likely)
--And that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points more likely)
I know, I know. Obvious, right? But it's a dynamic we need to monitor, because the louder they get about these falsehoods, the more mainstream the falsehoods become. Did you notice how rapidly the falsehood that "government should act like a family tightening its belt around the dinner table" permeated into the mainstream?