Friday, February 22, 2019

Vagne - Fox News Hound

5020   PM:   Vagne   [Quote]     -- 8:04am -- Fri, Feb 22, 19 pst

Vagne

 . . . .  I'm following Hannity . . . .



Vagne probably is unaware that studies have shown -- those who get their news from Fox are MORE LIKELY to cling to falsehoods as the truth than are consumers of reputable news sources.



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"Overall, the results determined that Democrats and Independents tended to be better at discerning fact from fiction, with 60 percent and 59 percent, respectively, accurately picking factual statements from falsehoods.



Republicans, on average, were able to discern factual statements at a 52 percent clip, just slightly below the national average of all adults, regardless of political affiliation, at 55 percent."





https://thenextweb.com/media/2018/12/15/cable-news-consumers-more-likely-to-believe-political-falsehoods-poll/





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"Among adults who say Fox News is one of their top two sources for political news, 33 percent believe in Trump’s false claims tested in the poll, on average, compared with 21 percent of those who say Fox is not a main news source."



https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/political-knowledge-poll-trump-falsehoods/?utm_term=.62e3299c34fc









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