Fox News Viewers Are Less Informed Than People Who Don't Watch Any News

When Murdoch approached Nixon in 1972 with his idea of a propaganda source masquerading as a geniune news outlet, Nixon reportedly  said, "No one will watch it. People aren't that dumb."
Wrong again, Dick.
Close to 2 million people regularly get their misinformation from a source that is not considered news at all by people who read books and other print media.
2 million out of three hundred million Americans is a small number, but it just goes to show, there IS a sucker born every minute.
This is why odd people such as Cain, Romney and the other idiots that run the "GOP" can get away with their ridiculous statements and outright lies.
Their base is the most uniformed segment of society.
MFB
Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that "people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government" and "6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government" compared to those who watch no news.
Overall, 53% of all respondents knew that Egyptians successfully overthrew Hosni Mubarak and 48% knew that Syrians have yet to overthrow their government.
Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, explained in a statement, "Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News. Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."
This isn't the first study that has found that Fox News viewers more misinformed in comparison to others. Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics.