{"article":{"id":88409,"heading":"Study: FOX News Actually Makes You Stupid","author":"iBalls","created":"2003-10-11 20:25:35","modified":"2005-08-15 01:44:08","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:44:08","article":"<p>Where do you get your information?\r\n<br>\r\nThe Program on International Policy Attitudes has published a report entitled <b>Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War<\/b>.\r\nThey look at common misconceptions held by the American public about the war on Iraq:\r\n<\/p><ul>\r\n<li>There is clear evidence that Iraq had links with Al-Qaeda.<\/li>\r\n<li>The U.S. has found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq since the end of the war.<\/li>\r\n<li>The majority of people in the world favored the U.S. going to war in Iraq.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<br>How many of those do you believe?  If you know that all of those statements are untrue, you probably get your news somewhere other than FOX.  80% of Fox viewers believed one or more of those stinkers to be true, while only 21% of those who get their news from PBS or NPR believed one.  The major news fall in between.<br><br>Furthermore, the report shows the strong correlation between support for the war and belief in these untruths.<br><br>Finally, an analysis of the opinions of respondents based on \"how closely they follow the news\" reveals that close attention to the news media tends to polarize rather than unify public opinion.\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"application\/pdf","summary":"PIPA report examines media complicity in the American public's misperceptions about the war on Iraq.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/10\/media_10_02_03_report.pdf","filesize":"314.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/10\/88409.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}