do only 3 points better in the survey than do the Fox News Channel viewers.

Many of my acquaintances have simply stopped watching the standard half hour of evening network news. The fluff, the spin, the lack of context, and the large number of commercials seem to make these network dinosaurs a waste of time.

It seems that only the already low information viewers now depend on the evening news shows for information. Doing so isn't doing these viewers much good--at least according to this survey.

It's almost without content.

Folks who watch Bill Orally also have "high knowledge", and to watch him, you have to watch Fox News.

That being said, I think there are a lot of people who watch Fox in the morning to get the weather, sports scores, Hollywood gossip, but tune out the politics.

One observation that I have made is that conservative newspapers seem to have much better sports pages than so called "liberal" newspapers.

It says lots about the content on Fox when Bill O'Reily is considered their shining star. O'Reily does regularly cover big topics, albeit with a right wing slant.

As much as I'd like to think people are knowledgeable because they watch the Daily Show, I'd imagine it's the other way around -- the Daily Show's viewers have to be  knowledgeable, because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.

There's also an audience size bias here -- the bigger the audience, the more likely it is your audience's knowledge will regress to the American average.  Daily Show, NewsHour, and O'Reilly all have comparatively tiny audiences next to all network morning shows, all local news programs, all daily newspapers, etc.

Yes, those are very good questions.  I was using a teaser headline, just to get people to read the study.  As you clearly know, correlation does not mean causality. And I noticed an income correlation was made -- but income I think correlates with education anyway.  People who do statistics can often sort these things out -- but on these "dummy variable" issues I'm invariably a dummy.  My wife is the math head.  Maybe Kathy Gerber will chime in at some point. 

... all my knowledge of statistics comes from baseball.  I'm about as sharp as those safety scissors they give you in kindergarten.

Studies show the vast majority of Fox viewers think Sadaam Hussain had a role in 9-11, or even planned it.

Not to mention they were told page-boy stalker Mark Foley is a Democrat and lots of other Faux News.

A new study based on a series of seven US polls conducted from January through September of 2003 reveals that before and after the Iraq war, a majority of Americans have had significant misperceptions and these are highly related to support for the war in Iraq.

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