It’s not an accident that FOX viewers are, to put it kindly, badly informed.
…Fox viewers were almost four times more likely than public broadcasting’s consumers to hold misperceptions about the war
…72% of self-identified Fox News viewers believe the health-care plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants, 79% of them say it will lead to a government takeover, 69% think that it will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and 75% believe that it will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing care for the elderly…
…hosts and guests on several Fox News programs hyped a false assertion by Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Peter Hoekstra that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, despite the network’s own reporting that discredited the claim…
…75% of Fox News viewers believe false death panels claims…
And on and