Your perception of reality? It's shaped by your news source
By: Steve Jordahl
Fair and balanced Fox News truly is the most trusted name in news. The lamestream media is a tool of the secular progressive left and their agenda. People who watch Fox News are smarter for it.
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Your perception of reality? It's shaped by your news source: survey
People who regularly watch Fox News are much more likely to get the facts about current topics right than those who watch more liberal outlets. That's revealed in a recently published nationwide survey of 2,000 likely U.S. voters.
How individuals answer various questions influences their communities and their country – questions such as: How large is the national debt? How many unarmed black men did police shoot last year? How long until humanity becomes extinct if nothing is done about alleged "climate change"?
According to a Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll , more viewers of Fox News knew the right answers when compared with people who watch CNN, MSNBC, and similar outlets. Justin Haskins of The Heartland Institute explains that's because liberal media outlets are more interested in changing people's minds than reporting the facts.
"People who consume media that is run [and] controlled by people on the left are much more likely to get the facts wrong," he begins. "It's because they're not really getting the facts; they're getting the narrative – and the narrative is shaping their view of the world."
In his opinion, that accounts for the fact that often the Left and Right can't even agree on the basic facts of a story.
"People who are regularly consuming left-leaning media and people who are regularly consuming right-leaning media are living essentially in two different universes with two totally different perceptions of reality," he adds.
To those on the Left, he argues, the details don't really matter all that much.
"I think people on the Left are more likely to believe that their overarching ideology is correct …," he continues. "The important thing [to them] is that we move people in the right direction – and if we have to sort of mislead in order to get there, that's okay: the ends justify the means."
The poll found, for example, that when compared to viewers of Fox News, viewers of news outlets like CNN and MSNBC are "substantially more likely" to believe that if CO2 emissions continue to increase at recent rates, humans will "become completely or nearly extinct" due to climate change within the next century.
As the survey points out, there's no evidence that will happen – even among those who are greatly concerned about "climate change."
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Bullshit article. I read the news, I don't watch ANY news, not even local news.
The Heartland Institute has long been nothing but a propaganda outlet for the far right wing. The anti science climate change deniers all received their training there.
Many studies over the years have shown that Fox viewers are much less informed on current events than folk who watch no news whatsoever.
Many studies also show that Fox viewers have extremely less education (high school dropouts) and are considerably older and less mentally capable than non Fox viewers. (college graduates).