Note the date of this "study".
Democrats use biased 'study' to smear Fox News
May 24, 2012
Another painstakingly objective and impartial academic institution has abandoned all integrity to vindictively trash Fox News and peddle the partisan smear that anyone who watches "right-wing propaganda" (anything that includes multiple sides of the story) is stupid.
This time, it's an under-performing, bottom-of-the-barrel school, Fairleigh Dickinson University (Forbes rated it No. 585 out of 650 colleges), and a new "study" pretending to find that Fox News viewers are the least informed...and even less informed than those who don't watch any news.
The only problem with this (other than the fact that it flies in the face of what any reasonable, thinking adult who has had the misfortune of 'debating' with a liberal has experienced), of course, is that it's based on embarrassingly unscientific methodology and a blatantly partisan spinning of the numbers.
According to the report, 1,185 people were asked a series of current events questions on everything from the removal of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, to the latest unemployment rate. Every group got about one question right in each category.
For instance, Fox viewers answered an average of 1.04 domestic questions correctly, while NPR listeners got an average of 1.51 right. This difference is virtually non-existent, and well within the margin of error...and the report admits to deliberately over-sampling Republicans, thereby creating a much larger margin of error only for that group.
But that isn't stopping our left-wing noise machine of a news media from using this "study" to baselessly slander Fox News, while propping up NPR with the idea that we really do need taxpayer-funded Marxist propaganda (as I have documented here and here).
Incidentally, even if you accept the glaringly arbitrary, subjective premise of measuring news outlets by negligible differences in how their audiences answer nine random questions that are open to interpretation and being graded presumably by card-carrying Democrats, this "study" actually indicates that MSNBC is the outlet to avoid, not Fox.
As The Blaze's Erica Ritz explains:
"The people who ended up the most misinformed were conservatives who made the mistake of watching MSNBC. The only people who ended up misinformed after watching Fox, on the other hand, were liberals."
Additionally, Rush Limbaugh is also apparently more informative than NPR, according to this study.
But don't let that get in the way. Fox News has become an obstacle to Democrat power (the only thing liberals actually stand for), by offering consumers something other than liberal talking points and utterly dominating the competition (the American people are right-of-center)...so it must be silenced.
And since liberals only have two responses to intellectual confrontation: "You're mean" (which includes, 'You're racist') and "You're stupid"...Fox News viewers must be slandered for the umpteenth time as uninformed chumps, contrary to all the evidence (like actual, scientific studies, by places anyone has actually heard of, that consistently show Fox viewers are more informed).
Here is how this bogus "study" and its "findings" are being reported by our neutral, unbiased news media:
Huffington Post: "Study Finds Fox News Viewers Least Informed of All Viewers"
The L.A. Times: "Fox News Viewers Less Informed About Current Events, Study Shows"
The Nation: "It's Official: Watching Fox News Makes You Stupider"
NY Daily News: "Fox News Viewers Less Informed Than Those Who Don't Watch News at All: Study"
...and so on.
The bottom line is that liberals cannot debate the issues, so they constantly have to resort to sleazy, dishonest tactics like this to silence the opposition. They've done this to the Tea Party movement repeatedly as well, but then always act shocked when even their own slanted criteria don't produce the bigoted partisan narrative they're trying to manufacture (as I have noted).
http://www.examiner.com/article/leftists-use-fake-biased-study-to-smear-fox-news