Is Fox News bad for you?

MinnesotaBrant

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I go to McDonalds a lot and that is what they all have on their flat screens 24/7. Basically Fox news is full on conservative hosts who spend a great deal of time reading all the hate mail they get as proof that they are doing a good job. Are there many Fox news lovers here I wonder? How many haters?
 
MNBrant said:
I go to McDonalds a lot and that is what they all have on their flat screens 24/7. Basically Fox news is full on conservative hosts who spend a great deal of time reading all the hate mail they get as proof that they are doing a good job. Are there many Fox news lovers here I wonder? How many haters?
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I don't watch TV news. That the fact it is on television makes it suspect. Editorial policies are at the core driven by the marketplace. Fox news is for a segment of the population. This is news?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
It may not be bad for you, but it is bad for us as a county.
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For some people, it's always disturbing when we have divergent editorial policies on news media. You would think we actually have a working first amendment in the US. :rolleyes:

Seriously, I would find it rather Orwellian if all our news media sounded the same.
 
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psionl0 said:
I don't know about fox news per se but I bet spending a lot of time at McDonalds watching fox news isn't good for your health.
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One attacks the mind, the other attacks the intestinal tract. The mind attack is easier to resist because you can think about what you see. Your stomach on the other hand has no brain.................
 
Google this: "Fox News makes you stupid".

You will find a Rolling Stone article summarizing a Fairleigh Dickinson University study.

Track down the study to find that Fox News viewers score lower on knowledge of current events than people who don't watch any news at all.

Fox News - Is being stupid bad for you?
 
fishbob said:
Google this: "Fox News makes you stupid".

You will find a Rolling Stone article summarizing a Fairleigh Dickinson University study.

Track down the study to find that Fox News viewers score lower on knowledge of current events than people who don't watch any news at all.

Fox News - Is being stupid bad for you?
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And this clearly proves that you can't distinguish correlation vs causation, yet you call others "stupid".

Large parts of FNC are IMO awful, however they seem the be the only substantial counterpoint to the Obama sycophantic, "let's bury the problems", side of the infotainment press. There is virtually no sane critical discussion of Obama foreign policy, economic policy or social policy anywhere.

Sadly we've devolved into the Left only proposing insulting slurs and ridiculous strawmen args against the Right and the Right beating the brush for scandals and closet-skeletons and conspiracy theories against the Left.

You are just creating heat and no light with this thread.
 
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stevea said:
And this clearly proves that you can't distinguish correlation vs causation, yet you call others "stupid".

Large parts of FNC are IMO awful, however they seem the be the only substantial counterpoint to the Obama sycophantic, "let's bury the problems", side of the infotainment press. There is virtually no sane critical discussion of Obama foreign policy, economic policy or social policy anywhere.

Sadly we've devolved into the Left only proposing insulting slurs and ridiculous strawmen args against the Right and the Right beating the brush for scandals and closet-skeletons and conspiracy theories against the Left.

You are just creating heat and no light with this thread.
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I clearly separated the headline from the study.
You clearly didn't read any of the source material.

ETA - thinking about your causation vs correlation comment:
In the case of causation, turning off Fox should stop the loss of brain function.
In the case of correlation, turning off Fox would allow the viewers to stop self-identifying as mentally challenged.
 
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If that's the only station you ever watch, then yes. I check it out from time to time for contrast, to find out what lies they are spewing now about whatever current event.

However, I will say without irony that the web page does occasionally have some good science reporting. Yes... I know...
 
MontagK505 said:
For some people, it's always disturbing when we have divergent editorial policies on news media. You would think we actually have a working first amendment in the US. :rolleyes:

Seriously, I would find it rather Orwellian if all our news media sounded the same.
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Where do you draw the line though between free press and the freedom to knowingly tell outright lies and call it news?

Have you seen the paid-for-anything-you-want-to-say news in India India: 'Paid news' scandal hits major newspapers

But the OP question wasn't, should it be allowed, the question was, is it harmful?
 
MontagK505 said:
For some people, it's always disturbing when we have divergent editorial policies on news media. You would think we actually have a working first amendment in the US. :rolleyes:

Seriously, I would find it rather Orwellian if all our news media sounded the same.
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I find the idea that objective reporting and unbiased information transmission being generally rejected out-of-hand in preference for slanted and heavily biased reporting that doubles as marketing for a particular social agenda to be perverse and more truly Orwellian than all the mainstream news media sounding similar in their reporting of objective fact and information.
 
Trakar said:
I find the idea that objective reporting and unbiased information transmission being generally rejected out-of-hand in preference for slanted and heavily biased reporting that doubles as marketing for a particular social agenda to be perverse and more truly Orwellian than all the mainstream news media sounding similar in their reporting of objective fact and information.
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Oh the irony, when propaganda is not Orwellian and truth is.

Newspeak anyone?
 
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