Recently, The University of Maryland released a study which found that Fox News Viewers were the most misinformed audience in America. This story spread like wildfire across all other news outlets, and almost all of the social networks. It ran through the Lefty Blogs like free beer at a frat party. It did so with very little intellectual curiosity. I heard it repeated back to me at least a dozen times. This may shock a lot of folks, but I don’t really watch all that much Fox. It is T.V., which I only use for Penguins Hockey and Steeler Football. What I will say is that I was not the only one skeptical. For instance, how can that be quantified? What scientific methodology would someone have to use? What parameters were established for your study to distinguish the criteria as to correct answers and incorrect answers? What if people used more than one source? How many times per day or for that matter per week did each respondent spend watching T.V.? The questions for something like this are endless. Well, as it turns out, The Maryland study is worthless. Watch Below, it is twenty minutes, but twenty minutes well spent.
This is not the first time we have seen a major University participate in a bogus study designed to sway public opinion to the left. Over the last two years we have seen several surveys of historians which ranked the Presidents from best to worst. What is truly amazing is that Barak Obama managed to score near the top of almost all of these rankings despite not only serving very little of a first, (and hopefully last,) term, but also having very little positive results to show from any of his policies. One of the things which does bother me is the complete lack of intellectual curiosity of anyone who fell for this nonsensical study. That something this jawdroppingly stupid would be taken at face value does not speak well for the entirety of the left’s ability to think critically. One wonders if it is inability, or just plain laziness.
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