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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (274630)	9/10/2010 10:58:56 AM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Just for grins I googled "news misinformed uninformed" The name Fox showed up in the headlines for 3 of the top ten articles, and was in the article text for several others. Add Fox to the search and you get 336,000 hits. I found this headline entertaining. O'Reilly (another Harvard graduate) would have done well in the Third Reich, or even communist Russia. What O'Reilly doesn't realize is that most young Americans are much smarter than he is. O'Reilly: Young Americans "have no idea what's going on" because they "get their news from Jon Stewart" May 25, 2006 10:18 am ET ... During the May 23 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly asserted that "[m]any Americans ages 18 to 24 have no idea what's going on," stating that they "get their news from [Comedy Central host] Jon Stewart and their point of view from bomb-throwing entertainers." In fact, studies have shown that viewers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are consistently better informed about current events than consumers of other media, and Daily Show viewers are considerably better educated than viewers of The O'Reilly Factor. Further, consumers of Fox News in general have been found to be significantly more misinformed about current events than consumers of other mainstream media. ...