A recent poll conducted by World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, finds that the viewers of Fox News are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. [Source: AlterNet]
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It seems that Fox News viewers suffer from the same malady as the subjects of a lament that has been attributed to Artemus Ward, Mark Twain and Will Rogers, “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” It seems that the author of this particular quote is one of the things "we know that ain't so." /grin/
A similar quote, "The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so" has been/is Widely attributed to Josh Billings. But, who the heck knows? These words DO get around. /grin/ /LL
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