From our friends over at Homebrewed Theology (who should have been added to the roll a while back but just haven’t been yet. Oh wait I remember now, they don’t have a blogroll…) – this delightful note
A story in yesterday’s Washington Post details the results of a poll that shows not only are Fox viewers the most divorced from reality, they are more likely to be rabidlyIslamophobic. For example:
- 76% of Fox viewers think Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is justified in holding congressional hearings on Muslim extremism in America.
- 59% of Fox viewers think American muslims haven’t done enough to oppose extremism in their communities.
- Only 16% of Fox viewers think Muslim Americans have been unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
- 35% of Fox viewers think American Muslims want to replace the Constitution with Shari’a law.
The punchline to this is that 53% of Fox viewers believe they are “well informed” about Islam.
The poll results get even scarier when you separate the demographic to white evangelicals who watch/most trust Fox. In that demographic:
- 84% believe the hearings are a good thing.
- 34% believe American Muslims want to impose Shari’a law.
- 62% believe American Muslims haven’t done enough to combat extremism in America.
- 70% of evangelicals who watch Fox believe they are well informed about Islam, a number that rises to 84% when compared to evangelicals who get their news from other/multiple sources.
One is a flyer, two is a trend, three or more is a defining characteristic. Multiple polls have shown that Fox viewers are, quite frankly, wrong more often about most everything than any other demographic in the US which begs the question….
…..what does Fox gain by keeping its viewership ignorant, and what is their intention in doing so?
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“what does Fox gain by keeping its viewership ignorant”
Votes for their Republican masters.