Will Fox News report this?

From a Baltimore Sun story:

Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs.

I guess this shouldn’t really be a surprise, but it’s interesting to see it documented. I’d seen earlier reports about the astonishingly high percentage of our population who held untrue beliefs about the Iraq war, but this was the first time I’d seen it broken down by the source of news. (I don’t suppose they surveyed any of the readers of this blog to see how well-informed they are).

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