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Morons. You can't really say much more than that.


I think it's reasonable to add that their coverage is universally bad. If you knew a lot a about say Medicine or Law you would find their coverage just as bad on those topics. Worse yet most news organizations are just as bad if not worse.


It's a bit scary to watch a news report or documentary on a subject you know well. One of my favorite clips is the "Computator" from How It's Made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnQJxCXbFA

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JOPCP8


Fox News is definitely one of the worst. There was a recent survey saying that watching Fox News makes you less informed, than if you didn't watch any news at all. Hard to believe that watching news would make you less informed, but in this case it's most likely true. In that survey Fox News also scored the lowest (worst).


I wonder if the study found that was true for all TV news. Honestly, people who get their news from any TV shows at all at this point in history aren't really all that informed in general.




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