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Fox News Viewers Believe the Darndest Things, Study Finds
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 17) -- Fair and balanced ... and factually incorrect? A newly released study out of the University of Maryland concludes that viewers of the Fox News Channel were "significantly more likely" to believe a host of factually incorrect information than viewers who watched other television news organizations. Fox is by no means the only media outlet guilty of spreading what the study considers misniformation, but the channel's viewers were found to believe incorrect views on matters of established fact in much higher percentages than those peple who got their news of the world ...
The Worst You Can Say About: John McCain
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyWe here at Political Machine have noticed quite a bit of disinformation circulating about the presidential candidates. In an effort to set the record straight, we're taking a look at some of the sticky, often ugly, misconceptions circulating about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain. In this post, I'll be looking at some of the dubious attacks leveled at Arizona Senator John McCain. For example, if you heard that John McCain fathered an African American child out of wedlock, you were misinformed. Furthermore, you were misinformed by disinformation put out eight years ago when McCain ...
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