The news is bad, but FOX is awful

It should be clear to anyone who thinks that FOX news a very clear ideological agenda.  Yes MSNBC has 3 progressives in prime time but studies show that their day to day news coverage is still very conservative. FOX is a different animal entirely.  Check the results of this poll done my MSNBC:

 

Here’s another way to look at the misinformation:

In our poll, 72% of self-identified FOX News viewers believe the health-care plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants, 79% of them say it will lead to a government takeover, 69% think that it will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and 75% believe that it will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing care for the elderly. But it would be incorrect to suggest that this is ONLY coming from conservative viewers who tune in to FOX. In fact, 41% of CNN/MSNBC viewers believe the misinformation about illegal immigrants, 39% believe the government takeover stuff, 40% believe the abortion misperception, and 30% believe the stuff about pulling the plug on grandma. What’s more, a good chunk of folks who get their news from broadcast TV (NBC, ABC, CBS) believe these things, too. This is about credible messengers using the media to get some of this misinformation out there, not as much about the filter itself. These numbers should worry Democratic operatives, as well as the news media that have been covering this story.

The 41% for CNN/MSNBC is still way to high, but 79%? What the fuck?  And remember FOX is the network whose viewers to this day by equally troubling percentages believe that Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11 and that we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq even though neither is true.  This is not a coincidence, a separate study by media matters showed that FOX favors anti reform commentators by a 6 to 1 margin.