Current Events > Fox News viewers transformed after watching CNN for 30 days

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-cnn-partisan-media-study-b2050240.html

Seriously?

Its almost like Fox News is a propaganda machine no better than a tabloid rag and CNN, while bias in its own way, actually delivers the news with logic. Go figure!

i dont watch either but anyone who says CNN is just the opposite of Fox and just as bad is an idiot lol.

I wish I could be paid $15 an hour to read CNN :(

Cool experiment.

I don't know why people love to hate on CNN so much. They are "biased" towards not being xenophobic. They sensationalize things, but one expects a certain amount of sleaze from one's new media, otherwise you'd just be reading AP News and nothing else. CNN's pearl clutching at guns is weird, but at least their intentions are to reduce gun violence. Compare to FOX's coked-up carnival of the grotesque and arabesque that we don't even need to get into. Just asking questions.

Certainly CNNs superiority and amazing productions are the cause of this

CNN lied about the Covington smiling kid, so they're fake news!

It's like when Huey was watching BET

From 2018 midterms...

CNN: *covers election results, frequently emphasizes that "blue wave" is not going to happen, analyzes results per district and discusses previous election results for same districts*

Fox news: *election results are completely ignored aside from fast scrolling stuff on bottom of screen while 6 anchors are all yelling over each other about immigrants*

bOtH SiDeS aRe bAd

Fox is like an alternate reality

Isn't CNN viewership decreasing while Fox remains #1? Asking for a friend.

Wasn't there a study once that showed that Fox viewers were literally less informed than people who straight up didn't watch any news?

Now conservatives really gonna think CNN has brainwashing powers.

Tom Clark posted...

Wasn't there a study once that showed that Fox viewers were literally less informed than people who straight up didn't watch any news?

literally everyone who knows someone who watches FOX knows this anecdotally.

I watched Fox for a decade and a half, and their playbook is so predictable it's kind of comical once you know what to look for.

Democrat president:
Unemployment down: "But the labor force participation rate is terrible!"

Republican president:
Unemployment up: "This is because of bad decisions from the previous Democrat!"

GOP official scandal: "Yet the mainstream media won't talk about (speculative bullshit about Hillary or Hunter Biden)!"

Nov 1st: "Democrats are making it ILLEGAL to say Merry Christmas!"

Jan 6: "This is terrible and Trump is responsible"
Jan 7: "Here's the bad things he did. And now to Tucker. Tucker: It was all Antifa, and I have Roger Stone on here to prove it!"

BobEvansLegend posted...

Isn't CNN viewership decreasing while Fox remains #1? Asking for a friend.

I always figured its cause young libs cant afford cable but old republicans can

Propaganda works, as it turns out

CNN losing Chris Wallace wasa basically the last bastion of good journalism they had being thrown out the window.

When OAN and Newsmax exploded in popularity because they were willing to straight-up lie to Trump supporters for copium, FOX made the executive decision that they were willing to go a similar direction instead of losing viewers.

it's almost like perspective is a function of stimuli

I like the Fox News and Fox Nation commercials where they're like "the stories and viewpoints you need to hear"

Just that subtle Orwellian bullshit they accuse everyone else of for... supporting gay people or whatever?

Of 763 qualifying participants, we then randomised 40 per cent to treatment group. To change the slant of their media diet, we offered treatment group participants $15 per hour to watch 7 hours of CNN per week, during Sept. 2020, prioritising the hours at which participants indicated they typically watched Fox News, the study said.

The punchline is you'd have to pay people a livable wage to watch CNN.

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Certainly CNNs superiority and amazing productions are the cause of this

They should make cnn mandatory viewing for 2 hours a day.

Esrac posted...

Of 763 qualifying participants, we then randomised 40 per cent to treatment group. To change the slant of their media diet, we offered treatment group participants $15 per hour to watch 7 hours of CNN per week, during Sept. 2020, prioritising the hours at which participants indicated they typically watched Fox News, the study said.

The punchline is you'd have to pay people a livable wage to watch CNN.

My initial thought entering this topic was 'how in the hell could you ever talk Fox News addicts into switching to CNN?' But then I read that they were paid for it and went 'ah, that'll do it.'

Tom Clark posted...

Wasn't there a study once that showed that Fox viewers were literally less informed than people who straight up didn't watch any news?

Yes but CNN doesn't score much higher, https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5

Esrac posted...

Of 763 qualifying participants, we then randomised 40 per cent to treatment group. To change the slant of their media diet, we offered treatment group participants $15 per hour to watch 7 hours of CNN per week, during Sept. 2020, prioritising the hours at which participants indicated they typically watched Fox News, the study said.

The punchline is you'd have to pay people a livable wage to watch CNN.

duh, conservatives are notorious for sticking their heads in the dirt. If only it was as easy as asking politely.

That only proves how stupid they are. No matter what you tell them theyll believe it.

Robot2600 posted...

I wish I could be paid $15 an hour to read CNN :(

Yeah but the catch is you have to watch Fox News regularly to qualify.

VitalGetPrank posted...

Yes but CNN doesn't score much higher, https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5

As an outsider, your news terrifies me. And I come from the same country as the Daily Mail.

Tom Clark posted...

As an outsider, your news terrifies me.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/1/AAXm8_AADGcz.jpg
Ah ha ha!

Did they roll out?