No News Better for You Than Fox News, Survey Finds

Poll of the Day: Fox News viewers might not know a lick about the Arab spring, but gosh darn it, they DO know that Obama is the antichrist.

A new poll has found that people who use Fox News as their main source of information were less likely to know about key events of the Arab Spring than people who didn't watch any news channels or read newspapers. The poll, taken by researchers at Fairleigh Dickinson University, asked 612 New Jersey residents where they got their news, then asked them if they knew whether Hosni Mubarak had been deposed in the Egyptian uprising, and whether the Syrian uprising had succeeded yet. On the Egypt question, Fox News watchers were 18 percentage points less likely to answer correctly than their news-averse counterparts. Likewise, on the Syrian question, they were six points less likely to know that President Bashar al-Assad was still kicking it in Damascus. Granted, the survey was taken in New Jersey, so the answers could be skewed downward a little because they were given in a state often considered to be the armpit of America. But the same study found that those who watched Sunday morning current affairs programs were the most likely to give the correct answers, followed by those who read national newspapers such as the New York Times.