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Study Finds Fox News The Most Uncivil Network

Posted by Ellen -453.60pc on June 16, 2012 · Flag

A new study of civility in America found that Fox News is considered the least civil of all the news networks, the New York Times, USA Today and PBS. 

The study, conducted by Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate, in partnership with KRC Research, found that political incivility is the new normal. However, while Fox News got the highest marks for incivility (35%), the majority of respondents (53%) did not find it uncivil. Nor did it rank all that worse than MSNBC (31% found it uncivil vs. 49% who found it civil) or CNN (31% found it uncivil vs. 53% found it civil).

However, what's the most damning is the overall picture the study paints about the media as a whole:

The media receives low grades in the incivility wars. A considerable 62% called out the media as uncivil in this  year’s survey. While this is considerably lower than last year’s incivility rating of 74%, it ranks among the top five most uncivil aspects of American life. A contributing reason to that perception may be that the vast majority of Americans agree that the media is more interested in controversy than facts (82%). 

...Regardless, cable news outlets are considered more uncivil than their broadcast counterparts. 

 H/T Huffington Post.


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Grrt Will commented 2012-06-17 11:39:55 -0400 · Flag
@Rick Patel: I’m pretty sure at this point that you’re just a troll, because your comment here is so ludicrously stupid it’s damning to even consider it a legit opinion. I mean, Shep Smith is far from being uncivil on Fox News in comparison to the corporatist “I’m sorry but…” blowhard Eric Bolling or the tough-to-timid bully Bill O’Reilly.
Richard Santalone commented 2012-06-17 08:48:26 -0400 · Flag
@mj – the same one By any chance mj, have you ever seen the HBO documentary “Right America: Feeling Wronged”? This VERY CHILLING documentary that was directed by Alexandra Pelosi exposes how redneck-style racism in this country is still very much ALIVE AND KICKING. Case in point: there is a scene in this documentary when a crowd of rednecks is asked what network they trust for their news — they all IMMEDIATELY scream in unison, “FOX!”
Rick Patel commented 2012-06-17 06:34:52 -0400 · Flag
FOX needs to upgrade civility by getting rid of Juan Williams & Sheppie Smith.
mj - the same one commented 2012-06-17 03:20:52 -0400 · Flag
Study Finds Fox News The Most Uncivil Network

Wow. Shocker. Not.

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Aria Prescott commented 2012-06-17 02:31:00 -0400 · Flag
They needed a study to find out that Fox News and it’s viewers have no civility? We could have linked them to J$, Newsbusters, Bob and Ralph for free.

Tell ya what- I’ll give them a million dollars to come up with that humans can’t live without air. I’m sure there’s three or four people who still don’t know that. Bet they all watch Fox News, too.
Paul Gould commented 2012-06-17 00:39:26 -0400 · Flag
… and in other news, liquid water is still wet, fire will burn your finger and if you jump off a building, you will hit the ground very hard…

Isn’t this what some of us have been saying since that evil broadcast entity’s inception?
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