In fact, there is almost no difference between daily Fox watchers and daily NPR/PBS watchers on this question (91 to 87%). So the New York Times and the usual suspects are trumpeting the fact that daily Fox viewers were 4% more misinformed than NPR/PBS viewers and 1% more misinformed than daily Network News viewers. Is this really worth mentioning?
There is really only one outlier in this chart and that’s the people who watch MSNBC daily. Only 2/3 of them agreed with this statement, but that is still 20-25% less than any other outlet. Clearly there was one network that was heavily invested in “jobs created or saved.” There are many people who believe a “saved” job is something of a mythical creature, there being no way to know what would have happened without the stimulus. But that aside, Fox was no different than all the other outlets, save the one aligned most closely with the administration pushing this idea.
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