Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid

Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.

So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false. This study corroborates a previous PIPA study that focused on the Iraq war with similar results. And there was an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that demonstrated the break with reality on the part of Fox viewers with regard to health care.

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Distribution of Racial and Ethnic Groups

The New York Times has a nifty interactive map that takes Census data and tells you the racial and ethnic distribution anywhere in America.

Here’s the Metroplex and my neck of the woods.

Give it a try here.

And for the heck of it, I had to check out the city of White Settlement.  I really don’t know a whole lot about that area, other than we played a few schools in that region when I was in high school, but I alway felt the name of the city sent a strong message,  as if it was named that for a reason way back when.

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‘Yule Log’ to air in 3D

This year’s edition of “Yule Log,” the U.S. television special featuring a roaring fire and Christmas carols, will air in 3D, its producers said Wednesday.

The free festive program is to be offered on Comcast, Cox Communications, Cablevision, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks Systems.

“Everyone loves the televised ‘Yule Log,’ a longtime holiday tradition that brings a special glow to many homes,” a news release announcing the program said. “Cable raised the bar a few years ago with the first high-definition crackling fire. Now this year for the first time, many systems are also showing the ‘Yule Log’ in 3D, in addition to high definition and standard definition.”

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I was pretty surprised at just how long this has been going on:  While the original televised “Yule Log” has been airing on broadcast TV since 1966, iN DEMAND said its version for cable viewers was produced in hi-def starting in 2002.

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