{"id":182850,"date":"2015-05-22T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/22\/quote-of-the-day-fox-news-makes-you-stupid-edition\/"},"modified":"2015-05-22T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T03:04:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-fox-news-makes-you-stupid-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/22\/quote-of-the-day-fox-news-makes-you-stupid-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day, Fox News Makes You Stupid Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThere is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these [factual] questions than those who don\u2019t watch any news at all.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2015\/05\/its-the-stuff-you-know-that-aint-so-friday-open-thread.html\">Obsidian Wings<\/a>, which linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2604679\">former Reagan administration official Bruce Bartlett<\/a>, who in turn linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/publicmind.fdu.edu\/2011\/knowless\/final.pdf\"> Fairleigh Dickinson University\u2019s PublicMind Poll<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these [factual] questions than those who don\u2019t watch any news at all.\u201d \u2014Obsidian Wings, which linked to former Reagan administration official Bruce Bartlett, who in turn linked to Fairleigh Dickinson University\u2019s PublicMind Poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1091,992,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-polls","category-statistics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}