Fox News Correlates with Anti-Islamic Views
Posted on 18. Sep, 2011 by Matt
in America, fox news, Religion Poll, Religious Views
As promised, here is an article about a recent study on American religious views released recently. The study was published by the Brookings Institute and the Public Religion Research Institution. You can find a PDF of the official study here.
In the study anti-Muslim views correlate most highly with viewers who trust Fox News most as a news source. No surprise there - of course now the question is whether Fox News causes the sentiment or if these people just flock to Fox because it reinforces their beliefs. Most likely it's a mix of both, but it would be difficult to do a study to show one way or the other.
Here is an image of one of the figures that we talked about in episode 36 of the podcast:
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