I guess everytime the chant went up in the park that "FOX NEWS LIES!", there was a latent apprehension of a fact, people who watch Fox News have been statistically proven to know less than people who do not watch any news at all !
http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/
http://slatest.slate.com/posts...or_news_stories.html
So now that we have a nation running on debt instead of capital, we have a news company that instaed of informing people keeps them dumb.