Media Matters for America is always keep an eye out for Media Nonsense. In this clip, O'Reilly seems to frame the fact that young people in general are uniformed as to global politics as a right vs. left issue. Now, he makes some good points in this one (surprisingly)! I have met young people who dont know where important places are on a world map, but there are somethings that should be addressed that are not - like maybe young people arent mis-informed by Jon Stewart (see the statistic in the paragraph below), but brainwashed by advertising and consumerism... hm?... or the sensationalist (and yes, right wing) news outlets like Fox or the Fake News about video games sold to us as real and even important. How stupid, to say that the media is the problem... but only the 'liberal' media. Even 'all the stupid kids' know that there is no such thing!!! By the way - even though we dont have statistics to back it up, most of the young people we work with at Youth Channelknow that O'Reilly is full of crap AND how to find Iraq on a map.
Summary: Bill O'Reilly asserted that "[m]any Americans ages 18 to 24 have no idea what's going on," stating that they "get their news from [Comedy Central host] Jon Stewart and their point of view from bomb-throwing entertainers." In fact, studies have shown that viewers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with John Stewart are consistently better informed about current events than consumers of other media, and Daily Show viewers are significantly better educated than viewers of The O'Reilly Factor. Further, consumers of Fox News in general have been found to be significantly more misinformed about current events than consumers of other mainstream media.
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