According to a new study – you’re better off watching no news than GOP TV's Fox so-called News. Farleigh Dickinson University surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in the Middle East – and it turns out people who get their news from Fox are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government compared to people who watch absolutely no news at all.

Similar results were seen when Fox viewers were asked questions about the Syrian uprising too. I guess all the chatter about the Muslim Brotherhood over at GOP TV distracted viewers from the actual news taking place.

So isn’t it about time to strip the word “news” from Fox – and just call the network what it really is – what Roger Ailes envisioned when he first proposed it to Richard Nixon in the 1970’s – GOP TV?

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Quote: "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." -- John F. Kennedy.

Hour One: Occupy the Highway Marchers arrive in DC
- Panama, OWS participant, marched from NY to join with Occupy DC

Article: "Lobbying firm's memo spells out plan to undermine Occupy Wall Street" by Jonathan Larsen and Ken Olshansky.

Article: "'Occupy the highway' group to arrive in DC" by Keith Laing.

Article: "U.S. Firms Keen to Add Foreign Jobs" by David Wessel.

Video: "Giant Sucking Sound - Ross Perot 1992 Presidential Debate".

Article: "Border-Town Factories Give Manufacturers An Edge" by Jason Beaubien.

Article: "'Time to get back to work': Obama chides Republicans for Super Committee's failure to reach debt deal as he vows to veto any attempt to derail automatic spending cuts".

Article: "Pregnant Woman Blasted with Pepper Spray by SPD Says She Miscarried" by Dominic Holden.

Article: "Fox News viewers less informed about current events than those who don’t watch news at all, study finds" by Meena Hartenstein.

Article: "First Mitt Romney ad takes direct aim at Obama" by Martha T. Moore.

Article: "Obama Campaign Blasts Romney's First TV Ad As 'Deceitful'" by Jon Ward.

Article: "New ThinkProgress ‘Ad’: Romney Says ‘Let Us Just Raise Your Taxes Some More’*" by Judd Legum and Jeff Spross.

Article: "Obama Promotes Jobs Plan in Home of First Primary Contest" by Hans Nichols and Julie Hirschfeld Davis.

Article: "Fox News Host Dismisses Pepper Spray Attack By Cops: ‘It’s A Food Product, Essentially’" by Marie Diamond.

Article: "Remarks by the President on the American Jobs Act" by President Obama, New Hampshire, November 22, 2011.

Hour Two: Why JFK's murder still matters, plus some exciting news
- Lamar Waldron, Thom's co-author on "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination"

Book: "Legacy of Secrecy" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Liz Smith: Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher — They Are Not Amused!" by Liz Smith.

Talk Radio News Segment: Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Article: "About Pepper Spray" by Deborah Blum.

Article: "Bank profits up, but bank health is not" by Nathaniel Popper.

Article: "White House Press Gaggle by Jay Carney Aboard Air Force One, November 22, 2011".

Article: "Conservatives Applaud Debt Panel Republicans For Opposing Tax Hikes" by Mike Hothi.

Article: "White House Standing Firm Against Sequester Repeal" by TRNS.

Article: "Lawmakers Move To Prevent Automatic Defense Cuts" by Adrianna McGinley.

Article: "Reid Supports Administration's Lawsuit Against Alabama" by Adrianna McGinley.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Book: "Resistance Against Empire" by Derrick Jensen.

Book: "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

Site: Hunter School.

Article: "It's the Inequality, Stupid" by Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot.

Site: "Occupy Charlottesville".

Documentary: "Freedom Riders" - PBS.

The good: Kuala Lumpur: "George W. Bush, Tony Blair found guilty of war crimes … in Malaysia" by AFP.

The bad: "Florida school official calls police on kissing 12-year-olds" by Stephen C. Webster.

The very, very ugly: Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly: "Fox News Host Dismisses Pepper Spray Attack By Cops: ‘It’s A Food Product, Essentially’" by Marie Diamond.

Site: "Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund".

Twilight Zone alert: "'It's like an octopus groping me': Grandmother, 73, claims she's being plagued by a GHOST" by Sara Nelson.

Latest on Occupy Seattle
- Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle

Article: "84-year-old leads Occupy Seattle group to protest at police headquarters" by Brian M. Rosenthal.

Article: "Justice Department investigates use of force by Seattle police" by Ashley Powers, April 01, 2011.

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).

Article: "Survey: Americans Will Pull $185 Billion Out of Big Banks Next Year" by Martha C. White.

Article: "Pew: Religious Lobbies Balloon" by Henry J. Reske.

Hour One: It's a special edition of "Brunch With Bernie"... America's Senator... Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...

Hour Two: Latest on the 1% campaign
- Robert Greenwald, Filmmaker, political activist and founder of Brave New Films

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