and out believed a set of completely inaccurate statements. Over 80%. Now
look at the number of NPR listeners, less than 25%. The researchers also
compared those who were self identified as voting for G. W. Shrub who
listened to PBS and Fox and also found that those listening to PBS were
less likely to believe the administration lies, by a substantial margin
"Now, this could just be pre-sorting by ideology: Conservatives watch
O'Reilly, liberals look at Lehrer, and everyone finds his belief system
confirmed. But the Knowledge Network nudniks took that into account, and
found that even among people of like mind, where they got their news still
shaped their sense of the real. Among respondents who said they would vote
for George W. Bush in next year's presidential race, for instance, more
than three-quarters of the Fox watchers thought we'd uncovered a working
relationship between Hussein and al Qaeda, while just half of those who
watch PBS believed this to be the case."
It seems to me that the Fox listeners are not only more ignorant but far
more gullible.
I prefer my news not to be from a media outlet that's a propaganda arm of
the current administration. Time and time again its been shown that those
media outlets that are explicitly identified with the right wing, such as
Fox or the Washington Times, regard the truth as merely optional.
larry
At 09:08 PM 10/16/2003, you wrote:
>Larry,
>
>If Fox is the stallion of the right, NPR is definetely the lapdog of the left.
>
>Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Larry C. Lyons
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:53 PM
> Subject: fair and balanced more on the Fox Survey
>
> More from the Post Op-Ed piece:
>
> In a series of polls from May through September, the researchers
> discovered that large minorities of Americans entertained some highly
> fanciful beliefs about the facts of the Iraqi war. Fully 48 percent
> of Americans believed that the United States had uncovered evidence
> demonstrating a close working relationship between Saddam Hussein and
> al Qaeda. Another 22 percent thought that we had found the weapons of
> mass destruction in Iraq. And 25 percent said that most people in
> other countries had backed the U.S. war against Saddam Hussein.
> Sixty percent of all respondents entertained at least one of these
> bits of dubious knowledge; 8 percent believed all three.
>
> The researchers then asked where the respondents most commonly went
> to get their news. The fair and balanced folks at Fox, the survey
> concludes, were "the news source whose viewers had the most
> misperceptions." Eighty percent of Fox viewers believed at least one
> of these un-facts; 45 percent believed all three. Over at CBS, 71
> percent of viewers fell for one of these mistakes, but just 15
> percent bought into the full trifecta. And in the daintier precincts
> of PBS viewers and NPR listeners, just 23 percent adhered to one of
> these misperceptions, while a scant 4 percent entertained all three.
>
>
><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27061-2003Oct14.html>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27061-2003Oct14.html
>
> I knew there were some positive reasons why I listen to NPR news.
>
> larry
> --
>
> Larry C. Lyons
>
> ========================================================
> Life is Complex. It has both real and imaginary parts.
> ========================================================
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