that Jim posted, what about the idea that people only read/watch news that
reinforces what they alreaby belive...especially the Fox viewers :)
Dana
Larry C. Lyons writes:
> Did you read the article? Look how many of the regular Fox listeners out
> 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.
> > ========================================================
> > Chaos, Panic and Disorder. My work here is done.
> >
> >----------
> >[
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