many times has Fox had to make a retraction? Now lets compare that to NPR.
How many out and out left wing rants have there been in a two hour segment
of All Things Considered in the last 2 months? Now lets compare that number
to the blatant right wing rants on Fox.
Now with those comparisons which network is biased?
At 10:18 AM 10/17/2003, you wrote:
>Larry,
>
>Just one point of clarification. Do you feel that NPR presents a totally
>unbiased position and doesn't have any liberal bias at all? Simple yes or no.
>
>Kevin
>
> >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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