>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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