biased towards hype to garner profit.
The discussion is a question of whether Fox was truthful in it's reporting
or not. Not whether it was conservative or liberal. Changing the discussion
into left vs. right is just an ad hominem attack to dodge the question.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: Re:fair and balanced more on the Fox Survey
> 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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