We know there were relationships between Saddam and terrorists, not al
Qaeda, mind you, but we all knew Saddam gave 20k to the family of any
Palestinian bomber.
They have found things that would allow Iraq to create chemical weapons, and
they did find some chemical stuff at a terror camp in northern Iraq, some
ricen IIRC.
I don�t know where the idea that people in other countries agreed with the
war, but again, I would place the blame on the person, not the news outlet.
My point is, people hear bits and pieces of the story, and they finish the
rest in their head. Long before we went into Iraq Bush and the rest of the
government said there was no connection between Iraq and the Sept 11th
attacks, and there never seemed to be a connection between Iraq and al
Qaeda.
These guys almost all report the same stuff, some of them do manage to show
it in a different light than, however the news the report is almost always
the same. I can't speak for the commentators these different networks have,
but if we accept what these guys say as fact, then shame on us.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:54 PM
To: CF-Community
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
I knew there were some positive reasons why I listen to NPR news.
larry
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