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Fox News fans misinformed, study finds
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^
| Oct 17, 2003
| BRIAN LAMBERT
Posted on 10/17/2003 8:03:21 AM PDT by jdege
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To: jdege
I dont think we are misinformed, just informed...
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posted on
10/17/2003 8:36:14 AM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Hillary and Clark rhymes with Ft Marcy park...)
To: Viva Le Dissention
I do sort of assume that people who get their news from Fox would tend to be misinformed. How can someone be "misinformed" about their own personal "impressions" and "feelings"?
If everybody doesn't feel the same way about things that you do, then they are, by definition, misinformed?
Your bias has blinded you.
To: jdege
On the question of a link between Saddam and al-Qaida, a frankly startling 67 percent of the Fox News primary-source crowd believed this to be true.
No kidding. FR probably would test out around 90 percent and would tell you the White House is lying when Bush says there is no link, either. Don't blame Fox. People believe what they want to believe.
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posted on
10/17/2003 8:37:13 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
To: jdege
Wow. FOX News really scares them, doesn't it? Talk radio, FR, and FOX News may yet save this nation.
44
posted on
10/17/2003 8:37:14 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Arnold cannot be compared to Clinton.......Clinton is a vicious biting perjuring rapist)
To: Tired_of_the_Lies
I read the WSJ.
No matter what, whenever someone reports something, there will be a warping of the true and actual facts; unfortunately, it's impossible to avoid, but different people see the same things differently, and even if someone makes an honest and true effort to report exactly what he saw, it may be different than what I saw. So in that sense, everything is in a sense, biased.
This said, however, I think the WSJ does the best job of attempting to limit any biases that appear in its pages.
To: Viva Le Dissention
While I'll be the first to admit these questions are pretty lame and at least to some degree subjective (like, what is "clear" evidence), the answers of Fox viewers does certainly raise some eyebrows. Why am I not surprised you take the French view once again?
46
posted on
10/17/2003 8:38:54 AM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(RED SOX WIN! We had 'em all the way)
To: jdege
The Nitwits just keep trying and trying to knock the conservatives out.
To: doug from upland
Talk radio, FR, and FOX News may yet save this nation.Not if Ed Asner has anything to say about it!! :-)
48
posted on
10/17/2003 8:39:50 AM PDT
by
JoeSixPack1
(POW/MIA Bring 'em Home, Or Send us Back!! Semper Fi)
To: jdege
"Since the war with Iraq ended, is it your impression that the U.S. has or has not found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?" The war ended in Iraq? Wow. The Yankees make it to the Series and the war is over in Iraq- too much good news for me to handle in a 24 hour period.
And they want to say someone is uninformed?
To: jdege
What really gets their panties in a bunch is not the "Fair and Balanced" reporting. But the "You Decide Part"
To: jdege
One of Jay Leno's best shticks is "Jaywalking," when he manages to find more or less average Americans.....Ask them to name two countries that border the United States, and you get, "Covina? Azuza?
This is a real shame. It also reminds me of when Sean Hannity has the "Man on the street" segment when Flipper asks people on a street corner or wherever to name the Vice President, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, etc.
Some people have no clue who is running the country's affairs in DC. People need to get informed about politicians before they vote.
51
posted on
10/17/2003 8:42:47 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Ban dumbocRATs forever!)
To: metalboy
But we in the US of A need to control our demonic rat population.
52
posted on
10/17/2003 8:42:50 AM PDT
by
oyez
To: Prodigal Son
And they want to say someone is uninformed?
Didn't Bush say the Iraqi war was over when he was on the carrier?
The War on Terror goes on, but the Iraqi war is over. Maybe you
are overinformed?
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posted on
10/17/2003 8:43:05 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
To: been_lurking
My bias hasn't blinded me: I've said multiple times that these questions have a degree of subjectivity, which obviously makes them poor questions. Especially poor questions, mind you, on which to base any sort of study, even one as unscientific as this.
However, it still has some anecdotal value, and the questions can be distilled to some degree of fact at their basic core. When someone hears the first question, for instance, they hear, "Has the US found WMD in Iraq?"
But anyhow, I agree that these are bad questions, but I also agree that people that watch Fox as a primary news source are basically misinformed; or, at least, are selective in their evalutation of which news they find credible.
To: Texas_Jarhead
They sort of did, by the way the announced the survey results.
67% of Fox viewers believe there is a Saddam/AQ link. So 33% are wrong, thats pretty good. But they make it sound bad.
There's ton's of evidence of a link between Saddam and AQ.
But not nearly as much to on Saddam and 9/11. This group apparently thinks thats the same issue.
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posted on
10/17/2003 8:44:32 AM PDT
by
revtown
To: jdege
"Thinking about how all the people in the world feel about the U.S. having gone to war with Iraq, do you think the majority of people favor the U.S. having gone to war?" So, now we're getting polls asking people whether they know the results of other polls.
To: gcruse
Didn't Bush say the Iraqi war was over when he was on the carrier? No, he said the major operations were over, not the war.
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posted on
10/17/2003 8:45:32 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(And they give you cash, which is just as good as money.)
To: JohnnyZ
I don't know, why are you?
I DO like French food, by the way.
To: jdege
It's a claim that was one of the centerpieces of the Bush administration war policy HUH? Where was I and how come I didn't get the memo.
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posted on
10/17/2003 8:45:45 AM PDT
by
Wheee The People
(Do not read past this line, under penalty of law.)
To: jdege
They wanted to know what my impression was not what I had heard.
"im·pres·sion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-prshn) n. 1.An effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience. 2.A vague notion, remembrance, or belief: I have the impression that we have met once before. 3.A mark produced on a surface by pressure. The act or process of impressing."
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