[wallcrawlr]

Media columnist Brian Lambert can be reached at blambert@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5424.

[SunStar]

Already Posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1002993/posts

[Jorge]

It appears to me the people who did the study are the ones who are misinformed.

Any answer that is not a Dem/lib talking point is obviously wrong in their simple minds.

[Sender]

Misinformed (adjective): A person or group of people, usually crude, uneducated, mindless knuckledraggers, who do not agree with the elite socialist worldview and refuse to get on board with progressive reforms.

[george wythe]

Notice the comparison between FoxNews viewers and NPR/PBS viewers, not FoxNews viewers and CNN viewers, not FoxNews viewers and ABC News viewers.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Apparently, the small segment of people who tend to view PBS Newshour are older, more educated, and more liberal.

Since the questions only deal with liberal push buttons, we expect the liberals to be more knowledgable about them.

What about asking questions about news items covered extensively in FoxNews and ignored by PBS/NPR?

[RonDog]

There are now TWO threads about this:

Fox News fans misinformed, study finds
			Posted by wallcrawlr On 10/17/2003 1:50 PM PDT with 5 comments Pioneer Press ^ | Oct. 17, 2003 | BRIAN LAMBERT
Fox News fans misinformed, study finds
			Posted by jdege On 10/17/2003 8:03 AM PDT with 97 comments St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | Oct 17, 2003 | BRIAN LAMBERT

[Maelstrom]

I'll admit it...this bugs me.

"Is it your impression that the U.S. has or has not found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al-Qaida terrorist organization?"

This was reported in the Guardian. Yes, Saddamn worked with Al Qaeda.


• "Since the war with Iraq ended, is it your impression that the U.S. has or has not found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?"

See the Kay report. Some people consider the finding of active botulinin sufficient to meet this test.

• "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?"

Outside Muslim fundamentalist theocracies, France and Germany, I believe the support is there. The Eastern bloc nations, Australia, and several other nations have helped with support and personnel.

Am I misinformed or is the study?

[Cicero]

The answers to all three of these questions are, in fact, probably the opposite of what this ignorant, bigoted fool thinks. Maybe we should focus on the misinformation sucked up by listeners to CNN and readers of the Pioneer Press.

[DaBearOne]

It just proves that the demo/liberal talking points are not accepted by normal thinking people who only respond to the TRUTH.

[Yo-Yo]

This entire survey is a thinly disguised liberal hit piece on conservatives.

Example:

Exposure to News and Frequency of Misperceptions among Bush and Democratic Nominee Supporters

Average frequency of misperception among:

Bush supporters who follow the news:
Not closely at all - 40%
Not very closely - 43%
Somewhat closely - 44%
Very closely - 54%

Democratic nominee supporters who follow the news:
Not closely at all - 22%
Not very closely - 20%
Somewhat closely - 16%
Very closely - 11%

It seems that a "misperception" of the news means not buying the liberal slant of the news.

[venora]

So, what were the correct answers?

Being a FOX newzer I'm obviously incapable of figuring it out for myself.

[pfflier]

Old stuff, new slamming headline (all conservatives are mentally ill AND uninformed).

[Bud Bundy]

Looking at their entire survey, their claim that the majority of people in the world are against the US is based on the fact that the US did not get a UN Security Council resolution to support the war. Yet, that was because France and Germany threatened to veto it.

These people are so stuffed full of their own left wing propaganda that they're absolutely nothing more than a propaganda organ themselves.

[MattAMiller]

It annoys me to no end that the media continues to treat the Iraq-Al Queada conection as obvious myth. It's a bit of a conspiracy theory but it is a belief a person could come to by studying the issue.

At worst it's in the same league as "The CIA killed Kennedy" or "Shakespeare wasn't the real author of all those plays and sonnets."

[dr_who_2]

"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?"

Yes, it's clearly my duty as a citizen to keep up with the latest skewed poll results on any important political question.

[xm177e2]

But for all the anecdotal information, opinions and accusations, here was a comprehensive survey with a thoroughly professional, scientific methodology. We don't get enough of that.

Of course, if you give the anti-war answer, you get the question "right" every time. Add to that the FACT that we know Saddam had ties to al-Qaida. And the FACT that he had ties to other terrorist groups. And the FACT that coalition forces have found a live strain of Botulism bacteria (used to produce botulinum toxin, the single deadliest toxin known to man) in a scientist's home. Etc. etc. etc.

[optimistically_conservative]

Eighty percent of the 3,334 respondents said their primary news source was television or radio networks. Of that figure, 18 percent cited Fox News as their primary news source. A mere 3 percent cited NPR or PBS. (Thirty percent cited two or more sources; CNN 16 percent, NBC 14 percent, ABC 11 percent, CBS 9 percent.)

Seems that's a slant in the survey considering the numbers of viewers is:

Fox News (3.4 million households per day)
CNN (2.7 million)
MSNBC (1.4 million)
NBC Nightly News (7.2 million)
ABC World News Tonight (6.9 million)
CBS Evening News (5.5 million.)