| Fox News fans misinformed, study finds ^ |
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| Posted by wallcrawlr On 10/17/2003 3:50 PM CDT with 22 comments Pioneer Press ^ | Oct. 17, 2003 | BRIAN LAMBERT One of Jay Leno's best shticks is "Jaywalking," when he manages to find more or less average Americans who know, or at least appear to know, almost nothing about the world beyond Entertainment Weekly. Show them a picture of Abe Lincoln, and they're stumped. "Is he the guy from Smashmouth?" Ask them to name two countries that border the United States, and you get, "Covina? Azuza? I don't know." It's scary — these people could be called for jury duty or placed in middle management. But it gets scarier yet, apparently, when you start asking 3,334 randomly selected adult Americans... |
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| Fox News fans misinformed, study finds ^ |
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| Posted by jdege On 10/17/2003 10:03 AM CDT with 114 comments St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | Oct 17, 2003 | BRIAN LAMBERT Fox News fans misinformed, study finds BY BRIAN LAMBERT Pioneer Press One of Jay Leno's best shticks is "Jaywalking," when he manages to find more or less average Americans who know, or at least appear to know, almost nothing about the world beyond Entertainment Weekly. Show them a picture of Abe Lincoln, and they're stumped. "Is he the guy from Smashmouth?" Ask them to name two countries that border the United States, and you get, "Covina? Azuza? I don't know." It's scary - these people could be called for jury duty or placed in middle management. But it gets scarier... |
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| Study hits war views held by Fox fans (moronic study alert) ^ |
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| Posted by mhking On 10/08/2003 8:10 AM CDT with 86 comments Baltimore Sun ^ | 10.4.03 | David Folkenflik Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. "When evidence surfaces that a significant portion of the public has just got a hole in the picture ... this is a potential problem in the way democracy functions," says Clay Ramsay, research director for the Washington-based Program on International Policy Attitudes,... |
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Then what is the point of the article? Why does Fox have to admit a known fact? And why doesn't all the other folks in the media have to admit their biases? It is quite easy to establishes biases from every media source, including this article. Why doesn't the author admit his biases up front.......
This is not exactly a true reflection of Pres. Bush's comprehensive thoughts on the subject. He has elsewhere drawn a distinction between "evidence" and "intelligence."
There was significant "intelligence" that connected Iraq to terrorists, and to the terrorist groups that carried out 9/11.
This met the standard of Bush's post 9/11 statement regarding whom the U.S. would target: ANYONE who aided, abetted, harbored terrorists; particularly the al qaeda group proven to have been involved in 9/11.
This is different that direct line evidence that Iraq was part of the "planning process for 9/11," but the connections raise the specter of Iraqi complicity, and they might all along have had reasonable expectation of what was being planned.
Online magazine Salon.com recently ran an interview with Charles Reina, who worked for six years at Fox as a producer, copy editor and writer. He claims a daily memo posted on the Fox computer system often contained instructions on how to slant the day's news to make it as pro-Bush as possible.
Obligatory Salon Stock DEATHWATCH BUMP"
Nothing to see here...