Misinformed America: What we don't know could hurt us all (the misinformed support Bush) BARF ALERT

The Seattle Times ^ | 11/30/03 | Randy Henderson

[ppaul]

...the more misperceptions a person held, the greater was their likelihood to support the war or the president's choices.

Yeah.
Here at FR, we're all just a bunch of uninformed dufuses, eh?
This kind of stuff makes me gag.
I guess if you're "informed", you believe America is the bad guy.
That we deserved what happened on 9/11.
Why don't we just run up the white flags now?!!

[Peace will be here soon]

"Misinformed America :... We take pride in being a democracy."

[mewzilla]

Gee, wonder why the author of this swill neglected to the reader anything about the group that did the study? Talk about what we don't know...

For more on the Program on Internation Policy Attitudes, click here for their website. Interestingly enough, that website doesn't tell one jack about who they are, either. Go figure...

[OpusatFR]

I've found the left likes to make definitive statements based on nothing but some half-baked statements to bolster their arguments.

I can definitively state that according to my studies the leftwing agrees with the support Hillary Clinton gave to Saddam supporters during her interview with AlArabia and AlJazeera Friday.

See, it's easy.

[Wonder Warthog]

And who precisely is the "Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)". Who sponsors them?? What is THEIR agenda?? What "ax" are THEY grinding??

[ThinkDifferent]

For example, only 23 percent of the people who were accurately informed about Iraq supported a unilateral war

This genius appears to not be accurately informed of meaning of "unilateral".

But I do think this suggests that truth tends to get beat up in the free market.

As opposed to the good old days of Pravda, for example.

But there's what mainstream America wants our media to provide, and then there's what America needs in order for our democracy to survive.

"You people are too stupid to decide what to watch". Yeah, I'm feeling the respect for democracy there.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Interestingly enough, that website doesn't tell one jack about who they are, either. Go figure..."

PIPA's Foundation Sponsors

Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Tides Foundation
Ford Foundation
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Compton Foundation
Carnegie Corporation
Benton Foundation
Ben and Jerry's Foundation
Americans Talk Issues Foundation
Circle Foundation

Looks like the typical litany of leftist funding agencies to me.

[Arkinsaw]

And then there is the study that shows that 0% of liberals have any common sense whatsoever.

[scan58]

NPR/PBS had the best record with only 23 percent of their audiences having one or more wrong perceptions.

Whose to say what is the "wrong perception"? So he's saying only the liberals have the "right perceptions"?

[motherof 3]

I wonder if he even knows who the PIPA is. I am sure he could care less as long as they are pushing the results he wants to see.

[ppaul]

So he's saying only the liberals have the "right perceptions"?

He's not the only one saying it.
That is the swill coming from all corners of the elitist left: academia, the public schools, unions, the media, et al.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Here's some more info.

The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) is a joint program of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and the Center for the Study of Policy Attitudes. PIPA undertakes research on American attitudes in both the public and in the policymaking community toward a variety of international and foreign policy issues. It seeks to disseminate its findings to members of government, the press, and the public, as well as academia.

The Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, pursues policy-oriented scholarship on major issues facing the United States in the global arena. Using its research, forums, and publications, CISSM links the University and the policy community to improve communication between scholars and practitioners.

The Center for the Study of Policy Attitudes (CSPA) is an independent nonprofit organization of social science researchers devoted to increasing understanding of public and elite attitudes shaping contemporary public policy. Using innovative research methods, CSPA seeks not only to examine overt policy opinions or positions, but to reveal the underlying values, assumptions, and feelings that sustain such opinions.

PIPA Board of Advisors

I.M. Destler
Director
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland University of Maryland

Gloria Duffy
Visiting Scholar
Stanford University

Alexander George
Professor of International Relations
Stanford University

Alan Kay
Director
Americans Talk Issues Foundation

Catherine M. Kelleher
(on leave)

Daniel Yankelovich
Chairman, DYG Inc.
President
Public Agenda Foundation

[hellinahandcart]

Interestingly enough, that website doesn't tell one jack about who they are, either. Go figure...

Oh yes they do. All you really need to know is who gives them money. And the list is right on the About Us page:

PIPA's Foundation Sponsors

Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Tides Foundation
Ford Foundation
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Compton Foundation
Carnegie Corporation
Benton Foundation
Ben and Jerry's Foundation
Americans Talk Issues Foundation
Circle Foundation

We're talking enviros, peaceniks, appeasers, communists, and UN worshippers here.

[ppaul]

The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)...seeks to disseminate its findings to members of government, the press, and the public, as well as academia.

Unfortunately, the government, the press, and the gullible public swallows their propaganda hook, line, and sinker. And, taxpayers pay for it!

[hellinahandcart]

At the other end of the spectrum was Fox News, with 80 percent of its audience having at least one misperception. Tragically, the most common one was that Saddam Hussein was linked to al-Qaida and 9-11.

I can't wait until that one is proven. I'm going to laugh for a month.

[Dan from Michigan]

Tides Foundation

That's all I needed to know right there to prove that this story is nothing more than a pile of horse manure.

[JoJo Gunn]

You beat me to it. "Unilateral war" my cakes.

Elitist sewage through and through....

[scan58]

Yes, I see that every day. (Hopelessly addicted to freerepublic.com, I am.) ;-)
Even though I see it consistantly, it never ceases to amaze me. I expect it, but it is still amazing.

Personally, I think HE has the "wrong perception", but that's just the way I perceive it.

[mewzilla]

Well, as I've always said, by their donors ye shall know them. And the author of this diatribe neglected to mention any of this. For shame...

[Richard Kimball]

At the other end of the spectrum was Fox News, with 80 percent of its audience having at least one misperception. Tragically, the most common one was that Saddam Hussein was linked to al-Qaida and 9-11.

He WAS linked to Al Qaida, which had training camps in Iraq, and received funding from Hussein. It is not known whether or not there was a link to 9/11. Maybe the Seattle Times is the one that's mis-informed (or lying).