I vote for whoever Laurie tells me to.
Posted on 05/04/2006 7:31:49 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A study by two economists found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly increased the GOP’s share of the vote in the 2000 Presidential election and delivered Florida to George Bush.
"Our estimates imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 8 percent of its audience to shift its voting behavior towards the Republican Party, a sizable media persuasion effect," said Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California at Berkeley and Ethan Kaplan of Stockholm University.
In Florida, they estimate that the Fox effect may have produced more than 10,000 additional votes for Bush, the Washington Post reports.
That would clearly be a decisive factor in a state he carried by fewer than 600 votes.
Fox cable news debuted in 1996 and by 2000 was available to about 20 percent of Americans. That allowed DellaVigna and Kaplan to compare changes in the Republican vote share from 1996 to 2000 in 9,256 cities and towns where Fox News aired.
Good. One more reason for libs to hate FOX.
STUDY: The New York Times Is A DNC Mouthpiece.
It is amazing what the truth does to liberals when they are exposed. Liberalism can not compete in the market place of ideas.
So did they do a study to determine if CNN, the New York Times etc won the election for Clinton?
Good. May they enjoy ever increasing viewers! ;)
Just think if the msm was even on reporting. There would not be a dimocrat party as it is today.
I vote for whoever Laurie tells me to.
They just can't get their story straight. First it was Jeb Bush's illegal meddling, then the "conservative" SCOTUS, then Rush Limbaugh. ....and now FOX News.
...and here I thought it was all the fault of the Supreme Court...
So how many elections did 50 years of complete Democratic dominance of the mainstream media win?
Good for the Fox network, they were able to do what CNN and the others did to get Clinton elected. Remember how easily George Stephanopolis was able to get through the Larry King show to start drilling Bush with questions. And Larry swore he got through like any other caller. Yea, my butt.
According to the moonbat style book it's spelled "Faux News".
I think that Free Republic, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest of the new media deserve at least as much credit as Fox News for giving the American public the truth for the first time.
Have they ever considered that Fox simply appealed to a growing number of people who are conservative in nature?
I agree!!! have not seen her for a time. any idea what she is doing now?
My money is on the Swift Boat Veterans , If it hadnt been for them we would have a traitor at the helm right now.
Bull! It was FR!
I knew I liked FoxNews for some reason!
So does this mean if CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS were fair and balanced Bush would have won by a landslide?
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