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.
Of course there is no bias or sour grapes coming from that place.
A more apt headline would be "MSM failed to deliver election for Gore"
That goes without saying...liberalism is entirely disarmed when it comes to the marketplace of ideas.
Yea right, and the MSM won the election for Kerry. LOL
Okay, for decades, how much influence have all the other stations and major newspapers had in helping the RATS?
I am just amazed, 6 years later liberals are still outraged at the election they lost.
Apparently so.
I know - can't they give it a rest yet!!
20 years from now, the libs will have totally forgetten 9/11 happened, but they'll still be b*#&^ing and whining about the 2000 elections!
I wonder how many people all the other news outlets have convinced to vote democrat over the decades.
If ALL the news outlets just reported the facts and left their efforts to shape opinion out of it, this country would be in much better shape. The politicians in both parties would be held accountable and we wouldn't have the Ted Kennedies and the Dick Durbins and the Bill and Hillary Clintons in positions of power.
What a hottie, damn!!!
In other words, Bush voters are so dumb, we need a TV channel to tell us who to vote for.
Thanks Fox, I couldn't have done it without you.
More importantly, I could not have gotten through the 2000 election fiasco without Free Republic. You guys gave me the strength. Thanks.
Truth affected the vote, to the dismay of liberals.
Seems like mot libs have forgotten already........
I'm sure the premature call of the state for Gore, suppressing the vote in the panhandle cost GW far more votes than that.
I used spelcheq
What's the frequency Kenneth?
Is the converse also true? Did CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN help win the 1992 and 1996 elections for Clinton? Or is this where the double-standard kicks in?
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