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Study hits war views held by Fox fans (moronic study alert)
Baltimore Sun ^ | 10.4.03 | David Folkenflik

Posted on 10/08/2003 6:10:40 AM PDT by mhking

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, which studies foreign-policy issues.

Fox News officials did not return repeated requests yesterday for comment on the study.

Funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation, the study was conducted from June through September. It surveyed 3,334 Americans who receive their news from a single media source. Each was questioned about whether he held any of the following three beliefs, characterized by the center as "egregious misperceptions":

(Excerpt) Read more at sunspot.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: fordfoundation; foxnews; iraq; pipa; rockefeller; televisedwar
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To: mhking
"It proves that what we're doing is great journalism," says NPR spokeswoman Laura Gross. "We're telling the truth and we let our audience decide."

THANKS for another LAUGH for Today!

62 posted on 10/08/2003 7:56:40 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Free People are NOT Equal; EQUAL People are NOT FREE.)
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To: cardinal4
By the right or on the right?
63 posted on 10/08/2003 7:57:08 AM PDT by sauropod (I love the women's movement. Especially walking behind it.)
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To: slimer; Pippin; Balto_Boy; George Frm Br00klyn Park; Marylander
Here in Harm City, we refer to it as the Baltimore Eclipse.
64 posted on 10/08/2003 7:58:07 AM PDT by sauropod (I love the women's movement. Especially walking behind it.)
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To: mhking
"Study calls Fox viewers stupid and easily led"
65 posted on 10/08/2003 8:02:00 AM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals (Celebrate Globalism)
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To: sauropod; mewzilla
Good catch! ON the right! Starting, actually, with the "16 words in the SOTU" scandal, right on up through the traitorious Joe Wilson lie,(I believe Mewzilla has nailed it when she says Wilsons wife was the BBC's source) Rush, and finally the DNC engineered smear of Arnold by proxy through the equally traitorious LA Times..
66 posted on 10/08/2003 8:06:51 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Hillary and Clark rhymes with Ft Marcy park...)
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To: mhking
They must've reversed the categories.
67 posted on 10/08/2003 8:08:01 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: dirtboy
The survey asked if folks believed that Saddam was linked with al Qaeda, not that Saddam was tied to 9-11. Two very different animals.

Wrong.

From the article: "Saddam Hussein has been directly linked with the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks."

68 posted on 10/08/2003 8:24:20 AM PDT by GoGophers
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To: finnman69
Interesting group of negative posts you have regarding conservatives and positive regarding Democrats...

I have never posted anything positive about Democrats.

69 posted on 10/08/2003 8:25:03 AM PDT by GoGophers
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To: Criminal Number 18F
Iraq had WMDs

From the survey: "Weapons of mass destruction have already been found in Iraq."

70 posted on 10/08/2003 8:27:09 AM PDT by GoGophers
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To: GoGophers
I have never posted anything positive about Democrats.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988827/posts?page=89#89
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988827/posts?page=97#97
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988827/posts?page=99#99
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/990666/posts?page=48#48

71 posted on 10/08/2003 8:33:54 AM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: finnman69
Liberal Foundation pays for a Liberal survey conducted by a liberal university....now there is real realiable information.....
72 posted on 10/08/2003 8:47:35 AM PDT by Gopher Broke (Abortion: Big people killing little people)
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To: GoGophers
From the article: "Saddam Hussein has been directly linked with the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks."

I read the original survey when it came out - the article misrepresents the question about Saddam and al Qaeda.

You really should do more than just read the article and accept what is being spoon-fed to you. After awhile, you end up reading the papers to see how they are spinning the news, not to get the news.

73 posted on 10/08/2003 8:49:37 AM PDT by dirtboy (Cure Arnold of groping - throw him into a dark closet with Janet Reno and shut the door.)
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To: dirtboy
I read the original survey when it came out - the article misrepresents the question about Saddam and al Qaeda.

I would like to read the question. Do you have a link or source?

74 posted on 10/08/2003 8:53:06 AM PDT by GoGophers
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To: GoGophers
Here's an article about this survey from yesterday:

Based on several nationwide surveys it conducted with California-based Knowledge Networks since June, as well as the results of other polls, PIPA found that 48 percent of the public believe US troops found evidence of close pre-war links between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist group; 22 percent thought troops found weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq; and 25 percent believed that world public opinion favored Washington's going to war with Iraq. All three are misperceptions.

Funny, I don't see 9-11 in there anywhere. But, then again, you're probably one of those people who believe that Bush claimed the threat from Saddam was imminent (a lie misconception that Bob Edwards of NPR has repeated on-air). So much for NPR's reputation as promulgated by this push poll masquerading as a neutral survey.

75 posted on 10/08/2003 8:53:52 AM PDT by dirtboy (Cure Arnold of groping - throw him into a dark closet with Janet Reno and shut the door.)
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To: finnman69
Arguing that the entire Democratic Party is not guilty of treason is hardly a defense of the Democratic Party.
76 posted on 10/08/2003 8:53:54 AM PDT by GoGophers
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To: mhking
Each was questioned about whether he held any of the following three beliefs, characterized by the center as "egregious misperceptions":

By whom??

Terry, Nancy, or Hillary?

Becki

77 posted on 10/08/2003 9:50:13 AM PDT by Becki (Pray continually for our leaders and our troops!)
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To: syriacus
When will they survey for these egregious misconceptions?

They don't have to. They already know everything they need to know, and are quite comfortable with their perception of the world and all it's wonders:

The PIPA study suggests a strong link between people's understanding of the news and its source. That link held true throughout different demographic segments, such as those based on education level, viewing habits, and partisan leanings, Ramsay said.

"It proves that what we're doing is great journalism," says NPR spokeswoman Laura Gross. "We're telling the truth and we let our audience decide."

If they get any more facts, it might confuse them.
78 posted on 10/08/2003 9:58:35 AM PDT by reformed_democrat
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To: mhking
... In contrast, 80 percent of Fox News viewers held at least one of the three incorrect beliefs...

Cut and pasted from the article, was this an inadvertent or intentional choice of words?

In any case, it's a naked revelation of the liberal mindset and what they intend for us.

79 posted on 10/08/2003 10:27:59 AM PDT by tsomer
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To: reformed_democrat
They already know everything they need to know, and are quite comfortable with their perception of the world and all it's wonders:

Thank you for the reminder. :-)

80 posted on 10/08/2003 10:58:48 AM PDT by syriacus (Prankin' Al Franken said---My letter to Ashcroft was not a lie...it was a prank. 9/7/03 to H Kurtz)
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