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?
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.
So, I take it all was well when election outcomes were controlled by the big three networks.
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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Don't forget that the liberals still claim that it was the fault of all the idiots that voted for him.
That constant claim by the liberals still sticks in my mind. Have every intention of making them pay for that one. Will contribute much more time to campaigning for Republicans this year than ever. Payback time for their insults.
You forgot a few.
- The dogs, fire hoses and cop cars at black voting precincts
- The Republican fascists in Miami keeping the canvassing board from taking ballots into a locked room so the votes could be counted "fairly."
- Jeb's lover Katherine Harris making sure black votes were discarded
- All those military people who moved to Florida so they could be tax cheats and cast illegal absentee ballots
- The Republicans' devious plan to make sure Gore voters cast their ballots for Pat Buchanan by getting the democrat election supervisor in Palm Beach County to design the butterfly ballot
- The Republicans' splitting of the liberal vote by forcing Ralph Nader to run.
There's many, many more that I just can't recall right now - makes my hemmorhoids throb just thinking about it.
Yeah! They would have signed Campaign Finance Reform, spoke out to ban "assault rifles", loved the Communist Chinese, and practically invited illegal aliens into the country while calling people trying to stop them peacefully vigilantes.
Hate to tell them this...but the VOTERS won the election for Bush. FOX was just slightly more balanced than the other networks.
You are so right!
So how under God's yellow sun does that approach "3 to 8 percent" shift in the vote? Ten thousand votes is less than two tenths of one percent of the total 2000 vote in Florida.
Might Fox News have made the difference? Maybe. So might have Rush Limbaugh. So might have Free Republic. But so what? The Miami Herald and the Tampa Tribune and ABCCBSNBCCNNPBSNewYorkTimesWaPostTimeNewsweek was working the other side of the fence.
Did a paper in Ohio tip that state, and the election, to Carter in 1976? He won Ohio by ~11,000 votes out of over 4 million cast; had Ford carried Ohio, he'd have won. Did a paper in California tip that state to Woodrow Wilson in 1916? He won California by ~4,000 votes out of a total of nearly a million cast; had Charles Hughes carried California, he'd have won.
Our estimates imply that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Wasington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Rocky Mountain News, the Miami Herald, the Atlanta Constitution, Time, Newsweek, and Air America convinced 99.9998 percent of its audience to shift its voting behavior towards the Democratic Party, a sizable but dwindling media persuasion effect that is apparently of no concern to this writer.
Correction: All those media, NOT counting Air America, convinced 99.9998 percent to vote Dem. If you add in Air America, the total is more like 99.99980001 percent. Sorry about the mistake.
Further correction: the 0.00000001 percent difference from Air America represents its TOTAL audience, not just those persuaded to vote Dem. The total contribution of Air America to the Dem vote effort is more in the neighborhood of ... one wino and a purple-haired lesbian rat juggler from Queens.
One final correction: the wino WAS a purple-haired lesbian rat juggler from Queens.
Give me Megyn Kendall or give me death.
She is so sharp and incisive. Not one second of wasted air time with her.
Superb. I wish her continued success!
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