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Eighty percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one misperception, compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers

They've smeared the President,

They've crucified Rush,

They. slandered Arnold

and now they slam Fox.

Meanwhile I'm still looking for that "vast right wing conspiracy"!

Eighty percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one misperception, compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers

They've smeared the President,

They've crucified Rush,

They. slandered Arnold

and now they slam Fox.

Meanwhile I'm still looking for that "vast right wing conspiracy"!

You know, the funny thing is, that the rest of the media is appoplectic about Fox News, but it's available in only a fraction of the homes in the USA. It's got a much smaller installed base than do the other "cable news" outlets, like CNN and MSNBC, and only a tiny fraction of the possible audience of the major networks.

But they're demonized for shifing the entire news delivery within the US to the hard right...

Yeah... And I've got a bridge to sell. People have just begun to wake up, and find alternate news sources, like the Internet. And they find that what they find on the Internet is closer to Fox News (i.e. "the mostly unbiased truth") than anything they had available before.

Mark

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

Salman Pak, U.S. troops did find the 707 the defectors claimed was always there.

22 percent thought troops found weapons of mass destruction

Enriched Uranium and a vial of Botulinum Toxin. It may not be as much as we were expecting but they DID find WMD. And the only news coverage the media gave on the Uranium was that the troops didn't secure it and poor Iraqi looters were exposed to it.

25 percent believed that world public opinion favored Washington's going to war with Iraq.

Maybe the people being polled were confused by the question. After they saw thousands of cheering Iraqi's as U.S. troops liberated them they probably couldn't care less what some socialist frenchman thought.

Whats is really revealing is how negatively people responded to the questions. If the question was phrased "U.S. troops found Significant evidence" or "significant amounts of WMD" it would be different. But 80 percent of the poeple did not know that a vial of WMD was found? Over half believe no evidence of Al Quada links were found? Cleary this is the fault of the media. Even FOXNEWS.

a whopping 86 percent said they supported war Maybe thats because those who support the war know the fine details on whats going on. Those who are against the war just go on what is being fed to the by the networks.

with Republicans substantially "more likely" to hold misperceptions

It looks republicans tend to know the fine details as well, and the democrats are fed by the networks.

This is a "dangerously stupid survey" to paraphrase Marvin ("Who me? Biased?) Kalb. Measuring accuracy or truth by the standard of international views is like measuring virtue by the standards in a house of prostitution. Yet that is the methodology in this "survey."

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Two Degrees of Separation and a Double Sawbuck," discussion thread on FR. IF YOU WANT A FREEPER IN CONGRESS, CLICK HERE.

And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News channel, in particular, the more likely it is that your perceptions about the war are wrong, adds the report by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).

To our leftist friends at PIPA: This statement is only true if it's your attitude that people exploding like ripe watermelons at the base of the World Trade Center is no big deal.

I mean, really - was the attack on Pearl Harbor that big a deal? Couldn't we have just kissed and made up with the Japanese Imperial Navy? It was only 2300 Americans in 1941, after all.

I guess it's PIPA's attitude that Al Qaeda shouldn't be bothered with fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, but should be able to set up shop in your local mall in downtown USA, where they can conveniently off Grandma, the grandkids & the family dog at their leisure.