OK. What % of those who watch ABC, NBC, CBS over the last year believe those? That may be the missing key.
Here's what the report says about that, mentioning CBS and PBS in specific:
The researchers then asked where the respondents most commonly went to get their news. [Fox viewers were] "the news source whose viewers had the most misperceptions." Eighty percent of Fox viewers believed at least one of these un-facts; 45 percent believed all three. Over at CBS, 71 percent of viewers fell for one of these mistakes, but just 15 percent bought into the full trifecta. And in the daintier precincts of PBS viewers and NPR listeners, just 23 percent adhered to one of these misperceptions, while a scant 4 percent entertained all three.
And the article went on to say that, controlling for liberal/conservative perception-bias, even among people of like mind, where they got their news still shaped their sense of the real. Among respondents who said they would vote for George W. Bush in next year's presidential race, for instance, more than three-quarters of the Fox watchers thought we'd uncovered a working relationship between Hussein and al Qaeda, while just half of those who watch PBS believed this to be the case.
I just reported the study (in the full expectation that it would be the source that would be attacked, of course.)
Has the Semour Hersh NYer piece, THE STOVEPIPE, been posted yet? It's an important piece.
I hope this isn't a repeat:
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