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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004
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To: Mephisto who wrote (6575)11/16/2003 3:39:38 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 10965
 
Mephisto,

Do you think that making the News Hour so boring is part of a vast right wing conspiracy to make the American people ignorant of political facts and apathetic?

There's no doubt that Jim Lehrer is one of the most lame presenters on TV. And his staff are abysmal, with the exception of Paul Solomon who manages to make his business/economic beat interesting if not particularly informative about the most important issues of the day.

OTOH, here's a scary thought. Last month a survey was done on the misperceptions of the American public. The news is shocking and disappointing.

Frequency of Misperceptions of Americans on three items:

1) Evidence of al-Qaeda Links, 2) WMD Found,
3) World Public Opinion Favorable

Respondents with one or more misperceptions:

Fox         80%
CBS         71%
ABC         61%
NBC         55%
CNN         55%
Print Media 47%
PBS-NPR     23%


Source: pipa.org Page 15

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It is scary to think about how ill-informed Americans are. And how hard the Bush Administration and the corporate media whores work to keep it that way.
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