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To: LPS5 who wrote (12320)	10/15/2003 1:25:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793640

am relieved to see it properly classified as an editorial. Actually, it was an op-ed, not a Post editorial. This afternoon's chat might produce some additional info--both facts and opinion. there's a big problem in this country whereby people are continually confusing facts with opinions and vice versa.>> Yes, there most certainly is. In this particular column, which was about facts and factual errors, there were quite a few facts, at least for those who consider polling statistics to be facts, or quasi facts. <g>

To: LPS5 who wrote (12320)	10/15/2003 1:59:24 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793640

Hi LPS5, I wanted to see if it was being held out as reporting or commentary, and am relieved to see it properly classified as an editorial. Sorry, wrong. "Researchers from the Program on International Policy Attitudes (a joint project of several academic centers, some of them based at the University of Maryland) and Knowledge Networks, a California-based polling firm, have spent the better part of the year tracking the public's misperceptions of major news events and polling people to find out just where they go to get things so balled up. This month they released their findings, which go a long way toward explaining why there's so little common ground in American politics today: People are proceeding from radically different sets of facts, some so different that they're altogether fiction. " --fl@justthefax.com