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To: Alighieri who wrote (176737)	10/16/2003 7:55:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573816

The researchers then asked where the respondents most commonly went to get their news. The fair and balanced folks at Fox, the survey concludes, 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. No surprise at all. And what's even less of a surprise is that there is no response from Mr. Ray. Its probably Fox News that told him the SC makes the laws. <g> ted

To: Alighieri who wrote (176737)	10/20/2003 6:55:04 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573816

Yes I imagine that FOX watchers would be more likely to have inaccurate opinions on whether WMD where found in Iraq. I also expect watchers of more liberal news programs to have inaccurate opinions about questions like "Is the water quality in the US better or worse then it was in 1970?" If you could establish that FOX news watchers where much more likely to get all sorts of questions wrong you might have something but neither you nor the Program on International Policy Attitudes has established any such thing. Tim