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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (232999)	5/16/2005 11:22:10 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574326

"You choose to interpret the information that twice as many people report liberal bias as conservative bias." I don't chose to interpret anything. I am just dealing with the facts here. The facts are that 70% of the public detects no bias at all. I doubt if you could get 70% of the public to agree that any source of information is unbiased. Now you are trying to spin it in a very weird way. Your methodology is flawed. You can't take a poll that is structured "choose one: A, B or C" and say "ok, the majority says C, but because there were some responses that say A and some that say B, and there are more A than B, then the results are really A". Like I said, you don't really understand these numbers, do you?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (232999)	5/16/2005 4:53:04 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574326

So you are saying that twice as many people, despite being subject to the bias are able to detect it. You choose to interpret the information that twice as many people report liberal bias as conservative bias. Based on simple math, this would imply that the media are 16.67% to the left of the middle. Your best evidence proves the bias. No one said that the 20% liberal and the 10% conservative were right. Because they perceive a bias does not make them correct. Look at you......you fervently believe that Fox News is mainstream. You base that perception on Fox's ability to reaffirm your own beliefs and value system, and it reflects how your neighbors and friends think and believe. Whereas for me, very few in my area endorse the beliefs/values of a Fox News. So who is right.......you or me? In the end, I would prefer to stick with the 70% who say PBS is fair and balanced. They are probably the most unbiased politically, and therefore are probably the ones who are best able to determine the truth.