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Originally posted by maximusveritas
while the rate for Republicans who watch PBS/NPR is 32%. Also, 48% of Democratic supporters who watched FoxNews had the misconception that the US has found evidence of a direct Saddam-Al Qaeda link. But not a single Democrat who got their news from PBS/NPR had this misconception..
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I can't argue with your opinion of Fox, but these percentages are kind of misleading. If only 10% of the people listening to NPR were Republicans, the fact that 32% of them were misinformed doesn't amount to much.
How much of the listener-base of NPR is Republican? I don't know the answer to this, but I'm sure it's not nearly as large as its Democratic base. NPR is, in my opinion, a wonderful news source and service to this country. But I'm afraid that most Republicans would find it to have a decidedly Liberal slant.
The same goes for Fox News. Because Fox News is owned by a right wing lobbyist Rupert Murdoch and has a clear conservative agenda, nearly anyone with liberal or democratic ideals find it appalling to watch.
I think the problem here is that because Fox News is a de facto supporter of the Bush administration (because of its partisan orientation), it's going to look bad when it comes out that Bush's platform is riddled with lies and deception.
The same effect would occur, however, if a liberal-based media played lapdog to a Democratic president who then was exposed for fraud later on. In fact, I believe Anne Coulter and the rest of the lunatic fringe have a lot to say on this matter.
So I don't know that it's fair to blame Fox News for misinforming the public. I think it's important to realize that in reality, they are owned by Republican interests. So if you get information from them, it is going to have the same spin that's coming from the White House. It's up to the viewer to make a decision about the veracity of their news items.
I believe that
anyone who gets their news from one source is asking to be misled. I do not make up my mind about any article I read until I read it in several places. Sometimes the omissions of one source tells a whole story in itself.