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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.
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Yes, I was thinking the same thing when I saw that stat. I'm guessing the trend holds for other comparisons(Fox vs. print media for example), but that this one was just the most obvious.
They say: "while Bush supporters are more likely than supporters of a Democratic nominee to have misperceptions, for both groups, respondents' choices of news sources make a significant difference in how prevalent misperceptions are."
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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.
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Yes, I agree with this and would have liked to have seen this report do a comparison of those who get their news from one source versus those who get it from multiple sources. I suspect the level of misconception would go down for the multiple source group (unless their sources were Fox and the NY Post or something like that). Unfortunately, according to this poll, only 30% of the polling group said they got their news from multiple sources.