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Kasz216 on 18 December 2010
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fastyxx said:
Kasz216 said:

Going over the study... a lot of the questions asked... aren't really "true or false" things.

Like "Did the stimulus legislation gain or lose jobs".

Furthermore, pretty much ALL of the questions are democratically biased... as in few are questions Liberals would get wrong vs Conservatives.

I also find in intersting that 44% of the country isn't sure Obama was born in the US according to their report as well.  That's much higher then I remember that number being, which brings up sampling issues.

 

Seems like a report specifically tailored to get the results it got.  Otherwise you'd put in a bunch of stuff Liberals are more likely to get wrong like "Did Sarah Palin say she could see Russia from her house."

This response and that of the Fox PR guy commenting is exactly what the study shows.  

FOX guy "Undergrads party there.  Therefore every professional study done there, no matter where those researchers/professors actually did THEIR studying, is inherently false and pointless."  No actual look at the information.  No judgement in any way that could have any merit or value.  But the FOX viewer (who of course would NEVER see this study in the first place because it obviously doesn't fit the narrative FOX presents) would accept that immediately and unquestioningly.  It's LIBERAL BIAS in the media!  It's the LAMESTREAM media!  It's the LIBERAL BIAS in higher education!  

 

No. It's factual information.  There's no debate about any of those questions.  None.  

 

And the WMD technicality is stupid.  We all know that those remnants are NOT what we were supposedly looking for.  

 

FOX "news" is the greatest propaganda machine ever created in this country, at least since WWII.  And most of the personalities on the network are indeed entertainers and opinion-based hosts, but they are presented as being fair and balanced and news.  And they are presenting blatantly false facts to support their opinions.  Other networks, like MSNBC also present opinion, but they don't have "news" labelled everywhere and someone like Rachel Maddow presents researchable facts to back her views.  The hosts may not always present every applicable fact if it doesn't match their storyline/opinion, but they aren't blatantly making crap up the way Hannity or Beck are on a nightly basis.


Just a question.  Have you ever looked at a study of newspeoples self declared political affiliations?

http://www.asne.org/kiosk/reports/97reports/journalists90s/journalists.html

to sum it up...

61% of Newspaper reporters are Liberal/democrats

15% are Conservative/Republicans....

and the Print Media is always considered the more conservative of the two.