Studies have consistently shown Fox viewers to be among the most misinformed Americans. A 2008 Pew study ranked Fox News dead last in the number of “high knowledge” viewers, with only 19 percent of Fox viewers able to correctly identify the majority party in Congress (Democrats), the name of the U.S. Secretary of State (Condoleezza Rice), and name of British Prime Minister (Gordon Brown).
Fox viewers are particularly misinformed about the Iraq war. A 2003 study found three common misperceptions about the war held by many Americans: first, that US troops found evidence of close pre-war links between Iraq and al-Qaeda; second, that troops found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and third, that world public opinion favored Washington’s going to war with Iraq. Fox viewers were the most likely to believe these falsehoods: Eighty percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one misperception, compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers. All the other media fell in between. … As to the number of misconceptions held by their audiences, Fox far outscored all of its rivals. A whopping 45 percent of its viewers believed all three misperceptions, while the other commercial networks scored between 12 percent and 16 percent. Only nine percent of [print media] readers believed all three, while only four percent of the NPR/PBS audience did. Yet Hannity and Ziegler were convinced that media malfeasance was the only reason for Obama’s victory. Ziegler even claimed, “Bush would have won 65-35 with fair coverage in 2004.” UpdateFiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver has more on Ziegler's bogus On Dec 4, 5:33 pm, KeithInTampa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hannity and Ziegler are correct. > > For the first time in my lifetime, and I have been following and/or > involved in political campaigns all of my adult life, I have never > witnessed what transpired during this election cycle. Mainstream > media did not report stories that were unfavorable toward liberal, > socialist, or Democrat candidates, and gave prevaricate accounts of > conservative candidates. Governor Palin is a classic example, there > were so many stories, even that were published here in this group that > were untruthful or at a minimum misleading, and when corrected, very > few of the far left members chose to acknowledge the truth, but > continued to spread the lies. > > There can only be several logical explanations for these individuals > and for the thought processes that were posted here by these > referenced individuals. It is caused by either: (A) Ignorance > stemming from the lack of knowledge; e.g.; keeping abreast of world > events and current affairs, coupled with not knowing and understanding > history, political and economic policy, or (B) The refusal to > acknowledge the truth, even when the truth is irrefutable,and more > often than not, even after the individual has been presented with the > truth, and/or; (C) there is an agenda, a motive, and a desire to see > the United States as we know it become a second tier Nation-State. > > As stated, Hannity and Ziegler are right on point.... > > On Dec 4, 5:15 pm, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > They are laughing much harder at you - wasting your time writing to Hannity > > to call him an idiot. I am certain he was devastated. hahahahahahaha > > > CW > > > On Dec 4, 3:32 pm, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hannity and Limbaugh laugh all the way to the bank. > > > You are correct there anyway.... > > but they aren't laughing with you, they're laughing at you. > > > From: "studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 03:00 > > Subject: Re: Hannity: 'If You Don't Listen To Talk Radio, If You Don't Watch > > Fox > > > I just wrote hypocrite Hannity the other day, and ended it by > > calling him an idiot. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 04:00 > > Subject: Re: Hannity: 'If You Don't Listen To Talk Radio, If You Don't Watch > > > Fox > > > On Dec 4, 3:32 pm, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hannity and Limbaugh laugh all the way to the bank. > > > You are correct there anyway.... > > but they aren't laughing with you, they're laughing at you.- Hide quoted > > text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
