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Originally Posted by Camaero
Fox just sounds like "propaganda" because it is the only station to sing a different tune than all the liberal news stations.
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That is such a gross misinterpretation. I won't deny that there are news sources that show obvious political bias often. However there is a decided difference between leaning one way or another on certain stories and generating genuine disinformation which misleads people. Whereas on some stations like CNN where most of it comes off as just reporting with a bit of a slant sometimes in shows like Lou Dobbs, on FOX News the entire production feels like an editorial.
I have watched enough of FOX News to see through their technique. If you watch closely you'll notice that they'll say something decidedly right wing or biased by asking it as a question. Whenever theres a panel if theres a token liberal its usually an agreeable middle of the road commentator that doesn't argue. And any station that features Ann Coulter regularly and hosts Bill O'Reily is suspect to me.
This is an old but familiar story:
A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, in the Winter 03-04 issue of Political Science Quarterly, reported that viewers of the Fox Network local affiliates or Fox News were more likely than viewers of other news networks to hold three views which the authors labeled as misperceptions :- 67% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization" (Compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for NPR/PBS). However, the belief that "Iraq was directly involved in September 11" was held by 33% of CBS viewers and only 24% of Fox viewers, 23% for ABC, 22% for NBC, 21% for CNN and 10% for NPR/PBS
- 33% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" "since the war ended". (Compared with 23% for CBS, 20% for both CNN and NBC, 19% for ABC and 11% for both NPR/PBS)
- 35% of Fox viewers believed that "the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war" with Iraq. (Compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for NPR/PBS)
All that coming from this publicated study:
http://www.psqonline.org/cgi-bin/99_...ee&format=view
I'd say that suggests rather broad misinformation.
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I guess Sadam was a tough man who had the right to rule his country how he wanted.
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And you'd be right on that point if it were the 80s and Saddam were attacking that dangerous Iranian regime. You forget too easily that Saddam was given most of the weapons used in the Gulf Wars against the US by the US for war against Iran.
Don't forget the handshake.
