Study: Fox News Viewer's Most Uninformed / Ignorant on Iraq War

[Patriot_Spear]

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/iraq/6918170.htm

PIPA's seven polls, which included 9,611 respondents, had a margin of error from 2 to 3.5 percent.

The analysis released Thursday also correlated the misperceptions with the primary news source of the mistaken respondents. For example, 80 percent of those who said they relied on Fox News and 71 percent of those who said they relied on CBS believed at least one of the three misperceptions.

The comparable figures were 47 percent for those who said they relied most on newspapers and magazines and 23 percent for those who said they relied on PBS or National Public Radio.

[oneighty]

1. Alas!

We are lost!

180

[Hokie]

2. This confirms what we all know

Dumbasses watch Fauxnews. I am surprised CBS is second. No surprise that NPR/PBS followers are the most intelligent.

[trapper914]

35. CBS...I'm not surprised

There was a story the right wingers picked up on a few weeks ago involving a study revealing CBS having the most "positive" war coverage...even more so than Faux.

[dbt]

40. That's what I'M talkin' about!

Of all the networks, CBS had the longest and most honored tradition of truth-telling and fact-finding at their command (see Cronkite, Walter, ca. 1968) but they chose not to use these tools when yet another "president" lied to us about yet another "war."

The fact that they elected to roll over for bu$h regarding this abomination means that CBS has far more to answer for than the rest of the Whore Nets.

And Dan Rather used to be a Journalist!

:argh:
dbt

[Scairp]

3. How dumb are the American people?

Looks like some of them are pretty dumb. This would be funny were it not so very sad. This false perception that WMD's have been found, even in light of the Kay report, and that there is a connection between al Qaeda is widespread and pervasive. What, did they all think that even Bush was lying when he said there was no connection? I don't get it. How could so many be so ill informed?

[Guaranteed]

28. This is beyond dumb.

This is mass delusion. It's absolutely insane, and it makes me want to leave.
Would be an interesting study for psychologists, though. I think that this shows that people put so much faith in their leaders that they just automatically assume that when the President pushes so hard for something like the Iraq war, the proper rationale MUST be there. It's reverse logic- it's not that the war must be started because one of those things is true, it's that one of those things must be true because the war must be started.

[zanana]

37. It's not about being dumb or smart...

It's about what you WANT to believe. People wouldn't watch Fox News if they didn't want to believe in the political ideology that controls Fox News. I know alot of people who support Bush and the war in Iraq. They're not dumb--in fact, most of them are particularly bright. They go along with the conservatives in the Republican Party because the ideology BENEFITS THEM. It's pure self-interest.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. I move we strike the words "on Iraq war"

from the title of this thread. All in favor say Aye. Motion passes unanimously.

[BlueJazz]

7. Alright Dudley....

..what did you do with the horse?
I liked your signiture line when you had the chick and the horse..
Wasn't it "and his trusty steed? (or something like that)

[Dudley_DUright]

11. My trusty steed's name is "horse"

and the "chick" you refer to is my costar (and now wife) Nell. They are currently on vacation together in the south of France and will be back soon (at least I think so, they seem to have been gone an awfully long time now). Thanks for asking. :-)

[Danmack]

20. Aye (nt)

[dbt]

5. Somebody needs to shove this poll

Up Dan Rather's ass. He USED to be a Journalist!

:grr:
dbt

[smallprint]

We are a nation

of deranged, deluded, drugged zombies.

:silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:


Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition.

[alcuno]

6. This is a riot!

However, FAUX viewers will never know because they are relying on FAUX. It's a virtual circle of ignorance.

[BeHereNow]

8. Truly Frightening!

These people live in YOUR neighborhoods...
they shop at your markets, they send their dim children
to your childrens schools, they are everywhere.
Be afraid.
Very.
BHN

[saigon68]

33. DIRTY JEWS KNIFING HONEST GERMANS AND POLES IN THE BACK

If this phrase offends you read on!!!! We call it spin-- its really propoganda.

It was done in the last century too, from 1933-1945. A German named Joseph Goebels had more than 80% of Germans and 90% of Poles believing that Jews were dishonest merchants, had fleas and lice, were filthy vermin, nun rapists and that their ancesters killed Christ.

His program worked so well that 6 million Jews and millions of other "undesirables" ie: Gypsies, gays, Slavs and communists, were rounded up and exterminated. Many who (the SS , gestapo) believed the above phrase performed their duties with uncommon zeal. Ordinary citizens turned in Jews for bread and extra rations.

If Joseph were alive today, he would work at Faux. In fact someone like him does work there.

The Chimpanzee's handlers have planned this propaganda all along.

The sad part is so many democrats in congress went along with this crap.

[RedEarth]

9. I thinik I'll post this article on a hard right board and ...

stir up a little trouble tonight. They are so extreme most of them just get there news from rush and newsmax. Fools.

[keopeli]

10. These people include many of my friends and family.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

16. Keep us updated on the results...

... I'm in the mood for some entertainment as well. :-)

[DemonFighterLives]

12. Great Poll

This thread is cracking me up. These Fox/Rush robots don't have a clue. DU Rules! :D

[Cocoa]

13. Fox doing its job

propaganda outlet for Bush.

Boggles my mind that people choose to watch Fox News.

[BlueCollar]

14. Add me to the list

of PBS supporters. This is scary folks...

[BuckeFushe]

15. other than CBS, does this really surprise any of you?

[Toucano]

25. NPR suprises me.

I would think it would be lower.

[Guaranteed]

27. Yeah like....1 percent. n/t

[dbt]

32. I am completely UNsurprised by CBS's appearance on the list.

They have long had the reputation of fact-finders and truth-tellers, thanks to people like Murrow and Cronkite and programs like 60 Minutes.

My theory is that viewers turned to them for some truth about bu$h and his dirty little war and they simply declined to tell it. Seeing that CBS was raising no flags over all this chicanery, viewers assumed that there was no 'there' there.

To me, this makes CBS bigger whores than Fochs and CNN combined. This is why Dan Rather has so much to answer for, IMO. He USED to be a Journalist!!!

:freak:
dbt

[prolesunited]

17. Can they sue the media

for delivering a defective product? :shrug:

[Bozola]

18. The real graphic looks like this:

[nwstrn]

34. Great chart, Bozola

Love it! Rush listeners would probably be at 100 percent.

[mike_c]

19. something's not right about this result....

I just posted this same question in GD. Why don't the percentages sum to 100 percent? If 67 percent of the sheep who believe the al-Qaida myth gave Fox as their primary news source, that only leaves 33 percent of the remaining believers to split among the other primary news sources. What's up with that?

[leftist_rebel1569]

21. They're polling different sets of people

this is a group of people who listed their primary news source, then answered their questions. So, it's broken down into groups and then graphed.

Kinda get what i'm saying? :shrug:

[mike_c]

24. got it....

Yeah, the wording doesn't make that clear.

[kalashnikov]

22. i think the graph is mis-worded

I think they mean that of those who have Fox as their primary news source 67% belive that nonsense. Rather than of those who have those misconceptions 67% watch the wily Fox.

[True_Blue]

23. Thanks for posting this

It really shows the effect of the media's propaganda. Only 25% support the war if they do not hold to any of the three misconceptions.

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. Completely uninformed common people are polled

regarding their opinions everyday and the results are taken seriously. Decisions and policy are set based on these polls.


Our lives are increasingly shaped by the outcome of polls. It's all you ever hear about anymore. Polls seem to influence the results of other polls.

[saigon68]

39. Its like polling heads of cabbage

To see what they think, about the rain fall !!!!

[0007]

29. Those stats pretty much sez it all!

We get very little truth here in the United States of America.

Only what the wealthy wants us to know.

[Festivito]

30. A PIPA link, and overall stats on 3 misperceptions.

[i]I took this from a Google cache and I edited it:
1. 48% incorrectly believed that evidence of links between
Iraq and al Qaeda have been found, 
2. 22% that weapons of mass destruction have been found in
Iraq, and
3. 25% that world public opinion favored the US going to war
with Iraq. [/i]

Misperceptions FOX CBS ABC NBC CNN Prt NPR/PBS 
None of the 3  20% 30% 39% 45% 45% 53% 77% 
1 or more      80  71  61  55  55  47  23

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/Media_10_02_03_Press.pdf

[Zech Marquis]

31. I'm shocked...

NOT! :evilgrin:

[trapper914]

36. Sadly...

...when presented with this, RWers will still claim that there IS proof of WMD and an Al Qaeda connection. Their argument will be this survey proves what a fine news organization Faux is.

[2cents]

38. We owe those FOX viewers props...

...for making the ultimate synaptic sacrifice by voluntarily submitting themselves to a government controlled brain-rotting audio/visual experiment.

By their sacrifice, future generations will know the consequences of not having a free press.

Thanks guys/gals (if you can still read)