 masbury says: U of Maryland study: "Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions." Love your Fox News, if you like, but challenge it with other sources if you want to have your facts right. And don't allow yourself the laziness of saying, "Oh, you can't trust studies, you know..." FN either attracts or creates mis-informed citizens. I bet this was an unbiased research. The left is always so much smarter and wiser than the right, or so they say. Sure they are....  I'll bet anyone who has questions about the bias of this study could go look it up and come up with concrete examples instead of uninformed musings... Or say things that prove the clips right all along. The Pew Research Center is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the United States and the world. The Center and its projects receive funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Trusts, a single entity, is the successor to, and sole beneficiary of, seven charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by the adult children of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. Sun Oil? Yeah, sounds like left-wing biased research. NOT! Life is hard for rebubbacans these days. This is fairly easy to understand. People who watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report wouldn't get most of the humor unless they're up on the news. One of the reasons I watch both shows is that they say things that need to be said but do not get aired on the "news" networks. I bet this was an unbiased research.Jay - I wish I could list all the times (they seem like hundreds) when I've presented what appeared to be plain fact, and a conservative has given this response. I hope you see it for what it is. It is a very common conservative response to factual challenge: when the facts can't be disputed, to say "oh, well, you can't trust sources like that." Is it not a way of protecting yourself from thinking? Of insisting you have to be right, and insisting that only those who agree with you are credible? Is that really what conservatism wants to be? I've observed this before (and been belittled for it by the usual wingnuts here), but one can characterize liberals as people who believe they're right and those who disagree with them are misguided, while conservatives are people who believe they're right and those who disagree with them are wrong. I'll go futher to say that many of the conservative talking points I've been hearing recently don't reflect much in the way of passion or conviction. The "new ideas" never seem to go beyond convenient sound bites then fall flat and get discarded. Here are some examples of the so-called conservatives' lack of passion. As reported in [url=http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=2417&o=ffx&l=dir&q=teab... Sorry - my quotes got messed up - my edition for firefox doesn't handle the text editor very well. The link for the first quote is: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/1-Million-Tea-Bags-but-No-Place-to-Dump.html The link for the second quote is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041500943.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009041402948 Funny how the Right seem to think that plain, straightforward facts are "Left-Wing Bias", and that Right-Wing Propaganda (fully debunked) is "Honest News". What are they afraid of hearing? The truth. I've got news for you, Jay. Aunt Bea is dead. Apple Pies are made in factories. Baseball is riddled with corruption and cheating. For the last 8 years, the US tortured people, killed innocent civilians and handed your hard-earned money over to rich war profiteers, and now they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes, AGAIN! And guess what, Jay. You're letting them do it!! darke - very well said, tight comment! Only thing I'd change is 8 years to 60. |
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