Study: Wrong impressions helped support Iraq war

[Malachi151]

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

http://www.philly.com/images/realcities/realcities/6924/47946393308.gif

[daredelvis]

I love this chart and was thinking of posting it myself. I think that from this you can assume that if you are talking to a FauxNews viewer there is at least a 67% chance of them being an idiot (compared to a disappointingly high 17% for an NPR listener).

Daredelvis

[gethane]

This rocks. Guess its clear why I don't hold those misconceptions. NPR everyday. A coworker of mine just didn't believe me when I tried to tell him. He just didn't see why its so wrong that so many americans were confused by these things. I sent him the link.

[Mr Manifesto]

On another BB I was speaking about how crap Fox was. I was told that 'people like me' don't like Fox because they tell the TRUTH (their caps).

:roll: :roll: :roll:

I argued that Murdoch isn't interested in news in the least, he has always been about entertainment (it was, after all, he who introduced the page 3 girl to journalism, though he wasn't the first to use yellow journalism. That remains an American innovation, AFAIK). I also said you could ask Murdoch himself and he wouldn't deny it (in interviews, Murdoch has accused other news sources as being 'elitist', unlike the working class Murdoch. Pfft! I wish my Dad was a newspaper publisher).

Typically, the discussion took a tangent from there.