Re:Fox NEws- remember the PIPA report Oct.2003?

[underpants]

Darn it is a mother when that pesky fuzzy science is used to make facts.

The other "networks" didn't do much better.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/kaymcfadden/2001757992_kay06.html
Monday, October 20, 2003

A just-released report by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy (PIPA) finds a majority of respondents have misperceptions about the war.*

The results show 48 percent incorrectly believed that evidence of links between al-Qaida and Iraq has been found; 22 percent that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq; and 25 percent that world opinion favored the United States going to war with Iraq.

A walloping 60 percent overall held one or more of these misperceptions.

"The more closely you followed Fox, the more misperceptions you had," said Clay Ramsay, PIPA research director. "No other news outlet came anywhere near that."

He said that in a separate examination of viewers citing Fox as their primary source, 45 percent held all three misperceptions.

[gratuitous]

1. Showing once again . . .

That you have to be stupid to get your news from Fox. Or if you're not stupid already, you soon will be.

[underpants]

3. That giant sucking sound is your brain entering the "No Spin Zone"

It makes the fluids in your brain "Fair and balanced".

[Harrumph]

2. Faux should be sued

under the Truth In Advertising act...Fair and Balanced my ass!

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

4. L.A. Times ran a story on them today

Titled: Focus on Fox: 'Pseudo Journalist' Betray Public Trust (sorry no link)

So I emailed fox asking for their response.

They referred me to this article with link:

http://patterico.com/archives/002230.php