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Steven Perez
Think Progress » Fox News viewers overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform proposals. - http://thinkprogress.org/2009...
Think Progress          » Fox News viewers overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform proposals.
"Here’s another way to look at the misinformation: In our poll, 72% of self-identified FOX News viewers believe the health-care plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants, 79% of them say it will lead to a government takeover, 69% think that it will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and 75% believe that it will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing care for the elderly. But it would be incorrect to suggest that this is ONLY coming from conservative viewers who tune in to FOX. In fact, 41% of CNN/MSNBC viewers believe the misinformation about illegal immigrants, 39% believe the government takeover stuff, 40% believe the abortion misperception, and 30% believe the stuff about pulling the plug on grandma. What’s more, a good chunk of folks who get their news from broadcast TV (NBC, ABC, CBS) believe these things, too. This is about credible messengers using the media to get some of this misinformation out there, not as much about the filter itself. These numbers should worry Democratic operatives, as well as the news media that have been covering this story." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet
I'm not sure if we get an censored version of Fox News in the UK but I always seem to miss the rampant right wing hyperbole. I've seen plenty of clips though and it's somewhere between laughable and frightening. - Martin Bryant