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[aravistarkheena.livejournal.com]

Eh.

[oddityangel.livejournal.com]

Seconding the 'Eh.' His response to the first question was a cliche eye roller and it didn't get much better from there.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I can see your point of view entirely. But even though a cliché, Fox news still manages to run these sort of polls on a fairly regular basis.

[dranakin.livejournal.com]

Proof?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Well....I can't give you categoric proof that the earth orbits the sun either but evidence is a different matter
I quote from wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies

Polls and surveys
According to a Journalism.org survey of 547 journalists from various publications and news outlets, Fox News Channel was found to be most easily identifiable for serving a partisan ideological position:

At the same time, the single news outlet that strikes most journalists as taking a particular ideological stance - either liberal or conservative - is Fox News Channel. Among national journalists, more than twice as many could identify a daily news organization that they think is "especially conservative in its coverage" than one they believe is "especially liberal" (82% vs. 38%). And Fox has by far the highest profile as a conservative news organization; it was cited unprompted by 69% of national journalists.[32]

A poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports during September 2004 found that Fox News was second to CBS as the most politically biased network in the public view. 37% of respondents thought CBS, in the wake of the memogate scandal, was trying to help elect John Kerry, while 34% of respondents said they believed that Fox's goal was to "help elect Bush".[33]

According to the results of a 2006 study by The Project for Excellence in Journalism, the network was most frequently cited by surveyed journalists as an outlet taking an ideological stance in its coverage, and most identified as advocating conservative political positions,[34] with 56% of national journalists citing Fox News as being especially conservative in its coverage of news.[35]

A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press showed "a striking rise in the politicization of cable TV news audiences . . . This pattern is most apparent with the fast-growing Fox News Channel."[36] Another Pew survey of news consumption found that Fox News has not suffered a decline in credibility with its audience, with one in four (25%) saying they believe all or most of what they see on Fox News Channel, virtually unchanged since Fox was first tested in 2000.

No dount a biased (i.e. Not owned by Rupert Murdoch) interpretation. But the rest of the article is damn good too.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Ooops I appear to have posted a poll.

[pentha.livejournal.com]

lol ppl who belong in a political party r teh sheeplez!!1

Other than that, good cartoon.

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

In spite of the eh's from others, I liked this one a lot!

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I love polls and pollsters. I love that in a country as large and diverse as the USA 'newsgathering' organisations like Fox will commission specific-selective polls that distort the nature of the community being represented. I admire the skill which the pollsters employ in the framing of the questions to be asked. But most of all I adore the fact that some small though significant part of the American population buys the poll results as legitimate information.
It gives me hope that there's a living for me out there, if not riches.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

CNN is often every bit as guilty as FOX. (http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/25/cnns-idiot-is-obama-really-a-patriot-poll/)

"Is Obama a patriot" indeed. Holy crap.

[sunpony.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, they're all guilty. I can't think of an unbiased news organization; just about all of them serve the power structure. The few that I trust try to at least not let their biases infect the way they pass on information. But Fox seems particularly partisan. CNN is just a cabal of whores, pandering to whatever they think will get people to watch and attract advertisers.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord, I got a call once from someone who clearly wasn't actually taking a poll, but was HEAVILY pimping Governor Jeb Bush's tax policies and education "initiatives." She said it wouldn't be more than ten minutes, but 20 minutes later I just got disgusted with all the what-color-is-the-sky-in-your-world propaganda and hung up on her. InKREDIBULL.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Another poll from that great wiki article:

A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, in the Winter 03-04 issue of Political Science Quarterly, reported that viewers of the Fox Network local affiliates or Fox News were more likely than viewers of other news networks to hold three misperceptions:

67% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization" (Compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for NPR/PBS). However, the belief that "Iraq was directly involved in September 11" was held by 33% of CBS viewers and only 24% of Fox viewers,
23% for ABC, 22% for NBC, 21% for CNN and 10% for NPR/PBS

33% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" "since the war ended". (Compared with 23% for CBS, 20% for both CNN and NBC, 19% for ABC and 11% for both NPR/PBS)

35% of Fox viewers believed that "the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war" with Iraq. (Compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for NPR/PBS)
In response, Fox News contributor Ann Coulter characterized the PIPA findings as "misperceptions of pointless liberal factoids" and called it a "hoax poll"


I'm so glad that article is protected.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Ya ever get the feeling that maybe Ann Coulter is actually a much shallower person than, even... Nicole Ritchie? I mean seriously.

[sunpony.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes I do. And far more narcissistic.

[desidono.livejournal.com]

I am and eww... Strong enough for a man, but who'd want her?

[neonleonb.livejournal.com]

I got a similar thing for the Democratic governor primaries in California; someone was polling to hype Westley's record and policies. Apparently the name for that is "push polling." I was not impressed, and made damn sure to spread around (http://neonleonb.livejournal.com/46306.html) the fact that you shouldn't support him.