On Decemeber 17th, The New York Times Brian Stelter reported on a study conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org purporting to show that Fox News Channel was a major purveyor of “misinformation” communicated to the electorate. Stelter typed:

According to the study, which can be reviewed online, in most cases, the more a person watched and read the news, the less likely they were to have been misled about the facts. But “there were however a number of cases where greater exposure to a news source increased misinformation on a specific issue,” the study’s authors wrote. In particular, they found that regular viewers

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The White House and much of the mainstream media argue that Fox News just parrots conservative talking point. Yet in this October 30th story about the cash for clunkers program, it’s the White House talking points that are echoed without placing those points in context or offering much needed analysis.

Reporter John Voelcker writes:

The program took nearly three quarters of a million heavily-polluting cars and trucks off the roads, and put that many new, much cleaner vehicles in their place. And it boosted the ailing car industry, including suppliers and dealers that employ hundreds of thousands of workers.

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Reporting on preparatory negotiations kicking off on Monday in Bonn, Germany, Fox News Channel treated its viewers this weekend to a “crawler” that claimed the failed “Kyoto Protocol, which committed 183 countries to reducing emissions 5% from 1990 levels by 2012″.

No. It did not. This is a common, material misstatement premised in a UN talking point but which does not withstand scrutiny.

Kyoto committed 35 countries (not 183) to varying levels of emission “reductions” about, 30 of which amounted to emission increases. These ranged from Australia promising to “reduce” emissions by increasing them no more than +8% over 1990 levels, to … Continue Reading