17 Nov 2003 @ 4:36 PM
Shamelessly stolen from Jason.
Current.org | News viewers’ perceptions
The University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes surveyed a bunch of people and asked them to tell whether these three statements were true or false:
- Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or proven to be supporting al-Qaeda.
- Weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq.
- International popular opinion favored the U.S. war against Iraq.
All three are false. But two-thirds of about 3,000 respondants said at least one was true. How likely you were to be suckered depended on your primary source of news:
- Fox — 80%
- CBS — 71%
- ABC — 61%
- NBC — 55%
- CNN — 55%
- Print media — 47%
- PBS/NPR — 23%
If you watch Fox News, you’re almost four times as likely to believe false things than if your primary news sources are public broadcasting.
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