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5/12 http://www.fair.org http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=2 Search for Fox WMD. 85% of the Fox viewers think that there's WMD and only 16% of the other news think so. That is just one small example. FYI, it also reports that CNN and other liberal media are unfair as well. Basically, ALL news source suck, some more than the other. \_ And what do you conclude from those numbers? \_ And in other news, CBS has apparently hacked up an interview to make the interviewee say what they want. http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010443.php \_ The world is not about United States. The world is about... THE WORLD. That's why I balance spotty and biased U.S. News sources such as liberal LA/NY Times and red neck Fox News with other news source, such as European Daily, Japan Times, and Al Jazeera. I'm serious about the last one. To really understand the world, one needs to temporarily detach oneself from his/her cultural roots and try to understand and even empathize from all perspectives. I don't mean you should become a suicide bomber or burn American flags, but at least try to think the way they think. Unfortunately, this is too much to ask from your average Yankees (with IQ below 90). \_ Average IQ is less than 90? \_ Average IQ is 100, although in the past few decades it's been rising steadily. And I don't think average American necessarily have average IQ. More tests are needed, obviously. http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm \_ First off, the average IQ is just that, the measure of the average IQ of a cohort. Therefore, the average American has an average IQ by definition. If you mean that the average American has a lower IQ than the average XYZ country, then that's another story. You can't say that the average American doesn't have an average IQ, that's like saying the average American doesn't make an average income. Second, IQ only measures a very finite quantitative subset of reasoning skills. Just because you have a high IQ doesn't mean that you have a high EQ or that you are more intelligent in things which the test does not measure for. Trying to correlate IQ with politics is one of the dumbest exercises around. You might as well correlate favorite colors with politics or favorite foods with politics. \_ Who are these people? They even have problems w/ the Newshour. |
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| www.fair.org -> www.fair.org/index.php read more) Welcome to the new and improved website of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporti ng! Please enjoy the site, and bear with us as we work out some of the m inor problems you might encounter while visiting our site. "Foreign Fighters" on a "Rampage," US Media on a Roll (5/12/05) by Chris Shumway An Associated Press report on recent attacks by Iraqi insurgents uses unf ortunately common inflammatory language when calling the actions a "ramp age" by "foreign fighters." But when troops from the United States kill untold numbers of civilians in Fallujah and elsewhere, their actions are described with the more legitimate-sounding term "offensive," and the b irthplace of participating soldiersobviously not usually Iraqgoes unme ntioned. National Conference on Media Reform marks a milestone in the progressive media activism movement that continues to build momen tum, even while facing the growing challenges of a "dangerously dysfunct ional media system that tells us more about Michael Jackson's trial than the truth of what is going on in Iraq." John Tierney's hope that ignoring bad news will make it go away. A newsflash for Tierney and all the others on the right eager to declare the media tangled up in its own "liberal bias," or just plain in cahoots with the insurgency: The story here isn't 100 television cameras aiding and abetting the militants. It's 100 years of acid history uncorked by a US invasion. It's the Bush administration planning for the Iraqis to throw flowers--not their own bodies strapped with explosives--at their liberators' feet. Journalism's True Calling (5/11/05) by Eileen McNamara Describing "unfettered journalism as a potential 'antidote to indifferenc e'" The challenge... is persuading media outlets burdened by budgetary cutbac ks to invest in reporting that shines a light on corruption, economic in justice and political exploitation of ethnic rivalries. |
| www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=2 Fox at the Front: Will Geraldo set the tone for future war co verage? |
| powerlineblog.com/archives/010443.php Today's hottest media story relates to a CBS News report on the judicial filibuster by Gloria Borger that aired Monday night. The segment include d an interview with Ken Starr, in which Starr, seemingly in reference to the Republicans' effort to end the filibuster, said: "This is a radical , radical departure from our history and from our traditions, and it amo unts to an assault on the judicial branch of government." The two Starr quotes are the main feature of th e segment; what is most interesting to me is Bob Schieffer's reaction: h e clearly understood Starr to be talking about the Republican effort in the above quote. has made public an email in which he wrote: I sat on Saturday with Gloria Borger for 20 minutes approximately, had a wide ranging, on-camera discussion. In the piece that I have now seen, and which I gather has been lavishly quoted, CBS employed two snippets . The 'radical departure from our history' snippet was specifically add ressed to the practice of invoking judicial philosophy as a grounds for voting against a qualified nominee of integrity and experience. I contrasted the curre nt practice and that employed viciously against your father with what o ccurred during Ruth Ginsburg's nomination process as numerous Republica ns voted, rightly, to confirm a former ACLU staff worker. They disagree d with her positions as a lawyer but they voted -- again rightly -- to confirm her. As we have noted repeatedly, the mainstream media have pulled out all the stops to support the Democrats on the filibuster. It is also being reported that Starr has aske d for a copy of the video of his interview and been turned down by CBS, but I haven't yet seen that in writing anywhere. I don't know, maybe the re is an innocent reason why CBS wouldn't want to give up the tape; |
| chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm IQ and Politics Wow, what can I say, in the first 24 hours over 540,000+ people viewed th is page! I originally posted this to a few friends on a forum, using inf ormation from a list just like this created after the 2000 election. The IQ data was originally attributed to the book "IQ and the W ealth of Nations", though I checked and couldn't find them in the curren t edition, I had posted saying such at the bottom of the table. The test s and data were said to have been administered via the Raven's APT, and The Test Agency, one of the UK's leading publishers and distributors of psychometric tests. I have recently been emailed by someone claiming to have seen a retractio n many issues later on the behalf of the Economist Magazine. Here you can see t he correlation between percentage of college graduates in a state and wh om they voted for in the 2000 election. I think matching census data to the results of the election reveals some very interesting things. Boston Globe between the divorce rate p er state, and who they voted for, as it turns out, the higher the percen tage of people voting for Bush, the higher the divorce rate. That is ver y interesting considering many people voted based on 'values' and 'moral ity'. I am still scratching my head about that one, I was a 'values vote r' as well, though I value honesty, compassion, and human life. I am glad that so many people are so interested in IQ, statistical correl ations, and their relation to politics. I believe such correlations are increasingly interesting as some candidates this year funneled more mone y into biased advertising and partisan propaganda than has ever been att empted in the history of the world. However, a few issues later on, the 'Economist' published a retraction, saying the data was unable to be verified and possibly a hoax." Interestingly the last 14 ranking states in grads (<22%) were a ll bush winners (many 55-60+% voted for bush), and 11 of the top 14 rank ing states in grads (>30%) were kerry winners." Here is a conservative site that appears to debunk the original 2000 e lection IQ chart thing, and has a lot of relevent information. It was not posted as an elitest diatribe, just an interesting correlation. |