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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

They're all pay to play -- a quick search for "saddam americans
believe 9/11" showed a number of articles about those polls. The last
one I found was Newsweek's, and it showed 42%, almost as much as the
44% who didn't, believe that Saddam was directly involved in 9/11.
There are tons of polls that have shown that over the last year -- I'm
really surprised you're suprised to be hearing about it.

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 02:44:17 -0400, Don Rua <rua AT mindspring.com> wrote:
>  
> Matusiak said: 
>   
> "If these people are all making up their own minds, then why does 1/3 of 
> the country still believe that Saddam and Iraq toppled the WTC?" 
>   
> --I've never met anyone that espoused this belief, and there are definitely
> some backwoods rednecks in my county. Can you cite the survey?
> 
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: matusiak 
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ 
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:04 AM 
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Editorial vs. News as it applies to Fox News 
> 
> On Oct 8, 2004, at 6:46 AM, James Dasher wrote:
> 
> > That assumes that everyone everywhere will always stridently lie.  But 
> > a few bald-faced lies?  They generally get uncovered.  Then people 
> > make up their own minds.
> 
> This media bias discussion is getting tired to the Nth degree, but I 
> had to counter this fallacy.
> 
> If these people are all making up their own minds, then why does 1/3 of 
> the country still believe that Saddam and Iraq toppled the WTC?  Is 
> this simply their own personal version of The Truth? (as you note there 
> is no monopoly on "The Truth").
> 
> And if no media employee is ever punished for their lies, then where is 
> the discouragement to not do so in the future?
> 
> Get the lie out there first.  Make it BIG!  Make it GRAND!!  Make it 
> TOO CRAZY TO BELIEVE!!!  And then, if and when you file a retraction, 
> place it on the 15th page of Sports section buried underneath a few 
> advertisements in -12 point type.
> 
> That is journalism?  Or Objective?  Or Fair and Balanced?
> 
> Stop lying to us and everyone else.
> 
> 
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Evan

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