ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
First off, very small sample size, particularly for those identifying with an exclusive news source. The error was so large as to be inestimable, but >3.5% margin of error in either case.
Of course, the article is in the Los Angeles Times, a newspaper that rarely misses an opportunity to target conservatives in any guise.
Later in the article, MSNBC viewers and other cable news viewers are called out for their ignorance, "And it seems Jon Stewart may be more reliable than cable news anchors. On Occupy Wall Street, the survey found viewers of "The Daily Show" were 12 percentage points more likely to say protesters were predominantly Democratic. MSNBC viewers were the most likely to say the protesters were mainly Republicans."
Why doesn't the headline read that MSNBC viewers are morons? Couldn't have anything to do with the common idealogy (read: liberalism) shared by these the LA Times and it, could there? Nah...it's gotta be that Fox News viewers = morons.
Yellow biased muck raking journalism writ large.
Yeah - what were the poll questions and the "correct" answers? Polls are notorious for being constructed with a certain end in mind and manipulating questions to ensure that end.
Some people who listen to PBS in their car commuting developed a game to play with PBS news shows. They listen in the car, and try to figure out what actually happened before they get home to read about it.
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