"Fox has to be judged a stunning success"

if the criterion is misleading viewers so that they'll vote for *.

Fact-Free News

By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, October 15, 2003; Page A23


"The fair and balanced folks at Fox, the survey concludes, were "the news source whose viewers had the most misperceptions." ...

Now, this could just be pre-sorting by ideology: Conservatives watch O'Reilly, liberals look at Lehrer, and everyone finds his belief system confirmed. But the Knowledge Network nudniks took that into account, and found that even among people of like mind, where they got their news still shaped their sense of the real. Among respondents who said they would vote for George W. Bush in next year's presidential race, for instance, more than three-quarters of the Fox watchers thought we'd uncovered a working relationship between Hussein and al Qaeda, while just half of those who watch PBS believed this to be the case. .."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27061-2003Oct14.html

Media is nothing more that the message of special interest groups who have financial backing to promote their propaganda.

Sad day for the land of the free.