Also on the flight, which offers all viewers the opium of thirty-odd channels fo DirecTV, I spotted these results of an NBC poll confirming that people who believe patent falsehoods about the Obama health care plan are disproportionately consumers of "news" sources like Fox. Sadly, of course, Fox-viewers quite considerably outnumber NBC-viewers (who are clearly susceptible to misinformation and rumor, too). Who could set these people right - whom would they listen to?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Outfoxed
Also on the flight, which offers all viewers the opium of thirty-odd channels fo DirecTV, I spotted these results of an NBC poll confirming that people who believe patent falsehoods about the Obama health care plan are disproportionately consumers of "news" sources like Fox. Sadly, of course, Fox-viewers quite considerably outnumber NBC-viewers (who are clearly susceptible to misinformation and rumor, too). Who could set these people right - whom would they listen to?