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"Fox News Viewers are Most Uninformed" study gets facts wrong (World Public Opinion, Clay Ramsay, Steven Kull, Evan Lewis) - 12/17/10

A group of researchers from the University of Maryland's "Program on International Policy Attitudes" [1] (link) have released a study attempting to show that the most misinformed voters are those who are viewers of Fox News. One problem: those researchers can't even get their facts straight on one of the issues they used to determine whether voters knew the truth. Those researchers set themselves up as the arbiters of truth, and then invented their own facts. Now, since the issue they got wrong is the Obama citizenship issue, don't expect anyone who promotes their study to point out that it's...

Robert Koulish has a very skewed view of immigration's impact on democracy - 05/18/10

A lot of what the supporters of massive/illegal immigration say has a Fahrenheit 451 feel to it, and today's example is offered by the Washington Post blog post by Steven Levingston entitled "Immigration's strain on democracy" [1].