Fox News lets the numbers do the talking
David Brock’s Mediamatters.org has spotted some shameless survey abuse by Fox News in the increasingly bewildering healthcare reform “debate”.
Stats from a poll of doctors by Investor’s Business Daily (which has been slated by poll analyst Nate Silver) were cited repeatedly by Fox’s news anchors. And in a display of audacity that we can’t help but grudgingly admire, the figures were in one case presented with the caveat “not scientific” in the graphic at the bottom of the screen.
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IBD poll on Fox News
The facts (or not) pretty much speak for themselves on this one, we think.
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