30 percent still support Bush because Fox News won’t report the news

If you’re curious why there are so many Conservatives who refuse to jump off the Bush bandwagon, the reasoning is simple – they watch Fox News. Therefore, they just don’t know what’s happening in the world, outside of Hollywood gossip.

War takes up less time on Fox News

On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the
United Nations estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report about the bombings.

Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour.

That wasn’t unusual. Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

The difference was more stark during daytime news hours than in prime-time opinion shows. The Iraq war occupied 20 percent of CNN’s daytime news hole and 18 percent of MSNBC’s. On Fox, the war was talked about only 6 percent of the time.

Another story that has reflected poorly on the Bush administration, the controversy over U.S. attorney firings, also received more attention on MSNBC (8 percent of the newshole) and CNN (4 percent) than on Fox (2 percent), the Project for Excellence in Journalism found.

But just ask a Fox News viewer about Rosie O’Donnell, Paris Hilton or some missing teen in Omaha. Then they’ll have all the answers.

So remember, in reality, Bush’s approval ratings would be much lower than the abysmally low numbers he’s getting now. It’s just that the Republican National Committee propaganda arm – Fox News – is keeping his base as ignorant as is possible.

–WKW

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