The Fox News Effect (Study claims Fox News won election for Bush in 2000)

[onehandle]

We report. You decide. Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news?

Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted the Republican Party's share of the vote in the 2000 election and delivered Florida to Bush.

"Our estimates imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 8 percent of its audience to shift its voting behavior towards the Republican Party, a sizable media persuasion effect," said Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California at Berkely and Ethan Kaplan of Stockholm University.

In Florida alone, they estimate, the Fox effect may have produced more than 10,000 additional votes for Bush -- clearly a decisive factor in a state he carried by fewer than 600 votes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050302299.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Yeah.That and all the vote supression and the thieves on the Supreme Court

I guess FAUX NEWS made it close enough to steal.

[jaysunb]

4. This is BS , as far as I'm concerned.

Bush is in office because of the felonious five SCOTUS justices. Period.

[Democrats_win]

2. Bull Shit! Bush did not win the 2000 election HE WAS THE LOSER!

[lovuian]

3. The election was stolen by a cabal and the Congress and

Supreme court went against the wishes of its people!!!

thats the fact and history will bear that out!!!

[AX10]

5. Bush STOLE the 2000 election.

[rodeodance]

6. why so difficult to believe?--afterall Fox was/is a free 24hr advertizment

for Bushco.

[AndyTiedye]

9. They Helped Make It Close Enough To Steal

Certainly we tend to underestimate the effect of BILLIONS of dollars worth of free advertising --
enough to completly bury the biggest Democratic fundraising effort in history, or any fundaising
effort we could ever conceive of.

You may only be able to fool some of the people all of the time,
but FauxNews sure helps make sure they STAY fooled, no matter what.

[Quantess]

18. Who owns the news?

I have a pretty good idea who owns Faux News.
Nice bumper sticker by the way.

:kick:

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Payback's a bitch. Wait until this November, Faux.

We'll see who's laughing then...............

[Cha]

8. Actually, Gore won in 2000 so

they can put that in their crack pipe and smoke it.

[robbedvoter]

10. "WON" as in reported Florida in W's column - NBC followed

John Ellis Bush - in the Faux's control room effected that little maneuvers. let's not buy the BS that W had more votes - he never did - not in 2000, not in 2004!

[yorkiemommie1]

11. i almost puked when Paul Bergala

said ' Bush won the election fair and square' on today's Lou Dobbs show.

[journalist3072]

12. They've got it all wrong here

What really "won" the election for Bush, was the fact that Fox News hired his cousin to head the team which would call states for either candidate on Election Night.

John Ellis, Bushie's cousin, was the head of the four-person team which analyzed the VNS exit poll data and made judgments about which candidate (Bush or Gore) would win each state.

And Fox News was the very first network to call Florida (and the election) for Bush.

And John Ellis admits he was on the phone with Jeb and Bushie on Election Night, and he kept calling Austin as the vote totals came in.

Now let's say CNN hired Al Gore's cousin to head THEIR decision desk on Election Night. The right wing would have had a field day!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/14/politics/main249357.shtml

[hollowdweller]

13. Fox Didn't Make Folks Vote For Bush, but to vote AGAINST Kerry

The whole delivery of the message was to create questions about Kerry and just make people dislike him. Just the same old "not in the mainstream" hatchet job that Bush Sr. used against Dukakis.

[damntexdem]

14. Faux News didn't win the election for Dubya.

But it may well have kept Gore's victory so close that it allowed for the GOP theft of the election.

[Faryn Balyncd]

15. Its that "liberal sports and travel bias"

"The Republicans even preferred to get news about sports and travel from Fox while Democrats didn't have as strong a preference on non-political stories, Iyengar found."

[onehandle]

16. The point of this study is that Fox News supports the GOP. Period.

Yes we all know the crimes that the Bush campaign pulled in Florida and other states. Yes we know that in the end, a crooked five SCOTUS members picked the president for 300 million people.

But this study is about media corruption specifically from Fox News. Their anchors are mostly openly Republican. They are run by a Republican party operative. And now a representative of Fox News is the face of the Bush White House's PR wing.

Fox programs to attract certain people and skews the news they see to move their votes to Republican.

[UpInArms]

17. One Call Too Many?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/14/politics/main249357.shtml

NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2000

(CBS) A Fox News consultant involved in making judgments about presidential "calls" on Election Night admits he was in touch with George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by telephone several times during the evening, but denies having broken any rules.

Fox is considering disciplinary action against the consultant, John Ellis, who is a cousin to Bush and a former Boston Globe columnist who stopped writing about the campaign for the paper, citing family "loyalty" to Bush.

On Election Night, Ellis headed a four-person team that analyzed Voter News Service (VNS) exit poll data for the network and made judgments about which candidate would win each state when all the votes had been counted. The decision to broadcast those projections was made by a Fox executive.

At 2:16 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Fox became the first network to call Florida for Bush. Minutes later, CBS, ABC, NBC, and CNN made the same call.

...more...

:nuke:

[Rex]

19. They reversed the results! Before Foxnews lied ABC/NBC/CBS

had Gore winning by a large majority, then gosh if the MSM didn't come out and cower to Fox when they LIED and said Bush was in the lead. COWARDS. FUCKING COWARDS ONE AND ALL.

[WhiteTara]

20. by the title, I thought they were talking

about chimpy's cousin who worked at Fox and just declared him the chimporer...but no, bland assertions that I don't doubt. Along with the limpbag and the rest of the fox screaming liars it did affect the sheeple.

[Uncle Joe]

21. This is like blaming the dog after a methane expulsion.

I am heading for a cinco de mayo party and will be back tomorrow for a more comprehensive analysis.

[featherman]

22. Clearly the MSM had the long knives out for Gore in 2000

Fox certainly led the charge in portraying him a fool and a liar 24/7. They had an obvious agenda. But the other networks, wire services, talk radio, and leading newspapers (aside from the LA Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribe, and a few others) were lazily happy to join on the bandwagon thumping Clinton's veep at every chance and artificially (cynically?) boosting the image and capabilities of "fresh face" G.W. Bush.

Whether this was due mostly to personal animosity on the part of most of the Washington news corps or "payback" against Clinton for (who knows?) or a deep conspiracy or just lazy, malicious fun or comic dread at the propect of a "boring" Gore administration combined with desire for new amusement... all this can be debated endlessly. It certainly was a clinical display of pack "journalism".

The media mindset was simplicity itself: "Gore is a boring, unlikeable stiff and everything he does is artificial and calculated. Bush is easy going, natural, friendly and fresh". Every story just easly flowed from there.

The bottom line is that Gore was beaten like a drum by the MSM without letup and could do NOTHING right or positive in their eyes no matter what he tried. The most remarkable thing about that campaign was that he got any votes at all...much less winning the plurality. It took a Herculean effort on the part of the media