{"id":7621,"date":"2012-07-19T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:49:35","slug":"fox-news-again-ignores-key-results-of-its-own-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7621","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Again Ignores Key Results Of Its Own Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/interactive\/2012\/07\/18\/fox-news-poll-37-voters-say-are-better-off-than-four-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News released a poll yesterday<\/a>. The reason for that is that Fox News barely made any mention of it themselves. And when they did bring it up, it was to trumpet results that advanced their partisan agenda. Here is a selection of what Fox considered to be the pertinent headlines from their survey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>Fox News:<\/strong> Nearly two-thirds of voters say government is the problem<br \/>\n<strong>Fox News:<\/strong> 37 percent of voters say they are better off than four years ago<br \/>\n<strong>Fox News:<\/strong> Voters pick Condi Rice as Romney running mate<br \/>\n<strong>Fox Nation:<\/strong> 37% of Voters Say They Are Better Off Than Four Years Ago<br \/>\n<strong>Fox Nation:<\/strong> 64% of Voters Say Government is the Problem\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notice anything missing? How about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If the presidential election were held today, how would you vote?<\/strong><br \/>\nObama 45% \/ Romney 41%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Fox decided to bury what any other news enterprise would regard as the lede. And it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7113\" target=\"_blank\">not the first time<\/a> they&#8217;ve done this either. In fact, the only time Fox ever publishes the result of any Obama\/Romney poll is when Obama is behind.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting question in the poll that Fox swept aside was this curiously phrased inquiry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some people support a tax increase on high-income earners because they believe the country needs more revenue to reduce the national debt and the better-off can afford it. Others oppose tax increases on high-income earners because they believe high earners are the people who own small businesses, create jobs and spend a bigger share of the money to keep the economy going. Which do you agree with more \u2013 those who support or oppose tax increases on high-income earners?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is not exactly a testament to fairness and balance. First of all, it makes those who favor higher taxes appear to be interested only in gouging the rich. The truth is that higher taxes for the wealthy is actually aimed at reversing a trend wherein the middle class has been burdened with more and more of the nation&#8217;s debt over the past thirty years. It&#8217;s an acknowledgement that an equitable nation does not tax the most fortunate at a lower rate than everyone else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Charts\/job-creators.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Charts\/real-job-creators.jpg\" alt=\"The Real Job Creators\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>Secondly, the question falsely characterizes the rich as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5942\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;job creators&#8221;<\/a> (click image to enlarge chart). However, most independent economists agree that jobs are created by consumer demand, not the wealth of entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the assertion that the rich spend a bigger share of their money is utterly absurd. Poor and middle class citizens spend nearly 100% of their earnings on trivialities like rent and groceries and medicine. The rich put far more of their funds into savings, retirement, and investments.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the grossly biased phrasing of the question, a clear majority, 52 percent, of the respondents said they support tax increases on high-income earners, with 42% opposing. Imagine how much more support there might have been for raising taxes on the rich if the question had not been so biased. And imagine how upset Fox must have been to see the results after working so hard to produce the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder that Fox has tried to sweep their own poll under the rug. These surveys are expensive and they aren&#8217;t undertaken for recreation. The fact that Fox would shell out for this data and then downplay it shows how desperate they are to skew their reporting to advance their conservative agenda. And that goal far outweighs any sense of duty to be ethical journalists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> To elaborate on the tendency of Fox News to only report polls that are unfavorable for Obama, This morning they published the results of a New York Times\/CBS News poll that had Romney leading 45-43 (within the margin of error). But they still have not reported the results of their own poll showing Obama ahead 45-41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have heard that Fox News released a poll yesterday. The reason for that is that Fox News barely made any mention of it themselves. And when they did bring it up, it was to trumpet results that advanced their partisan agenda. Here is a selection of what Fox considered to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1YV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7113,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7113","url_meta":{"origin":7621,"position":0},"title":"Obama Surging Ahead Of Romney In Fox News Poll That Fox News Ignores","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/17\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For additional evidence that Fox News is the PR agency for the Republican Party, note the feverishly excited treatment that Fox News gives to polling when the results favor Mitt Romney: In the past two months Fox Nation has posted at least seven articles on election polling and every single\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6905,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6905","url_meta":{"origin":7621,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Romney&#8217;s Phony Lead Over Obama","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/20\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes the brazen disrespect Fox News has for honest analysis is breathtaking. They seem to have such a fierce determination to deceive their audience that no limits are drawn for their blatant biases. Take, for example, the article posted this morning reporting on the results of an NBC\/Wall Street Journal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8088,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8088","url_meta":{"origin":7621,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation Admonishes Their Faithful: Don&#8217;t Believe The Polls","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/25\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As Mitt Romney sinks further into an abyss of electoral sludge, his Pharisees at Fox News dispense divine guidance to their disciples. The word from on high at Fox Nation is: \"Don't Believe the Polls.\" It is true that most of the recent polls show President Obama widening his lead\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7751,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7751","url_meta":{"origin":7621,"position":3},"title":"Fox Nation Ignores Polls By CNN, Reuters, And &#8212; Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/9\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It must be hard being the PR agency for the Romney campaign (aka Fox News) when the real world is constantly interfering with your efforts to distort reality. Nevertheless, Fox News soldiers on to try to spin the gloomy prospects of Mitt Romney's Circus of Desperation into something passably positive.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6956,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6956","url_meta":{"origin":7621,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Buying The Buffett Rule","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/26\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"C'mon guys, you're making this way too easy for me. This morning Fox Nation posted an item with the headline, \"Poll: Americans Not Buying Buffett Rule.\" That seems straightforward enough. The poll ought to simply show that a majority of respondents do not believe that raising taxes on millionaires will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1531,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1531","url_meta":{"origin":7621,"position":5},"title":"Fox News Poll: Obama Beats All Republicans In 2012","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/22\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"All it takes is a fluke victory in Massachusetts for Fox News pundits predict the demise of the Democratic Party. In the days since Scott Brown won the special election for the Senate the conservative press has been unreservedly giddy. 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