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Old 04-18-2012, 06:06 AM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by 12clicks View Post
Intelligent people know where the news ends and the opinion begins.
So you're only trying to convince INTELLIGENT people? ;) Rightly or wrongly, people THINK that Fox tends to put a conservative slant on the news and CNN a liberal slant. Verbal's post proves that some people, namely him, don't trust Fox News. Anther or not he SHOULD trust Fox is beside the point; the fact is many people don't.

If you want to educate / convince people, use the whole sentence from a Fox article "according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, the Bush era tax cuts...". That way you're citing the CBO, not Fox. Whether or not they are right to do so, people do in fact trust primary sources more than they trust Fox. Fox is a great place to find information, just read what their source is. A lot of times the source Obama himself. They can dismiss Fox as being against Obama, but when he implicates himself in his own words they are nearly forced to see the truth.

Last edited by raymor; 04-18-2012 at 06:07 AM..
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