Can anyone prove that Fox News is a dishonest network?

That doesn't prove anything Clarus. I do appreciate your effort and the fact that you provided a good source, but it's inconclusive statistical data. All it does is show a correlation. Correlation is not causation. If it were, I could argue that selling ice cream causes women to get raped. If you aren't aware of that study I'll link you to it. Now I have one small issue with the study itself. At least one of those misperceptions has to do with a person's interpretation of the facts, which is a decision reached by the individual. "48% incorrectly believed that evidence of links between Iraq and al Qaeda have been found" You'll notice that this is the most common misperception in their study. The reason is that there was a small bit of evidence of a link. This study was done in 2003 at which point there was no conclusive evidence to disprove the links, particularly the meeting of an Iraqi official with Mohammad Atta. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2004/bush_contradicted_on_iraq_al_qaeda.html With such information, I feel that it was rather presumptuous of them to treat it as though that was a factual misperception when the evidence available made it quite believable for it to be true. At best, the study proves that there are more Fox News viewers with misperceptions, but doesn't prove that Fox News has ever given them false or biased information.

Thanks for the response. Obviously no news network is without fault. I just get sick of the people who act as though Fox News is the conservative equivalent of the National Enquirer. Granted, I've even seen liberals use Enquirer articles on mylot to attack Sarah Palin. If anyone looks at the articles on their website, they're typically the same topics with the same facts as other sites like cnn.com. Obviously the opinion pieces are different, but those are opinions.

I suppose they can't be bothered to look up alot of numbers which'd settle the argument? Fox technically has the most conservatives on it than any other network, but some would be surprised to know that it is not exclusively right leaning. CNN tries and fails to even the whole thing. MSNBC tries and is SLIGHTLY more successful...but in the end...*shakes my head* Part of the problem is, and heavens me I'm trying to lessen the anger toward the mainstream with my explaining here..._ Is that people from either side, that're pretty extreme will try to claim that somehow each network is somehow more leaning toward one party or another as if that's a main factor of truth...when it's really just zealotry and bullsh**. Unfortunately, I can't tell you where and when this started. Some people on the networks themselves sometimes play into this bit, or encourage it -- or so it seems to me. And the unpleasant pattern of faults, is not an even one, or an orderly one...which makes the whole thing even harder to get people to settle down about. So really, I feel ya man. I don't like alot of the crap that spews out really. I try to avoid it altogether, but people seem to gravitate toward the sensational. It's what sells, it's what grabs attention...so it'll probably always exist in some form or another, regrettably. As for opinions, well, sometimes we want opinions and other times we want the news. I have a bigger beef with opinions that masquerade as the news, but I digress lol, because it really does scatter across the spectrum of mainstream television and internet. If I see someone biting your head off in the future on this issue, I'll have to be sure to point them out to this discussion, huh? No need for more hyper political crap that doesn't even matter, we've ENOUGH of that to wade through as it is.

Actually, numbers came out this past April that people who watch The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are the most informed people over all other news networks. I reckon it's because they tend to mention more stuff that the rest of national television tends not to. Kenny: I despise all mainstream news networks. ALL of them. They ALL lie, they all have bias. I'm an alternative news junkie, which means most of my current events know-how comes from online. Takes up alot of my time, and is technically a job I don't get paid for...but I end up more informed and get to growl at my television every time it's on.