The National Bureau of Economic Research has published an economic study of the 2000 Presidential election that in those cities which had FOX News they convinced 3 to 8 percent of its viewers to vote Republican who would not otherwise have done so. "The Fox News effect could be a temporary learning effect for rational voters, or a permanent effect for voters subject to non-rational persuasion."
I'm not at all sure what this means other than that FOX News has been a force moving the American voting public towards voting for Conservatives. It does intrigue me that the Democratic/Liberal blogosphere began to become significant in about 2002 and could possibly be interpreted as a reaction to the FOX News effect. This latter is, of course, pure speculation based on timeing, so should not be given much weight.
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