posted January 10, 2015 03:35 PM            

What? DUH! Presumed by whom?

posted January 10, 2015 05:17 PM            

Awww gee, another shadow guvment conspiracy.

posted January 10, 2015 05:43 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
Awww gee, another shadow guvment conspiracy.

Where's your proof? Who is it this time?
Illuminati?
Bilderbergers?
Club of Rome?
Masons?
Space aliens?

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posted January 11, 2015 02:11 PM            

As to the PTB they are everywhere and, thank god, their infighting looks more obvious everyday. I think we are at a point that is cyclically reached, where the human spirit makes it painfully obvious that the total control game will never work.

posted January 11, 2015 03:19 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
Testing. Been trying to post from my tablet not phone the site tells me there is no Catalina registered? But here I am! ?!

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posted January 13, 2015 11:00 AM            

A little more flesh on the story. Fox presenter suggest "we need to kill them" (Muslims?)

"Expert" proceeds to paint scary pictures of how Islam has taken over England. ..what is he an expert at? Telling "some people what they want to hear"...that America is still the best and we must be very afraid of allowing Muslims to destroy our society....?

posted January 13, 2015 04:59 PM              

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Originally posted by Catalina:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/201 5/01/12/1357178/--FoxNewsFacts-trending-after-expert-says-major-British-city-entirely-Muslim?detail=facebook

Yes I can see why Fox is so trusted..by the gullible.
Many of its "viewers" are likely giving a look to see what idiocy they are pushing today..

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posted January 13, 2015 06:27 PM            

Little panic in Rupert Street? Because Dish dont think Fox is worth what they're demanding, the push is on to PUNISH DISH rather than negotiate on price.

Not just these ads but "subtle" prompts from hosts on several shows about how life without Fox is unbearable.
I get them on my car radio sometimes. .

posted January 14, 2015 05:44 PM            

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Rational people would conclude Fox is most watched because Fox is most trusted.

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First, no one is truly rational. Second, if they were rational, they wouldn't come to that conclusion. Popularity does not equate with trustworthiness. Fox's shows have found a loyal audience. Are we to say that any show that finds an audience is "trustworthy?" Would that be rational by any meaning of the word?

Fox relies on a number of biases for its popularity. There's Confirmation Bias, Ingroup Bias, Status-Quo Bias, Negativity Bias, the Bandwagon Effect, and Projection Bias all in play when it comes to Fox.

Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.

In-group favoritism, sometimes known as in-group–out-group bias, in-group bias, or intergroup bias, refers to a pattern of favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members.

Status quo bias is a cognitive bias; a preference for the current state of affairs. The current baseline (or status quo) is taken as a reference point, and any change from that baseline is perceived as a loss.

The negativity bias (also known as the negativity effect) refers to the notion that, even when of equal intensity, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than do neutral or positive things.

The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others. In other words, the bandwagon effect is characterized by the probability of individual adoption increasing with respect to the proportion who have already done so.[1] As more people come to believe in something, others also "hop on the bandwagon" regardless of the underlying evidence.

Projection bias is a feature in human thinking where one thinks that others have the same priority, attitude or belief that one harbours oneself, even if this is unlikely to be the case.