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SemperEadem

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15. what?
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 10:05 AM
Jun 2012
Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate and KRC Research polled 1,000 people in April for their annual "Civility In America" study. Thirty-five percent of participants said that Fox News is "uncivil," while 53% described it as "civil."

CNN and MSNBC fared slightly better. Thirty-one percent considered MSNBC "uncivil" and 49% "civil." Thirty-one percent of respondents thought CNN was "uncivil," and 53% "civil." PBS was considered most civil of the networks.


If the percentage is greater, then that means that that carries the day.

IOW, 53% said it was civil--therefore, that's the majority opinion.

The article title should say "over 1/3 of people polled said fux was uncivil". That's more the truth than alluding to that being the majority opinion of this poll.

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