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It may be hard to believe.  But a recent survey reported that regular Fox News viewers actually know less about current events than those who don't watch news at all.

Fairleigh Dickinson University asked 612 New Jersey adults how they got their news and then asked them about current affairs.  Most of the results didn't surprise me as they backed up a previous survey. Watchers of Sunday morning shows that discuss public affairs and national newspapers readers scored relatively high.  Fox News viewers scored at the bottom.

What I found amusing was that viewers of the comedy "The Daily Show" with John Stewart were actually better informed on some issues than those who got their news from Fox News or MSNBC.

Note that the poll tested a relatively small sample and thus has a relatively large margin of error.

See the Los Angeles Times article by Michael A. Memoli at articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/21/news/la-pn-fox-news-poll-20111121

On a side note, after Megyn Kelly told Bill O'Reilly on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor that pepper spray was essentially "a food product," a petition went up for her to eat it.  Not just her words, but the pepper spray.  In response, Sam Seder of Majority.FM pointed that peach seeds contain what is essentially a food product, cyanide.  See the petition at www.change.org/petitions/fox-news-anchor-eat-or-drink-a-full-dose-of-pepper-spray-on-national-television.

See Seder's openly biased report at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE2Nxjv6gwM.  The previous survey is discussed at http://loveshade.org/blog/2010/12/are_you_smarter_than_a_fox_new.html. 

The image of Megyn Kelly on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor is a screen capture.  This is intended to help illustrate the article and no threat to any copyright is intended. 

Thanks to Vernon Avaritt III for pointing out these stories.  An opinion expressed by an individual member of The Loveshade Family does not necessarily express the views of the entire family.

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As someone asked before where I get my news, I get it largely through the Internet, primarily Associated Press, NPR, Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo!, and online national newspapers.  I also get news from the openly-biased ACLU.  If I'm really interested in a story, I check more than one source and try to account for bias. -- Alden Loveshade

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They are at it once again. In the name of protecting corporate interests, a new bill is being considered in Congress. Among other things, if this bill passes "The government can order service providers to block websites for infringing links posted by any users." This could include blogs like this one, in addition to Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook. It could also mean blocking sites from other countries so Americans couldn't see them. This isn't what's happening in China, but it's a step in that direction.

Now we're all in favor of individual creators having the right to their own work and are against people stealing an individual's work in the name of "free speech." But as usually happens when the government goes after something big, this bill goes too far.  Let's stop censorship before it begins.

For more info including how to contact your representative, go to http://americancensorship.org/

To see the bill, go to http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/112%20HR%203261.pdf

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"Blood Lust and Innocence" is a "poem in prose form" I wrote simply because I was inspired to write it.  Fortunately, it found a publisher.

As far as I know the story appears in Issue 13 of Hungur Magazine which just came out.  The issue also features ''"Luftgeist" by David Lee Summers of Tales of the Talisman; "Against The Fall Of Night" by Tyree Campbell; "Drifters In The Void" by Jay MacLeod; a poem and art combo called "Bad Alice" by the Marge Simon/Sandy DeLuca consortium; and interviews with Brian Lumley and the a4mentioned David Lee Summers.'  It's available at Sam's Dot Bookstore at http://sdpbookstore.com/hungur.htm.

Much of the magazine deals with vampires on other worlds, but also features some of the home-grown variety.

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Update: I received my copy of the issue and my story does appear as flash fiction.

The use of a small, low resolution of the cover of the magazine is intended to promote the publication and in no way its use be considered a threat to its copyright.

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