CHENEY TOUTS FOX NEWS AS PINNACLE OF ACCURACY: Last month, the WP
reported, "Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference
call with tens of thousands of Republicans." Although it is "unusual
for a president or vice president to single out a commercial
enterprise for public praise," Cheney said, "I end up spending a lot
of time watching Fox News, because they're more accurate" than other
media. Of course, a University of Maryland poll last year found that
Fox viewers were far more likely than viewers of any other network to
have at least one misperception about the war in Iraq. All told, 80
percent of Fox News viewers believed at least one inaccurate fact
about the war, compared to just 23 percent of PBS viewers.