college students and voting: a felony?

People in the college-student age range frequently get a bad rap for not being interested in voting, so it's interesting to see all the voter registration efforts taking place at UMKC this semester. "Ms. Musings," the blog produced by Ms. Magazine, points to a story out of Arizona where a local Fox News report suggested that college students attending school in Arizona were breaking the law for registering on campus to vote. Why would Fox create such a news story when the local voter registrar says no one has ever been prosecuted over residency?

Use what you know about rhetoric and what you know (or can figure out) about these various sources of information:

• What is the ethos of Fox News?
• What is the ethos of Ms. Magazine?
• What is the ethos of The Nation
(quoted in the blog entry)?

(Thanks to Crooked Timber for the link.)