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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (692730)	7/19/2005 2:48:29 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

LOL!! OK. Seems a bit of a stretch to me...

To: JBTFD who wrote (692730)	7/20/2005 12:40:33 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The problem with your wild speculation is that it ignores the massive misinformation campaign by the MSM. Media Misinform Public II Media Blog Stephen Spruiell Reporting Media Blog reader Joe wrote: If this poll is a damning indictment of the mainstream media, does that really matter as long as the general public laps up what the mainstream media tells them with complete credulity? Isn't this poll a damning indictment of the American people, and doesn't it show that the power of the liberal press is as strong as it ever was? Doesn't it indicate that this country is in serious trouble when the press can behave in such an blatantly one-sided, partisan fashion, and the vast majority of the American people are completely oblivious to this fact? Doesn't this poll indicate that the "new" media's actual influence is still miniscule when compared to that of the old media? Doesn't this poll suggest that Republicans who are expecting electoral repercussions in 2006 for the Democrats' shameful behavior may be most unpleasantly surprised? I agree with several of Joe’s points on the press, but I don’t think this is a damning indictment of the American people. I need to clarify something from my last post, in which I wrote: What does it say about the mainstream media that for two weeks they have given blanket coverage to this issue, yet 75 percent of the American public has been misinformed? I wrote that because only 25 percent of poll respondents said they thought that the administration had fully cooperated with the investigation — a woefully small proportion given that the facts indicate that they are right. However, the leftover 75 percent broke down into two groups: the 47 percent who said they thought the White House had not cooperated, and the 28 percent who said they have no opinion. That’s out of a polling sample in which only 53 percent said they were following the story “very closely” or “somewhat closely” (details here abcnews.go.com. I think most Americans are choosing to remain rationally ignorant about the specifics. Given the stupidity of this particular scandal, I don’t blame them. Nor do I blame the 47 percent who think that the White House “is not fully cooperating with this investigation” — a belief that’s unsupported by the facts. If they're relying on the major national papers and the network news broadcasts, how could they believe otherwise? Journalists have concentrated their coverage on the administration’s "refusal to cooperate", because the administration has refused to cooperate with them (the MSM). In the process, they have made the administration’s refusal to cooperate with the press look like a refusal to cooperate with the investigation. These poll results are the consequence of that deception. media.nationalreview.com abcnews.go.com media.nationalreview.com