Two very different takes on the same poll (1 Viewer)

[RightinNYC]

This is amusing - two articles, both written by the AP, both talking about the SAME poll.

AP Poll: Americans Optimistic for 2007

An AP-AOL News Poll finds that while most Americans said 2006 was a bad year for the country, three-fourths thought it had been a good one for them and their families.

"In a time of war, so little has been asked of us as citizens," said Given, who teaches ancient Greek at East Carolina University. "We haven't had to sacrifice anything. We've been allowed to live our lives very, very well."

Looking ahead, optimism reigns.

Seventy-two percent of Americans feel good about what 2007 will bring for the country, and an even larger 89 percent are optimistic about the new year for themselves and their families, according to the poll.

Poll: Americans See Gloom, Doom in 2007

Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans' grim predictions for the United States in 2007.

But on a brighter note, only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea over the countries' nuclear ambitions. An overwhelming majority thinks Congress will raise the federal minimum wage. A third sees hope for a cure to cancer.

These are among the findings of an Associated Press-AOL News poll that asked Americans to gaze into their crystal balls and contemplate what 2007 holds for the country.

Six in 10 people think the U.S. will be the victim of another terrorist attack next year, more than five years after the Sept. 11 assault on New York and Washington. An identical percentage think it is likely that bad guys will unleash a biological or nuclear weapon elsewhere in the world.

There is plenty of gloom to accompany all of that doom.

Seventy percent of Americans predict another major natural disaster within the United States and an equal percentage expect worsening global warming. Fewer than one-third of people, or 29 percent, think it is likely that the U.S. will withdraw its troops from Iraq.

Both stories are factually true, they just rely on different interpretations.

Remember that the next time someone tells you that the media can't really twist a story that much.

 

[cherokee]

This is amusing - two articles, both written by the AP, both talking about the SAME poll.
Both stories are factually true, they just rely on different interpretations.

Remember that the next time someone tells you that the media can't really twist a story that much.

How very true.
Justify what you want to see.

 

[Tashah]

This is amusing - two articles, both written by the AP, both talking about the SAME poll.

Both stories are factually true, they just rely on different interpretations.

Remember that the next time someone tells you that the media can't really twist a story that much.

Journalist1 - "Look! The sky is falling!"
Journalist2 - "Look! It's raining manna!"

:spin:

 

[Billo_Really]

Originally posted by Cherokee:
How very true.
Justify what you want to see.

You are an authority in this area.

 

[RightinNYC]

Journalist1 - "Look! The sky is falling!"
Journalist2 - "Look! It's raining manna!"

:spin:

hahahahaha, very nicely put, I guess that's a fair way to look at it.

 

[Stinger]

"In a time of war, so little has been asked of us as citizens," said Given, who teaches ancient Greek at East Carolina University. "We haven't had to sacrifice anything. We've been allowed to live our lives very, very well."

Let me speculate, she wants to raise the taxes on the rich but not herself.

 

[niftydrifty]

Remember that the next time someone tells you that the media can't really twist a story that much.

Or authors of books on Conservatives and giving.

 

[Stinger]

Or authors of books on Conservatives and giving.

Offer your rebuttle on it, I think there is a thread about it where someone offer pure conjecture but no facts to back up the same contention.

 

[niftydrifty]

Offer your rebuttle on it, I think there is a thread about it where someone offer pure conjecture but no facts to back up the same contention.

I don't what a "rebuttle" is.

If you meant "rebuttal," then, uh, I already have, in the proper place.

My post was meant as a little in-joke directed at RANYU.

So, what is the point of your post?

Let's see here. You "think" there is a thread. That's pretty good, Stinger. But you're not sure. And what was it that you thought? You thought that "someone offer pure conjecture."

Here's a suggestion for you Stinger. Take a look again at that thread you think you thought you saw. But after you do that, why don't you work on your literacy so that you can type your findings in a matter that makes sense to reasonable people? Then, after that, why don't you come back and let us know what you find out? I'm sure we'll all be really interested in what you have to say.

If you'd like to become acquianted with someone offering pure off-topic conjecture and no facts (um, got any?), have a look in the mirror, Stinger.

 

[Stinger]

I don't what a "rebuttle" is.

yeah you do and the rest of your ad hominem isn't worth replying to.