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Friday, August 25, 2006

Looking Up

Well, here's further evidence that the media representation of news is not reality.

Glenn Reynolds:
HMM: "In a recent poll, more Iraqis, who live in Iraq, say Iraq is headed the right direction than Americans who merely watch TV reports about Iraq or read newspaper reports about Iraq."
I actually took the time to go through the entire poll. It's fascinating: Iraqis are generally upbeat about their country, clearly spelling out what they think its issues are and clearly concerned with them - but not in despair at all. I found one aspect particularly fascinating:

Nationallly, 75% of Iraqis say the security situation in the country is poor.

But, when asked about the security of their own neighborhoods, 60% give the security in their town or neighborhood a passing grade.

This shows the power of the media to conflate a perception–even among those closest too it.

Fascinating.

1 comment:

  1. Amazing-

    But now I guess we know why Hezbollah keeps talking about their "victory" even though Israel was kicking their butts. Just keep saying what you want people to believe and they'll eventually believe it.

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