Dubya's Approval Rating Rises

[Todd]

...but I'll bet you didn't hear about it from ABC News.

Two months ago, there was an ABC News/Washington Post poll that showed George W. Bush's job approval level had fallen eight points to 55 percent. On World News Tonight, reporter Terry Moran said, "the more people learn about this president, his policies, our poll suggests, the less they're likely to support him."

Last week, though, the same survey showed Dubya's approval rating had jumped four points, to 59 percent. But did World News Tonight or Good Morning America say anything about Dubya's rebounding ratings? Nope.

The Media Research Center says both ABC News programs ignored last week's poll. They also ignored increased approval of Bush's environmental and energy policies. They did, however, report the poll's findings that 63 percent of Americans support embryonic stem-cell research.

ABC isn't the first network to ignore its own polls. CBS News did it a few months ago when it spiked a poll that showed 67 percent of Americans supported Bush's tax cut plan. In March, ABC News found that 58 percent thought Bush's tax cut is "about right" or "too small." They didn't report that, either.

In the world of leftist-dominated media, there can be no good news about a Republican administration.

http://www.mrc.org/news/cyberalert/2001/cyb20010803.asp#1

 

[lavender]

 

[WriterDom]

What we need is a hot scandal to make the liberals feel better. And not the mayor of Tohinkie, New Hampshire either. Something involving murder and interns would be good. Todd had Bush doing human sacrifices the other day, but that didn't fly. Keep digging Todd. The liberals are getting edgy.

 

[Doulton]

"The story began as a braod investigation of allegations of lax security at theme parks and resorts, leading to inadvertant hiring of sex offenders, including pedophiles, as park employees.
Because Disney was to be only one of several park owners under the microsope, Ross and Schwartz got the go-ahead on the story. After all, it wasn't the first time the team had faced the prospect of reporting on their parent company...But reporting has a life of it's own and as Ross and Schwartz progressed on the theme-park investigation they found that Disney wan't on the periphery, but at the centre of this story. When they handed in two drafts of what had turned into a sex-and-scandal expose of Disney World, David Westin, president of ABC news, rejected the drafts. "They didn't work," said network spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. Even though Disney denies the allegations of lax security, first made in the book Disney: The Mouse Betrayed, and even though CEO Michael Eisner is on record saying "I would prefer ABC not to cover Disney," ABC denies the story was killed because of pressure from it's parent company. Murphy did say, however, that "we would generally not embark on an investigation that focussed solely on Disney, for a whole variety of reasons, one of which is that whatever you come up with, positive or negative, will seem suspect."
-Excerpt from No Logo, by Naomi Klein

ABC is owned by Disney, one of the largest and most well known abusers of human rights in the world. Increasingly, large corporations are unwilling to subject their projects to the scrutiny of what the independant media will air. The answer? Transcend the limits of merely selling a product with advertising on other people's stations. Buy the stations; make them your own.

Wouldn't it be great if the same oil companies that funded Bush's campaign took over CNN?
"In the world of leftist-dominated media, there can be no good news about a Republican administration."
Personally, I think there are bigger worries.

 

[Always]

*blinks* politics make my eyes water... but people tell me i ought to be a lawyer... oh well.

the virgin has a point, though.