Saturday, December 03, 2005

Bush: 55% of Americans Deeply Irresponsible

"Those Democratic congressional leaders who try to suggest that we don't have a plan [to achieve victory] are deeply irresponsible," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who reiterated it was possible to bring some troops home next year.

A snap poll by CNN/Gallup/USA Today this week said 55 percent of respondents believed Bush did not have a plan to "achieve victory for the United States in Iraq."
By putting these two paragraphs directly together in their story, Reuters shows that they actually have some cojones.

2 comments:

Lone Ranger said...

By putting those two paragraphs together, Reuters demonstrates how successful the media has been at manipulating public opinion by selective reporting of the news.

Jil Wrinkle said...

I don't know how reporting what the majority of Americans think could be called "selective".