Comments on: Iraq: Media Manufactured Perception http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/ Americas Majority War on Terror Blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:27:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Daily Dispatch » Blog Archive » Only Certain News http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1077 Daily Dispatch » Blog Archive » Only Certain News Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:54:51 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1077 [...] « Iraq: Media Manufactured Perception [...] […] « Iraq: Media Manufactured Perception […]

]]> By: thecenterpath http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1030 thecenterpath Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:34:11 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1030 Has anyone looked at the tracking of "issues." Although this poll has a 41% "right direction," that is hardly a majority, but the most telling story is the tracking of the issues... They get worse. "Right direction" is so relative and half of them may support sectarian violence for all we know. The issues till the story as far as the mood of the people. How much blue/ green (better) increases compared to red/ orange (worse) increases over time. It is clear that the iraqis view the situation as getting worse for their everyday lives. The lone exception may be wages which has stayed the same. Has anyone looked at the tracking of “issues.”

Although this poll has a 41% “right direction,” that is hardly a majority, but the most telling story is the tracking of the issues…

They get worse. “Right direction” is so relative and half of them may support sectarian violence for all we know. The issues till the story as far as the mood of the people. How much blue/ green (better) increases compared to red/ orange (worse) increases over time. It is clear that the iraqis view the situation as getting worse for their everyday lives. The lone exception may be wages which has stayed the same.

]]> By: Brutally Honest http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1020 Brutally Honest Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:32:42 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1020 <strong>Iraqi poll tells the story......</strong> .... not being told by the world's press:The experts on how things are going in Iraq are not former State Department officials, former CIA officials who may never have set foot in the country. The experts are not Senators who... Iraqi poll tells the story……

…. not being told by the world’s press:The experts on how things are going in Iraq are not former State Department officials, former CIA officials who may never have set foot in the country. The experts are not Senators who…

]]> By: brainy435 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1015 brainy435 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:48:01 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1015 I see it now, thanks. I stopped reading when it said the March poll was the last one. I assumed they were still compiling results from the last quarter. I see it now, thanks. I stopped reading when it said the March poll was the last one. I assumed they were still compiling results from the last quarter.

]]> By: Flying Rodent http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1013 Flying Rodent Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:47:45 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1013 That's meant to be "complacent", I'll feel like less of a dickhead if you know that. That’s meant to be “complacent”, I’ll feel like less of a dickhead if you know that.

]]> By: Flying Rodent http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1012 Flying Rodent Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:45:26 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1012 If I lived in America, rather than one day's train journey from Iraq, I'd be a whole lot more compacent. If I lived in America, rather than one day’s train journey from Iraq, I’d be a whole lot more compacent.

]]> By: RL http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1010 RL Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:42:52 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1010 Flying Rodent, You've got amazing eyesight to see Iraq from where you are! Flying Rodent,

You’ve got amazing eyesight to see Iraq from where you are!

]]> By: Flying Rodent http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1008 Flying Rodent Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:11:29 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1008 Thank God for this poll. Otherwise, I might have had to rely on the evidence provided by my own two eyes. Thank God for this poll. Otherwise, I might have had to rely on the evidence provided by my own two eyes.

]]> By: Thinkyouarewrong http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1007 Thinkyouarewrong Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:12:23 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1007 Phil - the march poll was taken right after the Samaria Shrine was detonated - no chance of that skewing the results is there? Besides, current casualty rates are running about 2/3 of what they were in July. The Lebanon war probably encouraged sympathetic violence. Three months from now the poll will show similar improvement.. Phil - the march poll was taken right after the Samaria Shrine was detonated - no chance of that skewing the results is there?

Besides, current casualty rates are running about 2/3 of what they were in July. The Lebanon war probably encouraged sympathetic violence.

Three months from now the poll will show similar improvement..

]]> By: Phil http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1006 Phil Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:22:21 +0000 http://dailydispatch.amermaj.com/2006/08/25/iraq-media-manufactured-perception/#comment-1006 Timing is critical in polling, isn't it? And one question gives away the timing of this particular poll: "Do you believe that the death of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi will lead to an improvement in the security situation in Iraq?" The poll was taken 1-3 weeks after Al-Zarqawi's death - and that question elicited a 48% YES response. There's no reason to imagine that a summer of INCREASED sectarian violence and a huge INCREASE in the daily Iraqi body count would have dampened that optimism by now, is there? Remember that the Iraqi people have a lot more reason to try to be optimistic after any bit of encouraging news than CIA analysts do ... they have to live there, and they have to have a reason to wake up every morning. Too much pessimism and they might just start strapping bombs on themselves or their cars and driving right into the middle of a marketplace or US checkpoint or something. Timing is critical in polling, isn’t it?

And one question gives away the timing of this particular poll:

“Do you believe that the death of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi will lead to an improvement in the security situation in Iraq?”

The poll was taken 1-3 weeks after Al-Zarqawi’s death - and that question elicited a 48% YES response.

There’s no reason to imagine that a summer of INCREASED sectarian violence and a huge INCREASE in the daily Iraqi body count would have dampened that optimism by now, is there?

Remember that the Iraqi people have a lot more reason to try to be optimistic after any bit of encouraging news than CIA analysts do … they have to live there, and they have to have a reason to wake up every morning. Too much pessimism and they might just start strapping bombs on themselves or their cars and driving right into the middle of a marketplace or US checkpoint or something.

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