NYT explains NATO's victory

Rkmickey at aol.com Rkmickey at aol.com
Sat Jun 5 16:02:37 PDT 1999


Thanks, Doug, for serving up the numbers right away, as usual!

It's interesting that the Pew folks do mention how the wording of questions affects answers in one case but just put this information out there without comment:

"The public now worries as much about civilian victims in Yugoslavia as about U.S. troops. Some 50% of Americans say they are very worried that innocent people are being hurt or killed by the air strikes. And 37% are very worried about Serbian civilians, a figure that is unchanged from April (40%)."

Yikes! Separating "innocent people" from "Serbian civilians" seems like a choice of wording that is itself a choice of sides.

And the finding that

"Even fewer (49%) are very worried that U.S. troops could be involved in Kosovo for a long time, down from 63%."

indicates that a lot of Americans are even more deluded than I thought -- have their wee brains no space to process information about Bosnia and Kosovo at the same time?

K.Mickey



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