[lbo-talk] Re: Margolis: Why There is No WMD Outrage

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jun 16 10:32:40 PDT 2003


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > It's not surprising that many don't know that WMD sightings have been
> proven false, but isn't it another thing entirely to hear that "about
> one-third of Americans think Iraq _used_ WMDs during the war"
> (emphasis added)? Has anyone made an insinuation that Iraq actually
> _used_ (rather than just possessed) WMDs during the war?
>

Do figures exist on what proportion of households subscribe to a newspaper? And another rather crucial figure which obviously cannot be discovered, what proportion of families watching TV news are also playing with the children, talking to each other, talking on the phone, etc. etc. etc. And what proportion of households neither watch the national news nor subscribe to a metropolitan newspaper?

And so forth.

Carrol



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