Posted on 03/21/2010 10:27:07 PM PDT by Nachum
Haaretz misled readers to give the impression that an overwhelming majority of Israelis see US President Barack Obama as “fair and friendly” toward the country, the newspaper’s pollster, Tel Aviv University professor Camil Fuchs, said on Sunday.
Both the English and Hebrew editions of Friday’s Haaretz led with the headline “Poll: Most Israelis see Obama as fair, friendly toward Israel.”
The English edition elaborated near a picture of Obama that “69% say Obama is fair and friendly.”
The story itself gives no numbers, but the lead says “A sweeping majority of Israelis think his treatment of this country is friendly and fair.”
The English edition contains no graphic distributing the actual numbers, either online or in print.
The print and online versions of the newspaper’s Hebrew edition included a graphic indicating that just 18 percent of respondents considered Obama “friendly” toward Israel, 3 percentage points fewer than the 21% who called the president “hostile” to the Jewish state.
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Man, the commies sure like that word “sweeping.”
Amateurs!
The New York Times, ABC, NBC and CBS do that all the time, and they get away with it too.
I figured somebody was smoking or drinking something with those kind of poll results when I first read them online.
Liberals are liberals, in whatever country.
I thought that poll had a fishy smell to it.
“Fair and friendly” to Hezbollah and Hamas.
And all along I thought it was just the democrats in congress who loved the dictator.
THIS IS THE POLL TIME/AP USED!!!
Given that it’s Israel, I’d say more of a rotten uncooked shrimp smell. Worse than fishy on at least a couple levels.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“THIS IS THE POLL TIME/AP USED!!!”
Correct, someone needs to ping all the people who posted the usual “Jews are suidal morons” posts on the other thread.
Surprise, surprise.
It’s in Haaretz. What do you expect?
So 18% from the poll somehow magically became 67% in the media.
Media is about as believable as: "Oops, I slipped and fell in."
The print and online versions of the newspaper's Hebrew edition included a graphic indicating that just 18 percent of respondents considered Obama "friendly" toward Israel, 3 percentage points fewer than the 21% who called the president "hostile" to the Jewish state.Edited by sonderkommandos. Thanks Nachum.
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