[Peace-discuss] Breakdown of MSM propaganda

[C. G. Estabrook]

	The Post Tells Readers that the Public Is More Concerned
	About Deficits Than Jobs
	Sunday, 20 June 2010 13:00

The Post is always anxious to tell readers about the need to reduce the deficit 
- its endlessly repeated editorial line. Of course this is the opposite of what 
the polling data show.

For example, a poll conducted by Pew on June 3-6 asked respondents which 
economic issue concerned them most. Forty one percent said jobs, only 23 percent 
said the deficit. A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll from early May found that by 35 
percent to 20 percent people thought economic growth and job creation should be 
the first economic priority. Only 20 percent ranked the deficit first.

A Fox News poll, also done in early May, found that by a margin of 47 percent to 
15 percent people thought the economy and jobs was a more important priority 
than the deficit and government spending. An early April NYT/CBS poll found that 
23 percent of respondents listed the economy as the top priority, while 22 
percent listed jobs. Only 11 percent listed the deficit.

So, the polls don't seem to support the Post's claim that the public is more 
worried about the deficit than jobs.

Thanks to Ben Somberg for calling this one to my attention and supplying the 
polling data.

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