Those things that matter; June 23rd, 2005:
The majority of Americans think Gitmo is fine. 36% claim prisoners are being treated "better than they deserve" (45% of republicans, 28% of democrats), another 34% say treatment is "about right". 20 percent of the US thinks that prisoners are treated unfairly (7% of republicans, 30% of democrats, and 22% unregistered). Additionally, 14% agree that prisoner treatment is similar to nazi tactics. 69% disagree with Durbin's comments.
source.
Possible bias: ordering of the questions and differences in numbers of registered republicans and democrats could tilt the poll either way. This is probably contained within the 3% margin of error.
A US U2 spyplane crashed in the United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot. The exact location of the airplane is not being released, possibly because the US does not want to risk the capture of any advanced technologies.
source.
Iraq will officially restore relations with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
source.
my notes: it is extremely unlikely that all relations between Iraq and its neighbors were entirely ended. Rather, the embassies continued operations, but the head ambassador was removed as a sign of disapproval. Continued embassy operations allows for routine communication and emergencies, so it is a common practice to continue diplomatic operations, despite the absence of the head ambassador. Thus, this restoration may be mostly symbolic.
A police officer was beaten to death, or died of a heart attack influenced by being beaten, by anti-genetically modified food protestors and "we want to skateboard in this park" protestors in Philadelphia. The officer was a 17-year veteran of the force, and fell during a tussle with the protestors. While on the ground, the officer was either kicked to death or kicked while dying from a heart attack, or some other medical problem that was set off by being beaten. A few of the protestors expressed remorse, but many only complained that they are being called cop killers. The officer was black (I will explain why I mention this later).
No national news paper has reported this; Fox News gave it a brief mention once (to the best of my knowledge). The story was reported only in the Metro or Local section of a Philadelphia newspaper. Radio host Glenn Beck spoke about the story for a notable portion of his 3-hour talkshow and read an email from a police officer who described the death. Major news networks in Philadelphia have a tape of the beating and death, but refuse to show it, nor even mention the story.
My notes: If a black man was beaten by a white officer, on tape, the story would cover the national news for days. I can prove it. Do you remember the name Donovan Jackson? Well, CNN keeps an article, which should bring back memories of a black teen being slammed against the hood of a police car and punched in the face. In that case, the teen did not die – he didn't have any permanent injuries, in fact. The story developed over the national news for at least a week, and caused an uproar on both sides of the political isle. The left claimed brutality, the right claimed the cops were set-up by the teen and the man who filmed the incident, who was allegedly a friend of the beaten teen. My thanks to CNN for using the server space to keep articles that are nearly three years old. Records of daily news events are, in truth, rare, and most services charge a subscription for access to old articles.
The media should play fair and report this story. However, because protestors committed the crime, the much of the media refuses. I know first-hand that the media loves left-wing protests, but will ignore right-wing protests like the plague, no matter the size nor subject. This is despicable. The news media exists to report what is happening in the world; its job is to give the facts to the public, with as little distortion or interference as possible. From there, the public can use analysts' opinions or conclusions, or develop their own beliefs with similar access to the facts as the analyst. Thus, the public reaches the best conclusions that it can, because it can pick from a wide range of opinions and the basic understanding of events is accurate.
Those are the important stories, to the best of my limited knowledge, of today. Additional reports will be added in later posts, if possible.
source.
Possible bias: ordering of the questions and differences in numbers of registered republicans and democrats could tilt the poll either way. This is probably contained within the 3% margin of error.
A US U2 spyplane crashed in the United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot. The exact location of the airplane is not being released, possibly because the US does not want to risk the capture of any advanced technologies.
source.
Iraq will officially restore relations with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
source.
my notes: it is extremely unlikely that all relations between Iraq and its neighbors were entirely ended. Rather, the embassies continued operations, but the head ambassador was removed as a sign of disapproval. Continued embassy operations allows for routine communication and emergencies, so it is a common practice to continue diplomatic operations, despite the absence of the head ambassador. Thus, this restoration may be mostly symbolic.
A police officer was beaten to death, or died of a heart attack influenced by being beaten, by anti-genetically modified food protestors and "we want to skateboard in this park" protestors in Philadelphia. The officer was a 17-year veteran of the force, and fell during a tussle with the protestors. While on the ground, the officer was either kicked to death or kicked while dying from a heart attack, or some other medical problem that was set off by being beaten. A few of the protestors expressed remorse, but many only complained that they are being called cop killers. The officer was black (I will explain why I mention this later).
No national news paper has reported this; Fox News gave it a brief mention once (to the best of my knowledge). The story was reported only in the Metro or Local section of a Philadelphia newspaper. Radio host Glenn Beck spoke about the story for a notable portion of his 3-hour talkshow and read an email from a police officer who described the death. Major news networks in Philadelphia have a tape of the beating and death, but refuse to show it, nor even mention the story.
My notes: If a black man was beaten by a white officer, on tape, the story would cover the national news for days. I can prove it. Do you remember the name Donovan Jackson? Well, CNN keeps an article, which should bring back memories of a black teen being slammed against the hood of a police car and punched in the face. In that case, the teen did not die – he didn't have any permanent injuries, in fact. The story developed over the national news for at least a week, and caused an uproar on both sides of the political isle. The left claimed brutality, the right claimed the cops were set-up by the teen and the man who filmed the incident, who was allegedly a friend of the beaten teen. My thanks to CNN for using the server space to keep articles that are nearly three years old. Records of daily news events are, in truth, rare, and most services charge a subscription for access to old articles.
The media should play fair and report this story. However, because protestors committed the crime, the much of the media refuses. I know first-hand that the media loves left-wing protests, but will ignore right-wing protests like the plague, no matter the size nor subject. This is despicable. The news media exists to report what is happening in the world; its job is to give the facts to the public, with as little distortion or interference as possible. From there, the public can use analysts' opinions or conclusions, or develop their own beliefs with similar access to the facts as the analyst. Thus, the public reaches the best conclusions that it can, because it can pick from a wide range of opinions and the basic understanding of events is accurate.
Those are the important stories, to the best of my limited knowledge, of today. Additional reports will be added in later posts, if possible.
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