{"id":26848,"date":"2011-10-05T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2011-10-05T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:58:27","slug":"aps-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26848","title":{"rendered":"AP’s bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article at Stars & Stripes<\/a> from an AP newswire story about a Pew Poll which if you bother to read says this about the troops they polled;<\/p>\n

The poll results presented by the Pew Research Center portray post-9\/11 veterans as proud of their work, scarred by warfare and convinced that the American public has little understanding of the problems that wartime service has created for military members and their families.<\/p>\n

The survey also showed that post-9\/11 veterans are more likely than Americans as a whole to call themselves Republicans and to disapprove of President Barack Obama’s performance as commander in chief. They also are more likely than earlier generations of veterans to have no religious affiliation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what is their headline? This;<\/p>\n

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Because it’s more important that we know that less than a third of the veterans of this war think it was a waste than it is to know that the majority are more satisfied with the job they did than most Americans.I also wonder what the job descriptions of those 1\/3 were. Did they spend their tours playng video games or did they spend their tours patching up the wounded in operating rooms or kicking down real doors prying the bad guys oout of their liars?<\/p>\n

AP doesn’t mention that 96% of the respondents were proud of their service<\/a>, or that 93% says the experience matured them or that 90% said that they gained self-confidence from their service.<\/p>\n

And I guess this part wasn’t worth a mention<\/a> either;<\/p>\n

Patriotic sentiment runs high among post-9\/11 veterans. Six-in-ten (61%) consider themselves more patriotic than most other people in the country. Just 37% of Americans overall say the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that one third who says it was all a waste is more newsworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an article at Stars & Stripes from an AP newswire story about a Pew Poll … AP’s bias<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}