| Monday, January 31, 2005 |
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U.S. students say press freedoms go too far.
A survey of 112,003 students finds that 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" of stories before publishing; 51% say they should be able to publish freely; 13% have no opinion.
Asked whether the press enjoys "too much freedom," not enough or about the right amount, 32% say "too much," and 37% say it has the right amount. Ten percent say it has too little. I don't know which is scarier. The 36% who feel we need government approval of the press, or the 13% who don't have an opinion.
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Boy, you gotta love USA Today, huh? Could that story be any less informational, or more alarmist? It'd be nice to know what the actual questions were; given a question like, "do you believe that the media needs government approval to report troop movements?" I would answer yes, and I am hardly a reactionary. Not that I have any trouble believing that people are idiots in the main, but it's really difficult to draw any useful conclusions based on this sort of crappy reporting...
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Boy, you gotta love USA Today, huh? Could that story be any less informational, or more alarmist? It'd be nice to know what the actual questions were; given a question like, "do you believe that the media needs government approval to report troop movements?" I would answer yes, and I am hardly a reactionary. Not that I have any trouble believing that people are idiots in the main, but it's really difficult to draw any useful conclusions based on this sort of crappy reporting...