Word: opinionizing
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...Were you surprised by the public's negative opinion of the hostages? I wasn't surprised. There have been similar cases before, and the abductees were more often than not told they were causing problems. So I sensed we'd be treated the same way ... I'm being careful what I say, and I haven't received any hate mail yet. All I've got is a call from a woman in Chiba asking me to marry her daughter...
...world opinion so opposed to the actions taken against Hamas by the Israeli military? How would Americans respond to an organization that was hell-bent on eliminating the U.S. as a viable country? Hamas may provide social services for average Palestinians?who have gone without such help because of corruption in the Palestinian Authority?but for Israelis, Hamas is as bad as the Nazis were for Jews. The Palestinians just want to wipe us off the face of the earth. In my view, every possible initiative against Hamas, including execution, is acceptable. Mike Druttman Hod Hasharon, Israel...
...political burden and financial cost of sponsoring al-Jazeera. With an estimated 35 million viewers, the network is being imitated across the region. Al-Jazeera has angered Arab governments by giving airtime to rebel movements and freedom advocates and tackling taboo topics like polygamy and apostasy. And Arab opinion has been immeasurably influenced by al-Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But nothing has made al-Jazeera so famous as the journalistic hospitality it has extended to Osama bin Laden through the al-Qaeda leader's interviews and doomsday warnings...
...receiving end too, as Wal-Mart's critics harp about its low-wage jobs and sprawling stores. Scott has no apologies in stock for most of them. When the company does dumb things, it deserves the knocks, he says. But with 100 million patrons a week voting their opinion through their purchases, "we have to focus on the customer who does believe...
...haircut in the Czech Republic will cost $12.50 due to higher vat. Anticipating a hike, many consumers are returning to buying practices learned during earlier regimes. "It's a conditioned reflex going back to the communist times," says Adéla Seidlová, head of the Center for Public Opinion Research in Prague. "Everybody knows it's better to stock up than face uncertainty." And stocking up they are. Egged on by Russian television stations gleefully portraying imminent price increases as punishment for E.U. accession, Latvians stripped their store shelves bare of salt, buying more in a day than previously...