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...audience roughly reflects the nation's ideological breakdown of conservatives, moderates and liberals, according to a 2002 survey by the Pew Research Center. But many conservatives believe that the network remains the voice of the liberal elite. "There is a strong market for liberal voices, and it's being satisfied by NPR to a great degree," conservative media critic Brent Bozell said on an NPR talk show. Bruce Drake, 54, vice president of NPR News, acknowledges that if the Fox network's conservative TV and radio star Bill O'Reilly were given a regular slot on NPR, "I might have...
...upon the security--in this case, the security of the people." And yet while they are sensitive about acknowledging it, Bush's advisers are watching public sentiment carefully. A month ago, a senior official--after insisting on anonymity--ticked off polling data from the Washington Post, Fox News, the Pew Research Center, CBS, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek and TIME. "I could go on and on and on," he said impatiently. "The point remains the same. Large majorities of the American people continue to support the use of force to disarm Saddam Hussein...
...brought my then 25-year-old boyfriend home for Christmas, we went to church on the Christmas Eve, and looking around at the candle-lit sanctuary, he suddenly poked his index finger into my side. "Ow!" I stage-whispered. "What're you doing?" "Look," he said, pointing behind the pew to a man seated two rows ahead. "It's Mister Rogers!" His glee was unmistakable, and after the service, he did his best imitation of nonchalance, trying to get a better look. I'm pretty sure Mister Rogers caught on to the scrutiny, but he just kept smiling and shaking...
...between promise and implementation that's tricky. Certainly, if polls are an accurate guide, the Administration has not succeeded in convincing those it seeks to help of its good intentions. A recent poll for the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that public opinion about the U.S. in the Middle East and other Islamic countries was "overwhelmingly negative." In Jordan, 75% of respondents had a poor image of the U.S.; in both Pakistan and Egypt, 69%--and in each country more than 50% of those polled said they had a very unfavorable view of America...
Leaders like Bush, and Wilson before him, believe to their bones that American ideas are universal ones. Ordinary Americans find it impossible to think that their nation is selfish, or thoughtless, or arrogant. In the Pew survey, 75% of Americans said that the U.S. takes the interests of other countries into account when it makes international policy. (Only 44% of Britons think that, and compared with everyone else, Brits love Americans.) But these are dangerous illusions; when it comes to the imposition of the values of one nation on another, it matters not a whit how pure of heart...