Pew Trust says support for Bin Ladin, down

[Neil D]

[:"blue"]Pew Research Center is the same outfit that declares that TV news media are more conservative than liberal....And it claims to be non-partisen...Hmmmmmmmm, can we trust this information???? [/]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Support for

Osama bin Laden and suicide bombings have fallen sharply in much of the Muslim world, according to a multicountry poll released on Thursday.

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The survey by the Pew Research Center examined public opinion in six predominantly Muslim nations: Morocco, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Jordan and

Lebanon. It also examined views in nine North American and European countries as well as in India and China. In all, more than 17,000 people were questioned either by telephone of face-to-face.

"There's declining support for terrorism in the Muslim countries and support for Osama bin Laden is declining. There's also less support for suicide bombings," said Pew Center director Andrew Kohut.

"This is good news, but still there are substantial numbers who support bin Laden in some of these countries," he told a news conference.

In Morocco, 26 percent of the public now say they have a lot or some confidence in bin Laden, down from 49 percent in a similar poll two years ago.

In Lebanon, where both Muslims and Christians took part in the survey, only 2 percent expressed some confidence in the Saudi-born al Qaeda leader, down from 14 percent in 2003.

In Turkey, bin Laden's support has fallen to 7 percent from 15 percent in the past two years. In Indonesia, it has dropped to 35 percent from 58 percent.

However, in Jordan, confidence in bin Laden, who took responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and many other attacks, rose to 60 percent from 55 percent. In Pakistan, it went to 51 percent from 45 percent.

A similar picture emerged when respondents were asked whether suicide bombings were justifiable. In Morocco, 13 percent said they often or sometimes could be justified, down from 40 percent in 2004.

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[Dr. Shane]

Well, except for FOXNews, the news media is far from being more conservative than liberal. Do you have a link where Pew Research makes that claim?

I heard this same story on ABC news today. It sounds like US is making progress in the war on terror. That is good news.

[Neil D]

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Shane said:

Do you have a link where Pew Research makes that claim?

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I am sorry, Shane, but as you have said so many times before, you don't read computer texts that, in this case, would be 42 pages long. So, why should I give you the link to this?

But for everyone else, here is the link. It is in PDF format, though, so unless you have Acrobat Reader, you might not be able to read it.

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Well, except for FOXNews, the news media is far from being more conservative than liberal.

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According to Pew Research, you would be scientifically wrong. But that is the Pew Research people for you....Totally off base...So, uh, ahem, tell me, why would you want the link to the Pew Research if they are such a partisan group that support the claims of the liberals, that the news media as a whole is very conservative?

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I heard this same story on ABC news today. It sounds like US is making progress in the war on terror. That is good news.

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I figured you would like some good news from the 'other camp' confirming your reports.

[Dr. Shane]

The link I was looking for is the one where Pew Research claims that the mainstream media is conservative. Actually, most of what I have seen is that the Pew Research does polls and reports on what people are thinking. They report things like more Republicans tend to believe the media is bias than Democrats.

FOXNews is accused of having a conservative bias because they give conservatives a voice. However they also gives liberals a voice. They try to get both sides airtime. Other networks are still trying or pretending to be objectionable. To me, FOXNews seems to have a little conservative bias but it is hard to tell because no other network is doing what they are - giving both sides a voice. There are groups that keep track of news stories for balance. For example ABC reports more negative news on Bush than CBS and CBS reports more negative news on Bush than NBC. Yet none of these three networks are trying to be fair and balanced. They are trying to be objective.