"Younger Americans also expressed more confidence than older Americans in several other institutions tested, including Congress, the medical system, and the criminal justice system, suggesting younger Americans are more confident in institutions in general."

Young Americans and Canadians,lacking experience in everything,are simply naive and gullible.

More proof people shouldn't be allowed to vote until they're fifty. ;-)

ctv's favorite opening line when asking a question -- "some might say that --- "

Listening to CTV this AM a reporter was articulationg how the public felt about the illegal Tamil Tiger's boat entering Canada. He said something akin to "Most Canadians view their plight as a humanitarian issue" and Steven Harper is treating the refugees as a security issue. Hello when the fork did MSM get to articulate how Canadians feel about an issue? That's not news for christ sake that's an op-ed tarted up as news. Most Canadians wanted the ship escorted out of our waters, and do not consider them refugees. Oh well CTV reports the news through their liberal filter and ignores "REAL Canadians views".

Rose @ 5:11 PM, you are plain and simply correct.
In all polls most Canadians did not want that boatload of queue jumpers or God knows what they are to land on our shores.

"Some people claim
There's a woman to blame
But I know
It's my own damn fault".

Rose and Liz,

moi non plus!

Je ne veux pas que les maudites terroristes peut seek asylum in Canada. Screw them and the boat they sailed in on

Sort of a foolish poll - do males age 48 trust television? What about Fox News, if it's the only channel they watch?

Not enough "granularity" there to chew on, other than to make a few basic conclusions.

CBCpravda favourite opening line is
"Critics Say"

second is
"Liberals bash"

and the third would be
"Harper Regime"

just slightly ahead of
"Omar Khadr"

The problem with newspapers "nowadays" (I too hate that term) is shortage of staff. I recently attended a tour where a few of us had spent some time in the newspaper industry at it's peak.

Can you believe that many newspapers today actually have people in foreign countries doing the editing and graphics.

I actually worked in newspapers when the guys would often get to the scene of an accident before the cops and the ambulance, thanks to our FM scanners. They'd turn the story in to the desk, the girls would type everything up. I was the exception, I was an automotive writer, I hand wrote everything, the girls typed it for me. I did use an IMB "Selectric" at the end.

Today working in a newspaper is about learning new fangled compuiter programs, following an agenda and being part of a "team" that consists mostly of the biggest A-holes of that city. Freelance writng is out, andd news stories all follow a pre-determined "spin."

I can only speak for myself and some associates but for me and mine....distrust in the media set in 40 years back----when we coined the term "pinko-media" and meant it---for good and proper reason.....

"Critcs say..." is perhaps the most used against conservative govts, regardless of the issue. Example, you could have a provincal conservative gov't make a funding announcement of, oh I don't know, $500 million investment toward new MRI machines and reporters will invariably conclude with "critics say the money is not sufficient". You can take the same announcement by a Liberal gov't and, voila, it changes to "analysts say the funding will go a long way to easing the backlog"

Note that this change in phraseology occured frequently today: after a week of the media saying the "Harper gov't's" $2 million aid to Pakistan was not enough, today's $33 million announcement by Baird was discribed as "Canada has increased it's funding"... other generic discriptors such as "Ottawa" and "the feds" was also used.

They don't want "conservative" or "Harper" to be associated with a positive news story.

Useless! All of 'em!

This is basically how we got same sex marriage without a referendum.

The news was slanted towards what "proponents say" -- this amounts to a girl at a bar turning to her girlfriends and saying, "I guess I should go home with this guy, proponents say I won't be sorry."

Actually, it's usually "critics charge".

Not merely "say". They CHARGE!

Charge!

J'accuse!!!

And let's not forget the most pompous one of all:

"Experts say..."

It's one of the oldest propaganda techniques in the book. Centuries ago, there was a book written, a history of Richard III, attributed to Sir Thomas More. In fact, it was simply a publishing of a work originally written by John Morton, Archbishop of
Canterbury.

To say the least, it was a smear job, and the first time that Richard was accused of killing his nephews, and the first time that Richard is ever described as a hunchback. The book is riddled with "Men say...", and with no other evidence offered.

Was it effective? Well, Morton's work constitutes the basic propaganda line used to this day in high school history. It was important at the time to justify the Tudor overthrow of the last of the Plantagenet dynasty.

And who was John Morton? He was one of the last of the Beaufort family, for all you Wars of the Roses fans.

So take a hard look around you. A lot of what you know or think you know is based on this sort of "men say..." evidence. Even something as simple as high school history.

CTV is Liberal? The FAUX TV of the North?
Harper's last "press conference" was rigged so that Craig Oliver could pitch a couple of softball questions, in order to avoid tougher questions the other media wanted to ask about the census debacle.

As to the umbrellas covering the faces of the asians on the boat, was covering their faces due to fear that, if faces were recognized, it would destroy the "narrative" that they were actual Tamil Tigers?

Here is some bad news and some good news. This link is a diatribe by Eric Margolis about the wikileaks Afghanistan material. The second paragraph is a rant about the purpose of journalism which manages to omit reporting the news accurately and objectively. The good news is that he close by announcing this is his last column for the Sun newspapers.

http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2010/08/13/15017111.html