{"id":1384,"date":"2009-08-11T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2009-08-11T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T22:20:02","slug":"liberal-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/11\/liberal-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Liberal Media (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen points out the contrast between the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_08\/019439.php\">coverage of two abortion-related polls<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In mid-May, Gallup released a poll that found 51% of Americans calling themselves &#8220;pro-life&#8221; and 42% &#8220;pro-choice.&#8221; It was the first time a majority of U.S. adults had identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking the question. Last week, however, Gallup released a follow-up poll showing the pro-life lead evaporating, dropping from nine points to one, 47% to 46%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first poll got tons of coverage, while the second was largely ignored:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, to review, Gallup results showing strong &#8220;pro-life&#8221; numbers are a huge story, even though the results were dubious. Gallup results showing weaker &#8220;pro-life&#8221; numbers are a non-story, even though the results made sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Our Liberal Media<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The pro-lifer numbers are higher<br \/>\nTouted journos, their keyboards afire.<br \/>\nSo why don&#8217;t they mention<br \/>\nThe numbers&#8217; descension?<br \/>\nSo much for our liberal choir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen points out the contrast between the coverage of two abortion-related polls: In mid-May, Gallup released a poll that found 51% of Americans calling themselves &#8220;pro-life&#8221; and 42% &#8220;pro-choice.&#8221; It was the first time a majority of U.S. adults had identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking the question. Last week, however, Gallup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121,153,26,154,6,7,3,90],"tags":[2823,838,839,835,836,275,840,837,834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}