--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...> wrote: > > What I've found amusing about this article and the > response to it is, why is a European news paper > reporting a million+ demonstrating against Barak
(Barack) > Obama and his policies? Apparently the original "up to 2 million" figure in the Daily Mail came from a Democratic spokesperson who gave the paper that estimate *before* the rally, as a prediction, thinking it would be bad PR if he predicted fewer than actually turned out, so he gave the *highest* estimate he thought was conceivable. That way, however many people there were, since he'd said "up to," he wouldn't be wrong. The Daily Mail has now changed its headline and story to "up to 1 million," realizing that 2 million was *way* too high, but not wanting to report the piddling 70,000 D.C. Fire Department estimate. Again, if it says "up to 1 million," it can't be wrong. > Aren't they on the same page as most of the American > media? Why didn't a European news paper *down play* > the demonstration in Washington DC to shore up public > opinion of the American president? You mean, downplaying it the way the NY Times did, making it the lead story on the front page on Sunday? <snicker> Actually, the Daily Mail's editor is a conservative libertarian who is notorious for making the paper reflect his views. Of course, the Daily Mail isn't the U.K.'s only conservative-leaning newspaper, and certainly not the only one in Europe.
