http://www.cheersandgears.com/index....dpost&p=444815

 

Quick easy way to email your representative and tell them you support the auto industry

http://www.capitolconnect.com/gmfact...e/default.aspx

 

With that national poll showing Americans strongly in favor of loans for the industry, I find it odd that the media is full of articles panning the idea.

 

The link in my original post was broken during maintenance at C&G.

Sorry to anyone who tried to see it earlier, the link is now working.

I think it speaks volumes about mass media spin vs. reality.

 

Its because our media is full of ****heads that have it out for the auto industry. Does anyone know why this is the case?

 

The media doesn't have it out for the auto industry. I have little faith in the media but i find it hard to believe that spinning the auto's in a positive light makes any sense.

Any public poll that shows broad support for a bail out just strengthens the fact that the public has no idea whats going on and that avoiding more economic hardship makes sense to individuals. It does make sense from that narrow view but in reality it falls the other way. It was the same way with a financial industry bailout. Majority has no idea whats going on or why that needed to be done.

The government will bail out the autos not because the people willed it or the experts of the country thought it was a good idea. The experts hate the idea, hence the media coverage. They will act based solely on politics and special interests. Current administration, incoming administration and congress. It's all the same.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27766792

 

Hmm.

The fact remains that the will of the people is on the side of making these loans. By ignoring that, the press is shirking its responsibility.

No spin required.

 

You you are joking, right? Surely you don't really think this "poll" is in any way representative of the American public as a whole? That it represents the "will of the people".

If any reputable national polling agencies does any polling on the subject I suspect you'll see a very different picture and in any case, do you really want the government making its decisions based on polls?

 

Why don't you tell us since it's your theory. I would love to see proof of this theory that is floating around the boards these days by some of you that the media has it out for the auto industry.


x 100

That's one laughing smilie for every person that participated in that poll. To sit there and say that one poll, conducted over a 2 day period of only 100 people somehow represents "the will of the people" would be even more comical if it wasn't so tragic that you both just clung to it because it feeds into your preconcieved notions without even looking at how that info was derived.

 

Actually it's 804 people, still not alot of people, but alot more than 100.

 

For some reason I had 100 in my head when typing, but you know what I mean.

 

"Where" in the country did these people who responded live I wonder and how connected or not connected to Detroit are they?

I guess I'm a bit skeptical of any poll commissioned by one of the Big 3.

There may indeed be a majority of people in the U.S. who want the Federal government to step in and rescue the Detroit Three (although I doubt it) but even so, I don't believe this "poll" begins to qualify as any sort of measure of that "will".

Actually, based on the various opinions expressed in these recent threads regarding the bailout, I'd suggest that there are plenty of us who, even with strong positive feelings about GM, have equally strong misgivings about the Fed's potential involvement in the Big 3.

 

That's because this poll is new.

Earlier polls, right up to the end of last week showed the public between lukewarm to set against helping the auto industry. Can't blame the media in that instance.

Lately, the public has been bombarded with what some of us have been saying for a month already: The fall of the US auto industry at this point in the economic crisis would set into motion events that could get us perilously close to a actual depression, let alone destroy the US economy for years to come.

Media reports I've seen lately (I'm an avid watcher of CNN & MSNBC & a chronic newpaper skimmer) seem to be strongly in favor of a rescue plan with the same demands that many of us here have mentioned.

 

I think the only poll that mattered was the election of a Democratic President and Congress who ran with the expectation to help the auto industry.... and any others for that matter.