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OK Tom is guilty of exageration from time to time.
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I stand by the quote reference immediately preceding your comments, but you obviously do have a basis for a preformed opinion with regards to Tom's overkill on the bias issue. I think the spike rate is pretty high but not 100%. Again, due the analysis I suggested if you want an objective analysis of how biased the news is. It's obvious to me it's biased based on the words chosen to tell more neutral stories (always trying to spin things as bad as possible), but I have no idea how biased overall because there is really no good reliable source for the good stories on what is being built and repaired. For a long time Iraqi opinion polls did not square with the negative view presented in news here nore did it square with the opinions of people I've talked to who have actually been there. Tom has supplied some broad measures which show improvements, but they don't have the local impact needed to really turn hearts and minds and I'm pretty sure the current level of violence is enough to negate any goodwill based on improvements in GDP and unemployment.

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