More Media Examples - Update

The Globe and Mail is one of the most read newspapers in Canada. Every now and then, Globe and Mail has new on line poll. This time the issue is the priorities for the federal government of Canada in terms of allocationg money to different areas of spending. These days, as before, spending money on issues such as health care and affordable housing are of the most talked issues in Canada. I should also mention that spending money on the military has become a topic that atracts many people as well.

It is inetersting that the Globe (Which has improved in last few years to be a more balanced paper in Canada), ignores the main issues and its poll, only give two options to its readers to choose from:
1- Arts and Culture and
2- Military

This is the exact wording of the poll:
Globe Poll
The federal government should spend more money on
Arts and culture
The military

As I expected, the result favours spending on the Military. But is this really what Canadians want? If other options were available to choose from, the result, I beleive, would be completely different.

I don't know how to justify this. Only thing that crosses my mind is that this is another way of manipulition of the issues important to people.

What do you think?
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Also, I came across a report on Toronto Star (The most read Canadian newspaper). It is quoted from Associated Press and the title is Israel digs in on withdrawals after militant attack. The report starts with This:
"JERUSALEM — Israel's defence minister today rejected any further troop withdrawals from West Bank towns until the Palestinians act against militants after an ambush that wounded four Israelis."
Of course, Palestinians should be blamed for this stoppage on the Israeli withdrawals from West Bank towns. Right?

But what the Star does not report is this .

"Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead four Palestinians in the past twenty four hours, two of them in the West Bank and two others in the Gaza Strip, in a new Israeli escalation that threatens to put an end to the declared hudna, or temporary truce, announced by Palestinian factions more than a month ago."

All the blame has to be placed on Palestinians; What is new? And Israeli angels have done nothing wrong.

The depth of the unfair reporting is that this is published on one of the most balanced papers in Canada and perhaps North America. Imagine how the un-balanced ones are.