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Small wonder that the public, which has been flooded with confusing news reports of who's in charge and who's a good guy, can't quite warm to its new head of state.
Reporting on television is now accompanied by so much partisan yapping disguised as analysis, and there is such a panic to get anything on the air that comes over the transom regardless of the source (like pictures of John Kerry in a silly hat), that the other networks have to feel uncomfortable about accusing anyone else of confusing news with opinion.
In times of surprising, confusing news, markets quickly become solipsistic: trading not on what each trader believes will happen in the real world but on what each trader guesses all the other traders are thinking.
LAST week, I spent most of an afternoon trying to get a cogent explanation of a confusing news release issued late on the Friday before New Year's by a mouthful of an agency called the United States Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Now comes the confusing news.
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Not bad for a game that ended in a tie, or at least that's how it ended according to one confused news anchor.
Some articles are meant to be written with bias; take care not to confuse news with reviews.
At the end of his lectures, he broke into rhyme: "I see a ruse / intentionally constructed to confuse the news / well, I've taken it upon myself to defuse the clues / so that you can choose / and to demonstrate the objectivity of the methods I use".
Many ordinary self-described "pro-life" Americans were confused by news of the seemingly incomprehensible, yet universally-held, position of groups that have, for decades, promoted themselves as opponents of abortion.
One day, Karen P. Hughes, the Bush campaign's communications director, stood on the edge of a busy downtown street -- looking as if she was about to be clipped by one of the cars zooming by -- for a hastily called, aurally confusing, aesthetically disastrous news conference.
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