Some crappy reporting from NPR this evening.
I heard on NPR this evening (11/29/2012) that the UN voted to approve Palestine's bid to become a non-member observer state. NPR reported that the US and Israel voted against the resolution while France and Spain voted for it and Germany and Great Britain abstained. That was it!? Two for it, Two against it and Two abstaining. Now, that is technically true but it gives NPR's listeners the false sense that it was a close vote.
It wasn't close. The final vote was 138 to 9 with 41 abstentions. World powers Panama, Palau, Canada, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Czech Republic and Micronesia joined the US and Israel in voting against the resolution. That's 9 of 188 nations voting NO.
NPRs story made it sound like a close vote. Again, it wasn't. They should have reported the actual vote and asked why we are so alone on this issue.
tnb
No comments:
Post a Comment