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[Mary Ann Parker]

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Mary Ann Parker
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Most in Military Back Bush, But ABC and
CBS Avoid that Reality
10:20am EST, Tuesday November 2, 2004
Though it's illegal to poll the military about their voting choices, a National Annenberg Election Survey found that when those in the active duty military were "asked whom they would trust more to handle the responsibility of commander-in-chief, 69 percent...preferred Bush to 24 percent for Kerry" while 69 percent had a favorable view of Bush compared to just 29 percent for Kerry. But on Monday night, CBS and ABC managed to avoid conveying that presidential preference in stories on Marines in Iraq preparing for an assault on Fallujah. CBS's Kimberly Dozier asserted that "most" of the Marines "didn't even know Election Day was almost here." A Lance Corporal declared: "I really don't have any favorites right now. They both got their pluses and their minuses."
ABC's Jim Sciutto, however, found the Marines very aware of the election with "many" having "voted three weeks ago" by absentee ballot. Sciutto featured a political comment from one Marine who echoed Ralph Nader: "I hope that the people try to make the decision on who to vote for take into consideration that this conflict needs to end. And it needs to end now."
The Marines may be prohibited from expressing a candidate preference, but that shouldn't have stopped ABC or CBS from informing viewers of the known skew toward Bush.

Rest of story @

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20041102.asp#2