Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @12:44AM from the you're-blocking-the-view-of-the-big-game dept.

S1mmo+61 writes "Salon is analyzing a Time Magazine article today, a piece that essentially claims Americans do not care about the domestic spying. The analysis of the Time magazine piece (which is longer than the article itself) is interesting, if only as a quick history of domestic spying in the last eight years. 'Time claims that "nobody cares" about the Government's increased spying powers and that "polling consistently supports that conclusion." They don't cite a single poll because that assertion is blatantly false. Just this weekend, a new poll released by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University proves that exactly the opposite is true. That poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is "very secretive" has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%)'"

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Emotional much? by Orig_Club_Soda · 2008-03-18 07:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You have to read this article and consider demographics at the same time. Slashdot users are not typical or a majority. Babyboomers don't care and those who do not use the internet daily don't care. Republicans don't care (thats at least 50% of the nation.)

You guys get all riled up mostly because many of you are stealing media and dont want to get caught or limited.