trish123: That was hilarious!
But in all fairness, with the exception of the loyalty to the President one at the end, the same could be done in any city the whole world over - lets face it, governments and the media dont exactly have a vested interest in getting the 'real' news out there - in fact, it would be an interesting experiment to run the same questions by people in the cities of the countries who actually take pride in getting facts out to the public, such as Norway.......
Brilliant Mkie
Trish - I am sceptical of your radical unproven conclusions -

BUT
I would have thought it would have already been in the syllbus as a genuine application to the wider recognition and even development of Social Sciences
Why not go for yer Masters and actually prove it - BUT - Before that
actually Do one off your own bat in Manchester for a day, base yours on similar questions asked of the random sample

of the American Public
and ghet a colleague record it all on Video camera, as I would love to see YOUR results

Mike