In this eighth survey of the web, the WAWG index group average was down by 26 percent from April 2006. Of the fourteen items tracked, all 14 were down. The cumulative change for the index is still up 26 percent.
The downtrend for “scapegoats as a unifying cause†and “media control†dropped another 8 percent.
The biggest drop was 74 percent for “disdain and suppression of intellectuals”. This was followed by a 73 drop in “avid militarism,” and a 63 percent drop for “powerful patriotic nationalism.”
Andy Hailey