competing messages

The sheer number of political groups and competing messages make it hard for Iraqis to distinguish one party from another.

Competing messages by the news media, politicians, watchdog groups and medical officials continue to make the public uneasy.

The problem is there are competing messages.

The weakness is you've got competing religious leaders putting competing messages out there."

The parties are honing competing messages that they will try to drive home over the coming months should Republicans prevail in thwarting the filibusters.

Campaigns start with competing messages.

The wiser course is to rely on a basic strategy which frames the interplay of competing messages clearly and shows a path to victory.

"We've never had a lot of competing messages in a presidential primary before, so you haven't had that presidential clutter."

One obstacle is that there are now so many competing messages from so many sources saying so many things.

The election will also hinge on how well they and their Democratic opponents get their competing messages to the voters in the closing hours of the campaign.

The dueling comments by Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton were among the many competing messages today as the Million Mom March approached.

If we have competing messages, different messengers and money being split into different pots, we will not be the cohesive party we need to be to achieve victory."

Furthermore, as the number of competing messages of identity in the Market for Loyalties approaches infinity, the presence of any new message of identity should have infinitesimal effect.

President Bush delivered two competing messages to Americans today as he encouraged them to go to ballgames and get on airplanes but at the same time declared that the country was at risk.

The competing messages have raised debate among parents of the war dead, who appear as divided as the rest of the nation in their opinions of Ms. Sheehan and her quest.

"In a day in which there are so many competing messages, these speeches may even be more important," says Professor Stephen E. Lucas, who teaches communication arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

In that sense, what United for Peace and Justice organizers might regard as government regulation of free speech by the police could also be seen as counter-programming by the city - an attempt to deliver competing messages to a mass audience.

B8 A Call for Vigilance DUAL MESSAGES - Delivering two competing messages to Americans, President Bush exhorted them to go about their lives while cautioning them that the country remained at risk.

But according to Kurt D. Squire, an assistant professor of educational communication and technology at the University of Wisconsin, the use of such games is growing exponentially as more organizations see interactive games as a way to capture and hold the attention of people bombarded with numerous competing messages.

The competing messages, which spilled into the streets and up to the steps of the Supreme Court, came as the latest New York Times/CBS News poll showed that half of those surveyed expect Mr. Bush to appoint justices to the Supreme Court "who will vote to make abortion against the law."