I will not write a story about a poll unless my editor orders me to do so. I hate polls, but my liberal editors love them. A poll is simply manufactured news. Ask some people a bunch of questions and suddenly you have a news story.
I have written a few polls and surveys in my time, so I know how difficult it is to keep them unbiased. One must be extremely careful about how the questions are phrased, the order in which the questions are asked and who is asked the questions. Did you know that polling outfits don't survey people in the DC metro area? We inside-the-beltway types are considered too politically savvy. In other words, the first rule of polling seems to be, never ask questions of people who know what they're talking about.
Ann Coulter has an excellent column this week about polls -- excellent because it's exactly what I think.
Despite the fact that 70 percent of the public thinks Bush is doing a lousy job, when they had a chance to put someone else in the White House a mere 15 months ago, they decided to keep him.
There is, however, one poll taken by millions of Americans every day, year in, year out. Based on plummeting viewers, circulation numbers and ad rates, we can say with some certainty, the American people are beginning to loathe the liberal media.
PS: I didn't have to post that picture, I just did.
I will not write a story about a poll unless my editor orders me to do so. I hate polls, but my liberal editors love them. A poll is simply manufactured news. Ask some people a bunch of questions and suddenly you have a news story.
I have written a few polls and surveys in my time, so I know how difficult it is to keep them unbiased. One must be extremely careful about how the questions are phrased, the order in which the questions are asked and who is asked the questions. Did you know that polling outfits don't survey people in the DC metro area? We inside-the-beltway types are considered too politically savvy. In other words, the first rule of polling seems to be, never ask questions of people who know what they're talking about.
Ann Coulter has an excellent column this week about polls -- excellent because it's exactly what I think.
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I've been unable to upload images on various occasions recently on blogger, also--I wonder what you have to do to get that function to work? It seems to be sporadic, and is certainly annoying.
More on topic--I happen to be a trained journalist (long story) and was in the antique (newspaper game) for a short while several hundred years ago in the days of moveable type, including writing and circulation--are newspapers dying, Ranger? and more importantly, can you read upside down and backward? heh, heh. -Rick
I haven't read a newspaper in about six years, and I don't consider myself uninformed. A newspaper is just yesterday's news today. Coincidently, I stopped taking home papers about the same time I gave away my parrots. The liberal papers are really suffering. But papers like the Washington Times
are increasing circulation. So the decline of some papers can't all be blamed on the 24-hour news cycle. People are just fed up with the liberal bias. And now they have choices.
As for reading upside down and backwards, nope, I've always been a broadcast journalist, so that's one talent I haven't needed. But I once took an Evelyn Wood speed reading course, so I can go through 10 minutes of copy in 20 seconds.
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