http://www.sundriesshack.com/2008/10/30/whats-the-deal-with-all-the-polls/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sundriesshack.com/2008/10/30/whats-the-deal-with-all-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-671991 Cheesestick Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:05:14 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=6386#comment-671991 If they spent half as much time giving real news, correcting errors & reporting facts as they do reporting on meaningless polls...wouldn't it then be amazing to find out what the public really believes? I mean, if they know that a certain story is false, rather than poll people to ask them if they think X is true and then report that 60% believe X is true...wouldn't it be smarter to devote the time to correcting the story? That's what they'd do if the wanted people to know the truth & leave how they act on it up to the individual. If they spent half as much time giving real news, correcting errors & reporting facts as they do reporting on meaningless polls…wouldn't it then be amazing to find out what the public really believes? I mean, if they know that a certain story is false, rather than poll people to ask them if they think X is true and then report that 60% believe X is true…wouldn't it be smarter to devote the time to correcting the story? That's what they'd do if the wanted people to know the truth & leave how they act on it up to the individual.

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