Let’s be honest…..the MSM has nothing going for them in the journalistic world of politics but polls…….without polls they have very little……even gossip takes a back seat to polls….
They use this to drive whatever agenda they have signed on to……matters not whether pro or con……it is their “spinach” that gives them the strength to report crap.
I read an excellent article about this phenom of American elections……
The media’s obsessive preoccupation with polls is a ritual that propels the laughable coverage of US elections.
You’d think that the 24/7 cable “news” networks could spare a few moments during this odious, interminable election for the millions of Americans who have to endure the kind of daily, grinding poverty that is decidedly at odds with the aspirational and largely mythical American “dream”.
You’d think these journalists might be able to pay at least a passing, if symbolic, nod to the fourth estate’s increasingly anachronistic clarion call: to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Source: US elections: What the polls won’t tell us – Al Jazeera English
Polls are used to make the agenda as they, the media, sees fit……in the election of 2012 the polls were proven wrong when they predicted that the race was dead even…..just as in yester-year……they are wrong today.
If you are a voter then please do NOT be swayed by the con job of the polls and the media…….do your own research and vote accordingly……
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
Americans should bring a Class Action Lawsuit against their media giants.
Will go nowhere when you have SCOTUS in the pockets of the elites…
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My biggest problem with polls is that they’re always geared towards land line phones because there’s no standard directory of cellphone numbers. Nearly half of US adults live in cellphone only households and polls that rely mainly on landlines tend to systematically exclude the views of people under 40, minorities and the poor.
I agree and I wrote about this back in 2012 when the polls were all important….
Polls are not to be trusted. EU referendum showed that. US election will confirm they are agenda driven.
Agreed…2012 polls were dead wrong and yet they put all importance on them in the media….
Exactly. The good old media 🙁
The best propaganda tool ever…..Goebbels would be proud….chuq
Good luck with the blog….chuq
Cheers. You too.