THE POLLS—HERE WE GO AGAIN
The broadcast television media generally in conjunction with a newspaper have been issuing political poll results for years. When the newspaper and the broadcast network share the same political agenda, how can you believe the results they publish? We already know that any poll can be fixed by how questions are asked and the poll population. For instance, if 60% of the poll respondents are of party one, would you expect party two to be in the lead when the intent of the poll is to discourage party two voters from voting? Are we dealing with media propaganda instead of the truth?
Sadly, too many broadcast journalists report poll results like they are gospel. Are the journalists broadcasting poll results that have proven to be reliable or are they using polls that are biased? If the polls originators are known to be biased and the results are used anyway, this practice reflects on the broadcast network integrity. Consistent biased broadcast reports make the network become a propaganda network—not a news network. Maybe when the accuracy of the poll is reported (for instance, reported accuracy of plus or minus 3%), it is assumed that the viewer is aware of the poll originators political bias. The regular viewer might be aware of fixing possibilities, but not the uninformed voter who tunes in for the first time—and God knows we have millions of uniformed voters.
There has to be a better way to inform the uniformed voters of the dangers of basing their actions on poll results because they may be the ones who decide who becomes President and who is elected to serve—and I really mean serve—in the Congress of the United States of America.
