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Media Fraud
« on: June 17, 2017, 03:30:14 pm »
Media Fraud

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 and is filed under Blog, Issues
 
Let’s be clear about one thing up front. We’re big fans of Axios. We love the platform, the user interface, the “quick hit” nature of their news reporting.

However, we take issue with this article, Most Americans Oppose Trump’s Paris Deal Withdrawal.

Let’s start with the “Most” in the headline. If one digs a little deeper into the Washington Post poll (more on that rag later), one sees the poll was conducted among 527 adults. In a nation of over 300M, most of whom do not pay attention to the media or the religion of global warming, “Most” describing 527 is a bit of a stretch, especially given the widely shifting landscape of polling. If nothing else, 2016 proved that pollsters, like weatherman, are really giving us an educated guess based on methodology that is shifting due to the way people consume news and the way they are contacted.

Then there is the part about the Paris Deal as well.

What is the Paris Deal, you ask? According to Axios, the Paris Deal:
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