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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 11, 2019, 01:58:58 pm
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October 11, 2019
What makes Fox News's 'Trump impeachment' poll totally unreliable
By Steve McCann
Journalism and those claiming to be journalists in America have been not only increasingly and overtly partisan over the past 25 years, but also increasingly indolent. Far too many rely on the lunacy, vitriol, and rumor-mongering on social media as the primary source of many of their stories and to make assumptions as to what American society thinks on any particular issue. Another source of so-called "news" is generated by their ideological cohorts in the polling industry.
Polling in modern America has degenerated into a vehicle to create news and headlines and to shape public opinion on an issue or an individual.
Over the past few days, the lead on every cable news channel and the headline in virtually all newspapers is Fox News claiming in its exclusive poll that 51% of Americans now favor impeachment and removal of President Trump.
How did the Fox polling unit come up with this number?
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