Posted on 09/21/2006 11:40:22 AM PDT by GMMAC
Just About the Dumbest Thing Ive Ever Read
smalldeadanimals.com
21 September 2006
In its attempt to sway, manipulate, and form world opinion to fit with editorial boards, the MSM now has a new tool: World Opinion Polls.
In case you missed that, Ill rephrase it. The MSM now conducts WORLD opinion polls so that we can be enlightened by knowing what the world thinks. The concept is so flawed that I wont insult the intelligence of readers here by even bothering to debunk it, but I will say this.
What does it say of news media editorial boards, when they actually commission worldwide polls and then publish them as if they are hard fact? Either these folks are truly thin between the ears, or so expanded in their delusions of grandeur that they believe their own muck.
Take a read of the latest World Poll from the BBC, pie charts and all, which by the way, only has a margin of error of between plus-or-minus 2.5% and 4%
got that, only 2.5%. BBC uses the poll to tell us what the world thinks of Iran and the nuclear showdown. As for me, Im off to read something more relevant, like a 1963 manual on tie-dying your T to match the daisy covered VW van.
Cheers!
Another Canadian blog well worth reading, particularly on native issues is
http://www.dustmybroom.com
Absolutely, as well. I get there via one of Kate's sidebar links.
Sounds like they are after a Darwin award.
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