[Bismarck]

Whatever it takes to piss off Der Spiegel has my blessing.

[Otto Krueger]

You preview and preview and preview, and .... Antepenultimate paragraph should read:

The "attack" of the Freepers on the Spiegel-Online vote has, without exagerrating it, news value. If it were just this one case of one Vote, that news value would be limited. But in the case of the Freepers, it's about an organized group that engages in a massive undertaking, whereever they can, to manipulate "expressions of public opinion" like Votes.

[philetus]

OK. Now Der Spiegel is doing a poll on whether online polls are accurate.
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http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,289701,00.html

Votes in the on-line journalism: Yes or no?
Votes are with Machern and readers like. In addition, they are susceptible to falsifications. Should a journalistic offer use the means of the Votes or not?



Yes: It belongs to the attractions of the InterNet for Medienmacher and readers that such communication forms are possible. Votes are "part OF the fun". One must make clear that they are not representative

No: Votes obtain the impression of respectable opinions, are however falsification-endangered. They do not have to look for anything in journalistic offers


Undecided, no opinion

[Eala]

Whatever it takes to piss off Der Spiegel has my blessing.

Der Spiegel should, um, look in the mirror.

[Charles Henrickson]

Help to drive the German left one into the insanity.

[TonyM]

Hey Der Spiegel. Do a poll on which country has the highest unemployment. By the way, I spent 4 years and one month in your country. You people suck, but you do brew and darn good beer though.

[freekitty]

My goodness, how can we freep it; if we can't read it?