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I haven't had so much fun watching and reading the news in quite some time as this past week.
Dont they put polls online to get opinions? Is not a Freepers opinion worth getting?
We have all known for years that the way to get the answer you want in a poll is to word it correctly or to have that poll in a place where the answers will suit you. When you go online with a poll you ask the opinions of the world we who come to Free Republic are a part of that world.
From the essay: "Free Republic and the New Media":
...From our makeup, we are Americans: Conservative Americans. Americans united in one common goal: We won’t stop till the mission is complete. For we are the new media. We are the new truth in America. We are the amateurs that have rocked the status quo. These merry bands of amateurs, known as Freepers, have shown their expertise at exposing the truth. This forum called Free Republic will supercede the admonishment of the liberal media and conquer all those that oppose us. After all, we are the best in the world. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Free Republic is made up of some of the finest minds I’ll ever know.” And for that, I am forever grateful for their expertise. I am forever grateful for this new media.
Why don't they do a Dan Rather? There's no law of physics that says that the published results of an on-line poll have to reflect the actual votes cast (kinda like a Chicago Democratic precinct.) Determine the results first, let people pretend to vote and publish the facts that you "know" to be true, despite any evidence.
Po-or Babies!
...got their feelings hurt, did they? Welcome to the real world, jugheads.
One person, one vote. What's the problem? Pure democracy at its finest.
"That's what the Free Republic Web site calls it when its fans jam a poll to mess up the results."
We FREEP online polls to show how worthless they are. If there's anything disingenuous, its using unscientific polling and then complaining when their flaws are exposed.
Leftist reporters are so stupid. Probably double majored in Femininst Theory and Environmentalism.
This is RICH.
I looked, but didn't see a new poll to FReep.
LOL-LOL-LOL!
Hey, it's what we do. Offer to pass out free beer at the Walmart and we will be there, too.
Monterey--They make a pretty good cheese.
FReeping: The perfect antidote to DUmbing down.
Kewl! I guess it would have been nice if they would have put in a link to FreeRepublic, but all in all a nice article about us.
Inverse Corrolary...had the DU mobilized and the poll been "DUped", the results would have been fair and accurate.
Or:
We didn't get the numbers we wanted so we'll blame it on the Freepers.
..or on the VRC.
..or George Bush.
Anything but admit that they might have actually gotten acurate numbers (could happen!) and they are just having trouble dealing with.. THE TRUTH!!!
Whine whine whine.
---The results haven't been tallied because the poll was hijacked.---
How do we know the poll was "hijacked" if they don't tally the results? Are they trying to pull a Rather on us?
Professor Toro, I wrote that the Herald is a "small local left wing Northern California newspaper." Let's decontruct that statement ok.
small: every day I trudge out and pick up the Herald, San Jose Mercury News and Wall Street Journal. Without exception the Herald is the lightest load.
local: most of my neighbors get the Herald. Most of them also take the Mercury News or the San Francisco Chronicle. People in San Jose and San Francisco are not taking the Herald.
Many of us jokingly refer to the Herald as "Mercury News Lite" as a goodly percentage of Mercury News articles show up in the Herald 2-3 days later - trimmed for size. Knight Ridder must save a lot of money on editorial staff at the Herald by running all thise editorials from their other papers.
Yes, you are the epitome of local. Mostly good for movie schedules now that L. M. Boyd has retired. In fact, if it weren't for John Pisto on Wednesdays I'd drop it.
Left wing: well if you compare yourselves to Coast Weekly you're the ghost of Joe McCarthy but on an absolute scale you are totally left-wing, liberal, socialist, whatever term you want. I don't blame you, that's you're audience. Monterey gave Sam Farr 65% of the vote in the last election and he's as bad as they come. He has a UN flag prominently displayed behind his office desk in Washington and a US flag hidden somewhere in a corner. He can't even bring home the pork. Why did construction crews come down from Alaska to demolish old Army buildings a Fort Ord?
Northern California: aahhh. That's where I screwed up Professor. Folks here turn up their noses at "Northern California" After all, you're "Central Coast". Can't lump you in with San Jose can we? After all they only send the tourists.
So I retract my description in favor of the more accurate ""small local left wing California Central Coast newspaper."
So no other group does this to on-line polls? My guess is that it all evens out. But if they want a scientific result, then they should avoid these on-line entertainment polls. That's all they are.