[kcvl]

The pouty Katie Couric delivered a homily on the polls to the handful that still worship her show. She ranted that 78 percent of American Catholics wanted the Church to be less conservative ("The Today Show," April 18, 2005). But as the Media Research Center pointed out, the only poll they were able "to locate with such a finding was an early April CNN-USA Today-Gallup survey of Catholics which found 78 percent said the next pope should "allow Catholics to use birth control."

When some so-called news reader or writer starts citing polls you might as well ignore them. That's not reporting anything close to news that's trying to make it.

[johnb838]

Any time you see "American Catholics" you have to be very careful because there is that bunch of nutjobs that call themselves that and they put out polls saying "78% of American Catholics" this and that to confuse the issues.