To: Jim Robinson
I love it. They miss the point somewhat though. It has always been my understanding that 'freeping a poll' wasn't an effort to deceive the public but is simply pointing out that on-line polls are meaningless.
We all know the media would like to poll a select sample (the leftist readers of der Spiegel for instance) and then use those numbers to write a story saying that 'X amount of people are for/against this/that'.
But if the sample is bogus (and if you're only polling communists about whom they believe to be the best President that would be a bogus sample) the whole poll is bogus.
By freeping the poll, we take away one of the tools of propaganda the media like to use.
The traditional media are dinosaurs. They don't like this new thing- the internet. They don't like it that there is a righteous sort of anarchy out there. Conservatives networked together by fiber optics, getting their message out and being able to react to a situation in a very short period of time. This is a threatening thing to the news media.
Thanks for posting this.
To: Prodigal Son
Yes, one of the tools the media likes to use
against us...
By freeping the poll, we take away one of the tools of propaganda the media like to use.
682 posted on
03/09/2004 9:03:34 PM PST by
GOPJ
(NFL Owners: Grown men don't watch hollywood peep shows with wives and children.)
To: Prodigal Son
It has always been my understanding that 'freeping a poll' wasn't an effort to deceive the public but is simply pointing out that on-line polls are meaningless... By freeping the poll, we take away one of the tools of propaganda the media like to use.
It also counters similar efforts by DU types.
693 posted on
03/10/2004 1:42:28 PM PST by
Mr. Silverback
(Pre-empt the third murder attempt-- Pray for Terry Schiavo!)
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