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I've got no beef with the spirit of your complaints, but; "There's far too many variables to say that a sampling represents a country of millions" isn't fair at all. Sampling works. (Now, if you want to claim that polls often do not select the proper samples, you're making an entirely different argument; but if we're talking about specifics we really ought to have some specific examples to talk about.)
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Hmmm...I just cant accept a poll (or sampling) without at least knowing the criteia used (numbers of people polled, areas used, times called etc.). Or the motivations of those doing the polling. (after all, "Americans favor restricting Muslim Rights" is going to sell more papers than "Americans favor equal rights")
I thought about this some today as I read the local paper (The Sun Sentinel). I think the overall integrity of the media (newspapers in particular) has been on the decline -considerably- in recent years.
We're probably only a decade or less from newspapers (or their reportrs) fabricating major stories on a regular basis in an attempt o scoop their compitition.
I think there's a real resistance to investigate what the media reports....and no real consequences for those caught with fabricated stories (indivuals are ruined, but there's no real punishment for the company that allowed it to happen).
I wonder if it wont degenerate back to the warmongering for headlines of the Spainish-American War.
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"We're probably only a decade or less from newspapers (or their reportrs) fabricating major stories on a regular basis in an attempt o scoop their compitition."
Not that they really have to, when the White House does it for them.
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C'mon...I expect a trained reporter to come up with more plausable lies than the White House.
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Actually, I was referring to that thing where the WH paid an advertising agency to record fake news reports, which they then gave to networks to air during their news broadcasts.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: And then there was that expos� where they revealed that John Kerry is suffering from Minbari War Syndrome. . .
Does that mean John Edwards is Lorien? If he's what's keeping Kerry alive, he's not doing a very good job.
I can easly see Maria Hines-Kerry as Delinn (neither seems to get Earth humor very much).
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I was enjoying some of the more original insults on that side ("You are drippings from the Devil's own penis" is one I plan to use daily), but he's lost some of my respect with "his grinning kids look slutty & gay!" That's just playground level, that is.
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