Get a Clue
After a minor bit of research it turns out that there was nothing wrong with the New Hampshire polls, other than they were conducted before a large group of people made up their minds. The numbers for Obama and Edwards held, and the undecideds broke heavily for Clinton. When better than 15% of those polled are undecided, you don’t try to call a winner unless someone has a 51% approval rating.
The weather was unseasonably mild, and the turn out was, as should have been expected under those circumstances, much larger than normal, so the undecideds showed up and voted. I don’t doubt in the slightest that the media attacks on Clinton for the non-event of her getting “teary-eyed” made a number of people annoyed enough to vote for her.
The real polls that the media should be looking at are those on the favorability of certain groups or professions. For some time they have been showing that people don’t really like or trust the corporate media. The talking heads are really getting on people’s nerves, and their track record for accuracy is abysmal. Most people are aware that if they screwed up half as often as the pundits, they’d be fired.
A bit of advice: having two “experts” on your show, one “liberal” and one “conservative”, doesn’t advance the level of trust when both are equally wrong.
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See, I don’t think the talking heads are screwing up, I think they’re just representing the interests of their corporate masters.
I know they are doing what they are told, but they are paid enough to at least demonstrate a bit of competence at their propaganda. Good propaganda is not hard to create, and the best is at least entertaining.
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Well, they built their propaganda machine in a time before blogs. Now they’re scrambling for relevance.
The good propaganda is wrapped around a kernel of truth, facts that can’t be disputed which gives credence to the veil of lies. Gathering facts requires some work, and they can’t or won’t make the effort.
All they need are some historical romance wannabes to write their copies – my Mother claims the good ones actually do research about the period they use.
Yes, well it’s not worth the effort, really, since we’d just tear them apart anyhow.
Of course we will, but they know better than to target us because most of us are in the desirable demographics for their advertisers. It’s just show business, nothing important. 😈
Exactly, which is why they seem to be just phoning it in at this point. They really know it’s hopeless.
I should say, they still like getting their paychecks, though.
At this point it has become a job, not a profession, so they are faking their way to retirement.
Sounds about right.
We still have a few more myths to explode, though. It may take a few more years to get through it all. We’ve been living in a fictionalized environment for a long time.
It’s too bad we didn’t have better “writers”.
Last I heard… all the good writers were on strike! LMAO
Ahem… sorry. 😉
We still have a few more myths to explode, though. It may take a few more years to get through it all. We’ve been living in a fictionalized environment for a long time.
Sadly, I think you are right Michael. Perhaps more than a few…