The Polls show, the Polls indicate! What a load of crap! It's not even August yet the media is creating news . Maybe the media always has created the news, not just reporting what is happening but creating what is happening. Let me clarify what I mean..
The Polls: a cross section of the US population is asked a few questions and then the pollsters present the answers showing what the US public thinks about the subject they were questioned about. Where is this cross section and how many people are asked questions? I see polls from different sources, WSJ, US News and World Report, Time, USA Today, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, Reuters and the list goes on. They all use a cross section of the US public. I wonder if the WSJ uses people who never read the WSJ and does the CBS poll ask NBC or CNN or Fox watchers? Where is this cross section? How many homeless people, how many bankrupted by medical bills or Katrina survivors, or ex GM or Chrysler employees or how many making less than $50k per year are included in this cross section?
Here in Minnesota we are still awaiting the result of the November 2008 Election of one of our US senators. Why don't we ask the pollsters to poll a cross section of Minnesota voters to see whether we get Norm back or have Al as a new face?
I fully understand that we are in trouble as a nation as a world, economically and politically. At home we have two huge problems that need our attention: the economy and health care costs.
The media constantly barrages us with the doom and gloom; always fast to point out what is wrong , to tell us how bad it is, how much worse it will get. They rarely offer hope. They rarely show the good that is still happening.
What we need is a rallying much like that which happened in WWII. We had a common enemy, we had a common goal, we pulled together. We also had leaders who were able to lead.
I believe that there is very little free press in the western world only in countries where there is a definite dictatorship is there a free press, it is underground and it is constantly fighting to tell the truth always looking out for the truth police!
Our media usually feeds us a steady stream of pap, something to keep our minds off what is really happening.
Who controls the media?
What is really happening?
Who is the cross section of the US population that makes up these Polls?
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