Friday, October 03, 2008

More of that media bias all in my head

Here's Noah Pollack on Contentions:

An astute commenter to a previous post notes something about CNN's "poll" of VP debate viewers that on the one hand is utterly predictable, given CNN's track record, yet is still appalling: CNN declares that its poll finds Biden the winner, but CNN never discloses any information about who participated in the poll. This would be like asking people whether they liked the Red Sox or the Yankees and not revealing what percentage of phone calls were made to Boston versus New York.
As you may (not) have noticed, I didn't trumpet Fox News' text-messaging poll declaring Sarah Palin the winner of the last debate, nor the Drudge Report instant poll, because the methodologies of these polls are in question. Thus, as you can see, my standards are well above those of CNN's. Advantage: Viking Pundit!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those of you who are perturbed by the scheming media should prefer this poignant cry for help from Rich Lowry, of the National Review (*):

"I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it."

(*not media)

Anonymous said...

This may be a shock to your system but National Review is a conservative outlet.

CNN pretends towards objectivity. Oh, how they pretend.