{"id":529,"date":"2006-10-20T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2006-10-20T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T14:28:16","slug":"media-bias-blatant-in-coverage-of-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Media Bias Blatant In Coverage Of Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, a poll came out announcing that the federal Liberals and federal Conservatives were neck and neck in the eyes of Canadian voters.\u00a0 The press coverage of this poll was in every newspaper and on every news station I turned on.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, Environics released a poll that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/erg.environics.net\/media_room\/default.asp?aID=611\">indicates the Tories are 9 points ahead of the Liberals<\/a> yet no one covered it.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I heard about this poll on Lowell Green&#8217;s show and was simply shocked that no one covered this poll in the press.\u00a0 Apparently this poll was over a three week period and the poll indicating a tie was over a two day period at the tail end of the Environics poll. I agree that two polls can have different results depending on the period of time and length of polling time, but for two polls so close together to have such different results is rare (albeit possible).<\/p>\n<p>My main beef is that the press chose to cover the one that that puts the Liberals in a better light and ignore the one that has the Tories a full 3 percentage points better off than on election day last January!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Environics Poll\" id=\"image528\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/environicspoll.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, a poll came out announcing that the federal Liberals and federal Conservatives were neck and neck in the eyes of Canadian voters.\u00a0 The press coverage of this poll was in every newspaper and on every news station I turned on. Two days ago, Environics released a poll that indicates the Tories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-msm-bias","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}