January 19, 2003

Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls

Angie Schultz does a little Googling to uncover the agenda behind a polling group that claims to be unbaised, unlike all those corporate lapdog US hegemonical government stooge polls.

Side note: one of the things she found is a link to "the 25 most censored stories of 2001-2002." I read the article. Apparently now "censored" has come to mean "put on page two, because everyone wanted to read about that boring old World Trade Center fuss instead."

Update: Link to the "25 most censored" fixed.

Posted by Andrea Harris at January 19, 2003 12:30 AM
Comments

Psst! Andrea! You've got the Keith Richards link instead of the Most Censored.

That was the most googlicious post I've ever done. We hates it now. You're to be congratulated for reading that far down. Bleah.

Posted by: Angie Schultz at January 19, 2003 at 01:17 AM

Whoops -- will fix.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 19, 2003 at 09:40 AM

All fixed. Hey, I enjoyed reading it. That's more Googling than I've ever had the willpower to do.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 19, 2003 at 09:45 AM

I went to read the article but didn't finish. As soon as they start talking about wrapping oneself in the flag as if it were equated with raping children I stop being able to take them in any way seriously.

Posted by: Tom at January 19, 2003 at 12:26 PM

Thanks for fixing the double post too. I got googlitis innn mmyy inndex finnger nnow. It jjust wannnts to click annd click and click.

Posted by: Angie Schultz at January 19, 2003 at 02:13 PM

I noticed censorship has expanded now to includes stories that have been utterly discredited (Iraqi death tolls attributable to US interference), stories any idiot could have told them about decades ago (live horses in drug production), and stuff that is just too plain dull to give a flying frig about (Wal-Mart doesn't want to put up with unions/organized crime fronts? Go figure.)

Posted by: Eric Pobirs at January 19, 2003 at 09:43 PM

Damn, and this is a story I would have regaled in reading:

5. U.S. intentionally destroyed Iraq's water system

Posted by: Wallace at January 20, 2003 at 01:35 AM

Actually, there's only one censored story: "World media refuses to a propoganda arm of the left; Insists on sometimes reporting other, evil views and things non-leftists are interested in."

Yawn.

Posted by: Stephen M. St. Onge at January 23, 2003 at 03:20 AM