Well now this is not some­thing new but you might be won­der­ing what Fox news is doing when they show a poll where just a few hun­dred peo­ple are con­tact­ed and then they want to tell you that the poll is accu­rate for every per­son in the USA…

Does that make sense?

No, it does not make sense but what it does do is col­or the news in a way that is child­ish in its method of psy­cho­log­i­cal inter­ven­tion.

It is real­ly insult­ing to think that you could take a poll and call say 400 peo­ple and then say, OK, this poll is indica­tive of 400 mil­lion peo­ple.

Sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly speak­ing it is laugh­able even per­haps crim­i­nal.

(if its not crim­i­nal it should be because what it attempt­ing to do is to pol­lute the news with lies)

Fox used to be more reli­able but now they seem to be just as cor­rupt and debased as all the oth­ers.

So on to the head­line, is it a fake poll?

It is pos­si­ble, because you just do not have enough infor­ma­tion to under­stand the method­ol­o­gy behind the result.

Do the media have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to state that these polls are sub­jec­tive and not objec­tive.

What kinds of questions did they ask?

When did they call?

At 1PM when most people are at work?

How many peo­ple did they call before they were able to get some­one to answer the phone?

4000 or 10,000 num­bers?

In what zip codes did they call?

10, 20, 50?

was it in all zip codes?

No, because they did not call enough peo­ple in the first place.

Did you know that to get a real­ly good polling you would need to get 50,000 peo­ple to answer the phone and get them to agree to answer sev­er­al ques­tions hon­est­ly.

But wait, there is more right, they can’t call cell phones for these polls and a lot of peo­ple do not have a land line at all.

Addi­tion­al­ly, most peo­ple that would answer the ques­tions dif­fer­ent­ly then what the polling agency wants will not stick with the call because they know what is hap­pen­ing.

Here is an exam­ple of a biased poll ques­tion.

“Call­ing Robot”

Would you agree that a pres­i­den­tial fig­ure or can­di­date should be a good role mod­el?   chose yes or no

If they choose yes they they are not for one par­tic­u­lar can­di­date right?

Wrong its sub­jec­tive and it does not define any stan­dard of data col­lec­tion.

The biggest prob­lem with a poll is that the per­son that paid for that poll and the ques­tions they ask and the time of day and the zip code and many more things all influ­ence what a poll will return.

They are sub­jec­tive and the news is pre­sent­ing them as if they are objec­tive and that is wrong and this is yes far too many ands ifs and butts.

When you sit down on nation­al TV and tell the lis­ten­ing audi­ence that you are about to tell them the results of a poll where just 400 peo­ple were con­tact­ed in ten zip codes all in heav­i­ly demo­c­ra­t­ic lean­ing coun­ties in a cer­tain demo­c­ra­t­ic por­tion of the USA then should not the report­ing news com­pa­ny have a duty to the peo­ple to tell it like it real­ly is instead of dis­tort­ing and hid­ing behind par­tial truth?

Since when did the hon­esty fac­tor reach such an all time low?

One thing seems clear the media and all their tak­ing head clowns and like­ly a fair few pro­duc­ers will be shocked at the turnout, you will hear things like no one could have ever thought there would be so many peo­ple out and look they are all wear­ing red T‑shirts, those are Trump T‑shirts aren’t they?

While anoth­er talk­ing head will say some­thing like “Now we don’t know that for sure”

This could be just a co-inci­dence after all this does not mean that all those peo­ple are real­ly vot­ing for Trump…

They will lie, cajole, joke, deny and delay until the bit­ter end when it becomes so obvi­ous even to those dement­ed pro­duc­ers that run Fox news and all the oth­er media out­lets, that all of the lies and all of the psy­cho­log­i­cal attacks and all the insan­i­ty that has become jour­nal­ism did not work.

They will scratch their heads in dis­may and say things like, ” I just don’t under­stand how this could have hap­pened”

They will hope for a close enough tal­ly where they might be able to have a recount.

But that is not going to hap­pen.

When this elec­tion is over there will be no doubt what the truth real­ly is…

Do you believe as a con­sumer who watch­es TV and the News that these “Info-tain­ment”  biased news agen­cies should pay a price for what they have been doing?

For what they have attempt­ed to do over the last 50 years?

Per­haps there should be a con­se­quence when a news agency attempts to sub­vert the will of the amer­i­can peo­ple.

More on that ques­tion lat­er.