, a Fox News executive sent a memo to staff Tuesday afternoon reminding them such polls should not be cited as though they were scientifically sound.
Awesome! Since weāre so concerned about whatās āscientifically soundā, Iāll look forward to the memo on climate change any day now.
Fox, pretending they have standards. That is rich.
Fox news did a quickie pollāāDo you believe us?ā
68% said no, so Fox decided to stop using quickie polls.
Comentators, you say, not journalists? Well, perhaps they should refrain from commenting on national tv when they havenāt got a clue. Well, yes, yes, I do realize that would mean some of them would have to be continually silent. I donāt see that as a bad thing, really.
Duly noted the flinging of pooh from between their cage walls is still permitted.*
*The Eric Bolling contract clause has proven difficult to amend.
Trump and Sheen - both #WINNING
Letās see, Iāll have the large meatball sub with extra cheese, and a Cokeāno, make it a Diet Coke, because Iām watching my weight.
IKR: āour editorial standardsā!!!
Gingrich also was published on Faux News yesterday with an opinion article citing them all.
āAnother problem ā we know some campaigns/groups of supporters encourage people to vote in online polls and flood the results,ā Blanton wrote. āThese quickie click items do not meet our editorial standards.ā
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAā¦he said Faux News has editorial standardsā¦HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Who is Fox trying to impress by pretending to have standards? I donāt get it, seriously. The point obviously is to shore up their own viewersā lack of enthusiasm. Iād think for them the ends justify the means, and citing silly on-line polls achieves that end. Itās not like external reality matters to their bottom line, itās all about nurturing hope among the faithful and getting the viewers to keep buying gold or maintaining whatever other grift these guys are running fulltime.
Nate Silver on Post-Debate Online Polls:
āIām a big fan of the Pravda.ru poll, but itās a little Trump-leaning. The raw numbers were 99-1 Trump, but our model adjusts it to 97-3.ā
Iāll take Eating Machines for $100 Alex.
Perhaps there is some hope over at Fox News. With Murdoch aging out, heās reportedly going to be passing control to his somewhat more reasonable son.
While there arenāt really people I trust over there, there are some reasonable people that work there. (Chris Wallace, Bret Baier, Shep Smith, Megyn Kelly (sometimes)).
You have to think they are embarrassed to be on the same network as Fox and Friends, the Five, Outnumbered, Hannity, and OāReilly.
With Ailes being forced out, and his good olā boy misogynistic culture being exposed, there could possibly be a reformation if influential people ask for it.
Ironically, it later turned out that that result was absolutely correct.
Hillary: āWell Donald I know you live in your own realityā
ā¦ a Fox News representative pointed out to Talking Points Memo that many of the hosts who cited the bogus polls are commentators, not journalists.
Isnāt this statement redundant? None of the Faux News hosts are journalists.
Fox knows that citing such polls just reinforces the bubble, which is fine until reality comes crashing into it, and then the dupes start wondering just how much they are being lied to.
isnāt sending a memo āstaffā reminding them about journalistic standards in reporting sort of like reminding them that the 8th or 9th commandment, depending on which source you use, like reminding them āThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbourā ?
Faux News ā we rig the results of online polls, you decide ā¦ unless you are our typical viewer (60+, white, male, red faced, white haired) and then you trust us like you always have.