"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If I see one more "news" story on Gov. Paterson's poll ratings, I'm going to puke. I understand that the media is addicted to polls in the same way boys are addicted to Mountain Dew or Red Bull. I understand that the technique of lazy editors and reporters treating polls as news stories instead of doing real work isn't going away any time soon. But it's pathetic how polls and horse race "analysis" seem to be suffocating actual journalism on stories and issues that actually matter to ordinary people. Aside from Paterson, his rival Andrew Cuomo and their staffs, what real people are truly affected by Paterson's 19 percent rating in the latest poll a year and a half before the election? Polls are basically part of the infotainment plague infecting the news media. They are a distraction. Sound and fury, signifying very little. It's nice to have a little dessert with your meal. But when dessert becomes your main course, then it becomes unhealthy...
1 comment:
Hear, hear
It reveals that to these types politics is just a big game.
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