Jeff Greenfield (lately anyway - IMHO) has done an incredibly good job with the majority of the analysis he's been giving.. :thumbsup:
This guy --->
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/greenfield.jeff.htmlFor example... Wolf asked him yesterday if he could try and decipher why some polls show Bush tied or slightly ahead in a few of the battleground states.
Greenfield =barked= at Wolf saying something to the effect of ..."Are the networks - us included - suffering from such short-term memory syndrome that we've all completely forget that in 2000, ALL of us had it wrong?"
"We sat here like fools updating every poll that rolled down the pike and what was our end result?" "The end result was that ALL of us were DEAD WRONG... pure bunk"
He added- "I don't care what your polls report today or how they change tomorrow. I look it at kind of like the Boston Red Sox when everyone wrote them off... when they were down by 3-0 and the Yankees had three runs to knock them out of the series. Yet look what happened"
"So what do we do? - We sit here day in and day out announcing ever-changing polls, and none of us really have a clue if they'll even be close as the polls finally close the night of November 2nd"
Jeff actually looks disgusted x( everytime someone asks him about the latest polls - because he said he thinks the media are obsessed with them.
If he had his way, there would probably be one monthly poll announced, but it was be a mathematical calculation of all of the polls combined. I doubt he'd bother with individual polls because the discrepancies in them IRK him! Not from the way he's sounded lately anyway.
I dunno... He seems to have such a different personality than Bill Schneider.
After he went on about how far off they were during the past presidential election, Wolf was like... "uh.. ok then.. uh... let's move on to something else"
Also, after the debates, Jeff was in complete disgust when he talked about the "spin room" and what happens in there as soon as the debates are over.
He thinks they're nothing more than a place to congregate and try to get on the national media to spout off hot-air and LIES like there's no tomorrow! He claims they're catering to the gullible.. but that if it were up to him, it would be one of the first things he'd get rid of.
Anyhoo.. ;) It's tough watching most of that crew (Aaron Brown is ok ;) ) .. But Jeff Greenfield sure seems to be one of the honest few there these days! :hug: