Fox News Tells Hosts to Stop Citing Unscientific Polls Showing Trump Won Debate
Source: Mediaite
by Alex Griswold | 11:02 am, September 28th, 2016
In a memo Tuesday, Fox News vice president of public-opinion research Dana Blanton reminded the networks talent that online post-debates polls were unscientific and should not be cited in their reporting.
As most of the publications themselves clearly state, the sample obviously cant be representative of the electorate because they only reflect the views of those Internet users who have chosen to participate, said the memo, obtained by Business Insider. Blanton noted that campaigns and supporters often directed people towards such polls in order to skew the results.
News networks and other organizations go to great effort and rigor to conduct scientific polls for good reason, Blanton continued. They know quick vote items posted on the web are nonsense, not true measures of public opinion.
The memo comes amid a PR blitz by the Donald Trump campaign to reframe his Monday debate performance as a win. Online post-debate polls from websites like the Drudge Report showed Trump winning by wide margins, while scientific polls showed that voters thought Hillary Clinton trounced Trump.
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certainot
(9,090 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,786 posts)People saw and heard the debate.
"You can fool all of the people some of the time..."
The RW talk radio audience and the deplorables fit this part: "You can fool some of the people all of the time."
But the more they try to make it seem like Trump won, the more on balance they lose voters.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,786 posts)Trump is only the most obvious con they've fallen for. Hook line and sinker.
SpankMe
(2,937 posts)It'll motivate Hillary voters to get out and vote, and it'll make Trump voters complacent and possibly allow them to skip voting because they think it's "in the bag".
hibbing
(10,076 posts)He'll have to take that little thing out of his repertoire. Of course he has plenty of other half-truths and lies to replace it with.
Peace
HAB911
(8,811 posts)due to the Murdoch boys running things?!
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Who is involved with the Trump campaign. Maybe that's it. I have read somewhere, can't remember where though, that the sons would like to bring Fox news towards the center politically, rather than the far right where Ailes' leadership took it.
They knew Ailes was going far right for short term ratings gain. And he would be long gone when the ratings started to "die off". Leaving them with the mess to fix it.
Problem is, how do you move from hard right to center? It will have to be very gradual.
Blue Idaho
(4,988 posts)Is trying to cover its ass. This is more about plausible deniability than cleaning up it's act.
Botany
(70,289 posts)..... was going to win and then he lost in a landslide and all those people who lived in "the Fox
bubble" were gob smacked.
No doubt that Fox has internal polls and projections that show Trump losing in a landslide.
BumRushDaShow
(127,292 posts)Botany
(70,289 posts)I was in the belly of the beast in OH in 2004 and Rove/Blackwell/Connell stole it.
And what really pisses me of is that the media knows that it was stolen and they don't
say shit.
BTW Kelly's 2012 walk was staged.
BumRushDaShow
(127,292 posts)She actually admitted to that during the clip too - going on to further say that when they "rehearsed" the walk, she would lose audio in her earpiece at a specific spot in the corridor each time.
The insane thing about the 2004 debacle was the fact that Rove's IT guy who set that vote count diversion up, died in a small plane crash right when they started investigating the mess in 2008 I believe.
Botany
(70,289 posts)..... they had warned Connell and the Justice Dept. that his life was under threat
and that on 2 prior occasions Connell did not fly his small plane becuase he did
not think things seemed right.
BumRushDaShow
(127,292 posts)Osakagreg
(111 posts)"Fox News vice president of public-opinion research Dana Blanton reminded the networks talent that online post-debates polls were unscientific and should not be cited in their reporting."
Call it what you will!
central scrutinizer
(11,617 posts)Talent = whore
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)pandr32
(11,446 posts)Is there hope that the created wooden propaganda puppet wants to become a real boy?
Nitram
(22,671 posts)brooklynite
(93,847 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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meow2u3
(24,743 posts)Pigs have sprouted wings and were seen flying overhead and news just broke that a bear was spotted crapping in the cat's litterbox.
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Shadenfreude
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Science is all a liberal plot, you know.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)riversedge
(69,713 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)If "Trump TV" ever becomes reality, I wonder if FOX will become more sane as Trump pulls away their most nutty demographic?
Monk06
(7,675 posts)to spam the polls It allows you to block cookies so you don't have to keep rebooting to dump your cache
One of the reasons I noticed that online polls were so skewed, other than Freeper calls to spam them, is that Clinton won so obviously that Democratic supporters were too busy enjoying the victory.
They didn't want to bother playing the shit poll spamming game when the result was so obvious
ThoughtCriminal
(14,010 posts)So he'll keep doing the same thing.
Oh, pretty please, let's spend more time and get nasty about Miss Universe, Foundations and Bill Clinton.