{"id":485619,"date":"2010-03-29T17:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22069"},"modified":"2010-03-29T17:37:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:37:47","slug":"has-cbs-found-dumbest-idea-yet-for-an-online-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485619","title":{"rendered":"Has CBS found dumbest idea yet for an online poll?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cnet-image alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.i.com.com\/cnwk.1d\/i\/tim\/\/2010\/03\/29\/image6343969x_370x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" \/><em>Yeah, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20001346-503544.html\">vote here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pointedly ignoring <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/26\/memo-to-media-science-museums-homo-sapiens-enough-with-the-online-polls\/\">my plea<\/a> for an end to online polls, CBS has come up with perhaps the dumbest idea yet.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s use the least scientific, most easily manipulated choosing scheme invented since eeny-meeny-miny-moe to pick what major piece of legislation president Obama should pursue next.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.\u00a0 I can almost hear Walter Cronkite reading the results on the evening news&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-22069\"><\/span>In a piece titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20001346-503544.html\">With Health Care Done, What&#8217;s Next For Obama?<\/a>&#8221; CBS runs through the conventional wisdom on Obama&#8217;s agenda and then asks readers to vote on &#8220;What should be the Obama administration&#8217;s top priority for the rest of 2010?&#8221;\u00a0 And then urges readers to share the poll using Face Book and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The only news value I can see in this poll is that the onetime home of Edward R. Murrow is now trolling for page-views online.\u00a0 Perhaps this isn&#8217;t such a surprise from the network that <a title=\"Permanent Link to Abandoning all journalistic  standards, CBS libels Michael Mann based on a YouTube video \u2014 while  reporting his exoneration!\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/07\/abandoning-all-journalistic-standards-cbs-libels-michael-mann-based-on-a-youtube-video-while-reporting-his-exoneration\/\">libeled Michael Mann based on a YouTube video \u2014 while reporting his  exoneration!<\/a> What&#8217;s next, CBS touting their web <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/27\/wattsupwiththat-hype-anti-science-webstats-alexa-hits-technorati\/\">hits<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Until sanity returns to the major media outlets, all one can do is play along with their charade and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20001346-503544.html\">vote  here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, please vote here. Pointedly ignoring my plea for an end to online polls, CBS has come up with perhaps the dumbest idea yet. Let&#8217;s use the least scientific, most easily manipulated choosing scheme invented since eeny-meeny-miny-moe to pick what major piece of legislation president Obama should pursue next. Seriously.\u00a0 I can almost hear Walter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}