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Poll is@chicago tribune( vote often!) |
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by Native Rock Star
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14 Mar 2002
Modified: 16 Mar 2002 |
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Online poll , vote , go back , vote, etc. |
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Vote once , Vote ofthttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-020313illiniwek.story?coll=chi%en! |
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Unfortunately..... |
by
JW
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15 Mar 2002
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....it looks like the proponents of the Chief are voting
often too. :( |
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yay! oh, yay! |
by who cares
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15 Mar 2002
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oh goody, let's all go cheat! yay for our side, our opinions are worth so much more than all those honest peoples' anyway, so what the heck. screw all that moral superiority stuff anyway, everybody knows by now that the way to bring about positive change is to lie, steal, burn, smash, etc. being right never got us anywhere anyway, all that stuff we got since the 50s for being right is just a tool of the man, so what the hell! go nuts! |
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missing the point |
by jwaters
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16 Mar 2002
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These polls are not set up to be fair or accurate. It's not as if the Tribune doesn't know that people can vote repeatedly and will honestly think that every vote represents a different, concerned individual coming to their website. These polls are set up to gather free "statistics" they can use in the future and, more importantly, to make people come to their website over and over to vote and check on the 'race.' It gets there audience more engaged and feeling like they are part of things, hence, more warm and fuzzy toward their little corporate media outlet. It's not like this technique is new. "News" programs on television have been using this technique for years and years. It keeps the view engaged and watching until the very, very end of the program when they will let you know who "won" the farcical contest.
Still, the votes could be seen as denoting interest - how much effort put into coming and voting on each side might be construed to show the "public opinion" - and that is exactly what the Chicago Tribune will do with the information, pretend it is consciencously gathered data representing 'fact' while they know full well how the voting worked. I'm not sure there is any point at all in participating in this poll, but if I feel incined to go and vote multiple times I am surely not going to feel I've cheated on anything and neither should anyone else. If it entertains you to go vote in this thing or you think it will make a difference, go do it to your heart is content. It may or may not be a waste of time, but calling it lieing? Cheating? Give it a rest. |
