In correlation with class today, I decided to go online and find a pseudo poll on health care. Ironically, I did go to fox news and I found similar results to what the Jon Stewart clip was referring to (the one we watched in class). The title of the blog was "Should the White House Use Tax Dollars to Lobby for Healthcare Reform?" 98% (64,852) of those polled said no, 2% (1,116) said yes and <1% (161) said they were not sure.
Although the poll had a significant amount of people respond, there is no way to tell if the poll was representative to the population even though the site stated that it was not a scientific poll. Different people prefer different media outlets, mainly because of common opinions and views. Therefore, the findings of this poll may represent the common views of this media outlet, however, may not be represent the viewers of other outlets who did not get a chance to participate in the poll.
Here is a link to the poll.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/
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