Patterico’s Pontifications

11/27/2004

New York Times/CBS Poll Misleads Voters

Filed under: Media Bias — Patterico @ 11:10 pm

Even though I see this kind of thing time and time again, it never fails to irritate me.

A recent

6 Comments

  1. Since when does truth matter to MSM? Truth is for the philosophers and theologians. They are newsmen. News is what they said it is.

    Comment by BigFire — 11/28/2004 @ 7:18 am

  2. Overturning Roe? Not as good an idea as you might think
    Patterico correctly points out that, should a Bush-appointed Supreme Court majority overturn Roe (and Casey), it would not automatically make abortion illegal. What it would do is toss the issue back to the states, or, arguably*, to Congress. I think…

    Trackback by The Interocitor — 11/28/2004 @ 10:35 am

  3. Overturning Roe? Not as good an idea as you might think
    Patterico correctly points out that, should a Bush-appointed Supreme Court majority overturn Roe (and Casey), it would not automatically make abortion illegal. What it would do is toss the issue back to the states, or, arguably*, to Congress. I think…

    Trackback by The Interocitor — 11/28/2004 @ 10:39 am

  4. Philosophers, anyway. Theologians are like journalists in this regard, except that they don’t pretend to be unbiased.

    Comment by Xrlq — 11/28/2004 @ 10:46 am

  5. Philosophers only care about truth in the abstract.

    Consider the Philosopher-Kings (ok, 7 Kings, 2 Queens) on the High Court. You can’t convince me it’s all epistomology.

    Comment by Kevin Murphy — 11/28/2004 @ 11:48 pm

  6. You think that poll’s bad? Look at the question AP was floating in early November:

    “The 1973 Supreme Court ruling called Roe. v Wade made abortion in the first three months of pregnancy legal. Do you think President Bush should nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold the Roe v. Wade decision or nominate Supreme Court justices who would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision?”

    First three months? Try first six (for no reason at all) or nine (for almost any reason).

    Technically, though, reversing Roe v Wade would make abortion immediately illegal in whichever state brought the suit. I don’t think the NYT poll results would have come out much differently if the question were changed to “do you think he is likely to appoint Justices who will vote to keep abortion legal OR Justices who will vote to permit states to make abortion against the law?”

    Comment by The Raving Atheist — 12/1/2004 @ 10:58 am

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