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Posted at 7:29pm on Jun. 20, 2008 Out of Toilet Paper? Use Newsweek Polling Data!
By Ben Domenech
Have you heard? It's over! Barack Obama has a 15 point lead on John McCain! Game over man, game over! You might as well mock up the logo!
Oh, wait. Newsweek surveyed 1014 *adults*.
That's adults, not even Registered Voters, let alone Likely Voters. I wonder how many of them had even heard there was another candidate in the race?
Rasmussen's daily tracking poll questions roughly 3,000 Likely Voters - they've got it at 4 percentage points. USA Today/Gallup has it at 6 points; Fox has it at 4 points. Newsweek's poll isn't even in the Margin of Error for any of these other polls. (Edit: Actually, Gallup has it even closer.)
We're conservationists here, and that's a waste of good paper. Put it to use in your toilet instead.
Posted at 5:38pm on May 31, 2008 Newsweek reporters and editors flunk Journalism 101
By Soren Dayton
Newsweek's Mark Hosenball and his editors should get their journalism degrees revoked. Today, Hosenball published a story about John McCain, Phil Gramm, and UBS.
For weeks now, John McCain's presidential campaign has faced awkward questions about the outside activities of several top advisers. Add one more name to the list: former Texas senator Phil Gramm, McCain's longtime friend and one of his five campaign co-chairs. ... Gramm is not a paid McCain adviser, but his day job—vice chairman of a U.S. division of Zurich-based financial giant UBS—could pose new tests for a candidate who has promised high ethics standards and ditched advisers who failed to meet them.
Sounds like a big deal right? Well maybe. The big deal is that Hosenball was either so incompetent (I will not assume dishonest, which would be the other explanation) to not notice that the CEO and Chairman of UBS USA is a bundler for Barack Obama. According to Obama's website, Robert Wolf has promised to raise "Over $200,000" for the Obama campaign.
We hope that Newsweek does the decent thing and puts Hosenball and his editors on paid leave while they renew their journalism degrees.
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Posted at 11:01am on Oct. 23, 2007 The New Narrative
Oh those rascally Neocons...
By Neil Stevens
What do do you when you're a mainstream press reporter, and your narrative of doom and gloom in Iraq is made more laughable every day by General Petraeus and his new strategy? Well, you need a new narrative of course.
Via Greyhawk at The Mudville Gazette we just might be seeing the beginnings of that new narrative. Says Newsweek:
The Bush administration is starving for good news out of Iraq, and it may finally have some: new U.S. government statistics showing that violent attacks of all kinds are down to levels not seen since 2005. But until recently, the administration appears to have resisted acknowledging a key element of the new data, because it flies in the face of President George W. Bush's ongoing rhetorical confrontation with Iran's clerical regime.
Part of me wants to respond to this with a couple pictures of owls, one captioned ORLY? And another replying YARLY! But now, I will soldier on and give this a serious look.
Read On...
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