NotTV: Today In Horrible Journalism

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Joe Hass

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Jun 7, 2020, 10:00:56 PM6/7/20
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I awoke this morning to a startling lead in the Wall Street Journal:

"Voters by a 2-to-1 margin are more troubled by the actions of police in the killing of George Floyd than by violence at some protests...according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll."

This was a helluva data point, and I wanted to learn more about it. So I read the article and looked for the link to the polling data to give me more information about this.


That link did not exist in the article.

It is 20-f---ing-20. If you are a news organization, and you publish a poll, to not publish the full results of the poll, complete with crosstabs, is journalistic malpractice.

I have, for the longest time, given the Journal my money because I truly believe that they are excellent reporters and (with the exception of their opinion section which is written by people who should not be listened to) I like to reward good journalism. Suffice to say Matt Murray got a warning letter today.

bermuda999

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Jun 8, 2020, 12:26:47 AM6/8/20
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