[lbo-talk] How the media covers the polls

[ira glazer]

Throughout today's Inside Politics, Judy Woodruff and company trumpeted 
the just-released Time Magazine poll showing Bush with an 11-point lead 
over Kerry.  She asked Mary Beth Cahill about it, sternly asking "Are 
you upset about this development, obviously Bush has a big bounce out of 
their convention," and she probably mentioned the poll about 6 times 
within the hour.

Well, right before the sign-off, they cut back to Woodruff, who 
obviously thought she was off camera.  And she's talking to someone 
(unseen), and she says this:

"She said there may be problems with that poll, there's another poll out 
today that shows them even... I don't know what it is."