Showing posts with label Reuters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reuters. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Irresponsible journalism at work

The headline reads, McCain even with Obama, leads Clinton: Reuters poll.

The article reports on the latest poll release from Reuters/Zogby.

What the article doesn't say: In the four-way match-ups of Obama vs. McCain and Clinton vs. McCain, no where in the reporting is the percent of "Other/Not sure" mentioned.


Screen grabs from Zogby below

In the two-way match-ups, just try and find the cohort that's "Other/Not sure" at the Zogby link. At least the article designated the margin of error: 3.1% among likely voters and 4.3% among likely Democratic voters.

IOW, take the poll with a big shaker of salt.

Makes the headline and the report a wee bit misleading, doncha think? Now Reuters wouldn't have a bias, would it?



Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Image bias?

What is Reuters attempting to communicate with this photo series of the three presidential contenders?

REUTERS/Joshua Roberts


REUTERS/Tim Shaffer


REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

What emotions? What attributes? Who's depicted least to most favorable? Thoughts?