Blog for One

The following is the poll currently on cfcf.ca
Are you in favour of increased surveillance measures to protect against terrorism? (emphasis mine)
Current results:
yes 88.27%
no 11.73%
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This is a great example of media manipulation. I think the results would have skewed very differently if the question was simply “Are you in [...]

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http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
A thought provoking article by Paul Graham on how things get into the newspapers.
“Remember the exercises in critical reading you did in school, where you had to look at a piece of writing and step back and ask whether the author was telling the whole truth? If you really want to be a critical [...]

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According to this article on ZDNET
(http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39187965,00.htm)
Of course, these are well informed opinions, as we can see from the article…
“…However, more than one-third of respondents had never heard of blogs before participating in the survey, and only around 30 percent of participants had actually visited a blog themselves.”
What do you think?

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