BOREV: WaPo Cites Biased Honduran Press Stats in Story About Biased Honduran Press

[magbana]

"WaPo Cites Biased Honduran Press Stats in Story About Biased Honduran Press

On Thursday the Washington Post ran a story about how Hondurans can't get accurate information about their country these days because the coup regime has shut down the media outlets that don't toe the party line. In the very same story, reporter Juan Forero cites results of a recent opinion poll indicating that Hondurans support the the coup:

According to results of a Gallup poll published here Thursday, 41 percent of Hondurans think the ouster was justified, with 28 opposed to it.

Sounds like quite a split, right? And with tons of undecideds. Curious! Forero chalks it up to the fact that Hondurans are only getting one side of the story. But, ridiculously, he seems to have plucked those numbers straight from those same biased media outlets, which were, of course, just making them up, because that's what they do, according this Juan Forero story I'm reading. As the Associated Press and the New York Times report, the poll results actually tell a different story:

And a new CID-Gallup poll showed the extent of the polarization there. According to a face-to-face survey of some 1,200 people, 46 percent of Hondurans disagreed with Mr. Zelaya's ouster and 41 percent said they approved of it.

Well the Post got the "41" right I guess. True Fact: "cognitive dissonance" is worth 78 points in Scrabble.

Tags:

* Honduras
* Juan Forero
* Polls
* Washington Post"
http://www.borev.net/2009/07/wapo_cites_biased_honduran_pre.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Last week I posted an article here which said not a huge number of people own landlines

in Honduras, and CAN'T be reached in phone polls, anyway, just as it is throug hout the Americas.

They also mentioned there's a VERY low number of citizens who have internet access.

Any poll taken which is NOT face to face would be wildly inaccurate, as they would be polling only the people who have enough money to have a phone at home.