polls and politics
Date Submitted: 08/22/2002 07:07:02
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 3 pages (828 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 3 pages (828 words)
Polls: and Politics
The Media’s Drive in Politics
The media is a major factor in politics. The media feeds the American public
Information on politics though newspapers, television, and radio. The media is especially crucial during an election year. Polls, campaigning, and the love-hate affair between the media and politicians change from day-to-day.
POLLS
A poll is a survey used by the media to measure public opinion on a certain issue, or to rate …
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…if it wasn’t for us there would be no democracy.” Peter Jennings ABC News 1964.
Leo Bogart, Polls and the Awareness of Public opinion,
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. 1995
Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Tom W. Rice Forecasting Elections,
Washington, DC: Quarterly press, 1992
Evans Witt and Sheldon Gawiser, A Guide to Public Opinion Polls
New York: Praeger, 1994.
October 1998, Glamour Magazine, “Do You Trust the Media” no By-line.
August 1998, Forum Magazine, “Politics, Polls And Poltergeist” Leo Bogart.
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