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How Politicians and the Media Misrepresent the Public

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Uploaded by on May 23, 2006

The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible interview, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used by the media to not just reflect what Americans think but instead to construct public opinion itself.

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  • hes my lecturer for!!!!!!!!!

  • nah its alle common sense

  • Untrustworthy. WHile it is likely true that the media shape the public's opinions, I have no reason to believe that the graphs and figues he cites (with no sources and no attributions) are true.

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