Exit pollsters to release election report to media

[Twist_U_Up]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050118/ts_usatoday/exitpollsterstoreleaseelectionreporttomedia

The surveys of voters as they left polling places led to widespread speculation on Election Day that Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) was sweeping President Bush (news - web sites) out of office. But whether voters will ever know what happened remains unclear.


Edie Emery, a spokeswoman for the six-member media consortium that paid for the exit polls, says representatives from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC and the Associated Press want to review the report before making any decisions about what to make public.


The behind-closed-doors delivery of the report could come as soon as today. Because the report's conclusions might not be made public, the report is unlikely to appease critics who say the six media companies have moved too slowly to release information collected in the exit polls and have said too little about possible problems with those surveys.


"It's amazing to me that there's even a possibility that the report won't be released to the public," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "There was a major national controversy involving the integrity of the news organizations and of the polling firms involved."

[Nothing Without Hope]

1. Here's hoping they decide to do the right thing n/t

[samfish]

2. Do the right thing?!

heh- do you honestly believe that after the way the media has handled the election, espoecially since November, they'll do the right thing NOW?

We've got to find a way to bring down corporate media without killing the essense of journalism. THATS the real challenge.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. There's a lot of pressure on them to release the polls.

If they do, I agree that it almost certainly won't be BECAUSE it's the morally right choice but because they fear the reaction to refusal more. Whether or not they do it from an ethical stance isn't relevant -- getting the numbers is. So I hope they do the right thing, for whatever reason they do it.

I agree -- the MSM has been doing a good job of obsoleting itself with its constant mindless propaganda and lies. You might enjoy a thread of anecdotal discussion on this subject at DU tonight:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2970623

Edited to add: Welcome to DU, Samfish!
:hi:

[WeHoldTheseTruths]

5. "Report" or not, we'd like to see the data.

I guess the way things stand now, that will come only by subpoena and after they have "spun" the subject to death.

[garybeck]

3. thanks for posting this nt

[zann725]

6. Now that they've had plenty of time to scrub 'em clean...

and it's too late to effect anything Inauguration-wise, it's kind of like Bush's last sadistic thumbing of his nose at Kerry and the Dem's, and the whole electoral system.

Nothing "compassionate" or "christian" about that. Not at all.