(Fox News) Parade: Tom Cruise Poll Was Skewed

[underpants]

Now THAT'S journalism!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192197,00.html

Tuesday, April 18, 2006


Tom Cruise's fans seem to have put a lot of effort into skewing a Parade magazine poll in his favor.

Parade.com recently conducted an online poll asking readers whether they thought Cruise was responsible for his disastrous public relations year of couch-jumping, sonogram machine buying and psychiatry bashing, or if it was the media's fault. Eighty-four percent of respondents said the media was to blame for his tough year and that Cruise did not bring his image problems on himself.

But Parade magazine found these results "a little bit fishy" — and they were right.

"We did some investigating and found out that more than 14,000 (of the 18,000-plus votes) that came in were cast from only 10 computers," Parade publicist Alexis Collado wrote in a press release. "One computer was responsible for nearly 8,400 votes alone, all blaming the media for Tom's troubles. We also discovered that at least two other machines were the sources of inordinate numbers of votes."

[ET Awful]

1. Odds are that at least 5 of the 10 computers are located in a

Scientology org somewhere.

[InternalDialogue]

2. Let's see:

14,000 votes came from 10 computers, so those 14,000 votes should have been just 10 votes. Final real tally: 4000-10 that Tom Cruise is crazy. Sounds about right to me.

Now back to real news...

[Initech]

3. Those 10 computers are probably owned by Scientology

[EarlG]

4. OMG!

Online poll results are unreliable!

Thanks for that, Fox News :eyes:

[underpants]

5. Correction PARADE magazine polls are unreliable

Seriously though do regular readers of Parade magazine use computers that much???? Really?

[Wabbajack]

6. Scientelogy is a cult

Have you read about how they'd tried to frame a woman who wrote an unfavorable book about them for making BOMB threats?

[aden_nak]

7. Welcome to 1997, Parade. Now get a poll that tracks IP addresses.

[zalinda]

8. Okay, you don't believe anything that Fox news

says about Bush, but you'll believe what they say about a Tom Cruise poll. Give me a break, you're prejudice is showing.

zalinda

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. That's okay. Tom Cruise is kinda "skewed," too... (n/t)

[noonwitch]

10. We all know how important it is to have an accurate Tom Cruise poll!

There's no more important issue on earth than Tom Cruise, his girlfriend and his baby, except perhaps whether he really did eat the placenta or not.

All that is far more important than any other topic could ever be.

Now I'm going home to watch my stories.