Isn’t Media Poll before Election Undemocratic? Manipulative Gossip? (Deepak
Sarkar,
As
the North American private media virus is spreading throughout the world
rapidly, it is time to evaluate whether media polls based on a tiny set of
selective data is democratic or even abusive toward the true democratic process
depriving individual to form own opinion toward choosing a candidate!
Most
people have no knowledge about the source and volume of media polling data as
they are watching their favorite Television Channel, Radio station or reading Newspaper!
Usually the predictions are statistical extrapolation based on only 500-1000
people in the media database! Even God doesn’t know
how they selected those people and collected their opinion. It is not surprising to see competitive media in someway
agree with others polling or stay very close to it, within statistical margin
of error!
The
argument is why people need to listen to these fractional statistics before the
actual election? People
belonging to a political party usually vote for their candidate irrespective of
private polling. But the majority of people who are without political
affiliation are severely affected being
Let
us consider this Case Study for an Asian immigrant living in
So,
it is time to evaluate whether we need this
Author: Deepak Sarkar,