Karen Straughan is a well known Canadian vlogger. Here is her take on Trump’s victory and how the mainstream media polluted the minds of many during the campaign:
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Karen Straughan is a well known Canadian vlogger. Here is her take on Trump’s victory and how the mainstream media polluted the minds of many during the campaign:
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I’ve just spent more time watching a good comment from someone I’ve never heard of than I’ve spent watching the Canadian MSM in years. What does that say about the dying media!
Damn, I’m with you.
Dying ever faster.
I wish the zombie media would hurry up and lay down.
After this exposure of their mendacity, by their own actions,their stench is up the nose of every freedom loving citizen.
Their support of Hillary is just like their passion for “Human Rights”…as in we had to take away your legal rights, your freedom, all your traditional norms….to protect your human rights.
I for see a use for our media presstitutes, as scapegoats…the future they have been grooming themselves for for decades.
I agree. But she’s screaming into a big (but getting much smaller) deaf ear … as are all of us.
I think it quite likely that this woman and me will never be lovers. However, I would love to take her to a nice restaurant, one that doesn’t mind you sticking around and drinking after your meal, and talk for hours. That would be fun.
Sorry for the double post. Stupid computer.
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain
The MSM/LSM will continue to provide an entertainment product to those people who use what they believe is the ‘news’ to validate their preconceived notions. This is true of almost all the liberals I know. For them the credibility of a news source is determined by how much they like the stories and agree with the opinions stated. They have come to personify those three monkeys “see-no-evil”, “hear-no-evil”, “speak-no-evil”. They ignore or dismiss any ‘news’ that doesn’t make them feel good.
Sorry what is mainstream media? Are you telling me that there is still news on TV? I thought TV was for my kid to watch his cartoons?
I spent entire election in front of my laptop following several sources simultaneously and listening to Steven Crowder on YouTube in the background. Not once have I switched the TV on.
The best summary I have heard and true all of it.
How could that haircut have happened?
Think low maintenance and pfft to “style.”
I second that motion.
It would be great to enjoy a coffee with her or a nice glass of Cabernet.
Or, possibly like one of my daughters, has very oily hair condition and keeping it short helps that condition. Besides, it is her words that are important.
Btw, I am old enough to be her father.
I’ll bet “Jigglypuff” is catatonic!
Eerie. How did she read my mind? Hair – no big deal but I bet a lot of lumberjills want to be her friend.
Karen Straughn’s voice is so compelling, you can’t escape it.
Like one of my great teachers from the distant past or was it
some ancient radio series narrator way back when ?
Thank you, Ms. Straughan — well said. My vote for Trump was made a little reluctantly because of his crude comments but the riots of the last three days have convinced me that I made exactly the right choice. close (And thanks, Kate for posting this for those of us down here in the States.)
A pollster comes in from the cold; theirs is an imprecise endeavour after all. Personally I think the humans have a slight edge over the monkeys:
“When cars can drive themselves and machines can learn, we must consider how it is possible that a discipline like polling seems to be getting worse, rather than better.”
As a starting point, we as pollsters should acknowledge the limits of the science, instead of falling in love with our press clippings and pretending we have Kreskin-line powers of clairvoyance. When we publish a margin of error of +/- 3.5 per cent in tiny type at the bottom of the page, we shouldn’t downplay its significance; we should be clear about the fact that while polling is a science, it’s an imprecise one.”
The difference in the popular vote share of the leading candidates was 0.2 per cent. A million monkeys typing for a thousand years have a better chance of coming up with Macbeth on their own than a pollster does of predicting an election’s outcome to that degree of precision. To think otherwise is either delusional or dishonest — or reflects a failure to understand random probability theory.”
Pollsters can tell whether some voters are more likely to vote than others, but it’s impossible to predict what percentage of the total electorate will actually go to the polls. Because only about six out of ten respondents in a poll actually vote on election day, we are therefore always testing and reporting the opinions and intentions of voters who are really non-voters.”
Part of this known bias also includes an unwillingness to indicate support for unpopular positions or individuals who are cast in a negative light (negative non-response). This undoubtedly accounts for the so-called “hidden Trump supporters” his campaign discussed frequently in the lead up to election-day.”
Add to all this the fact that, in the last decade, we have witnessed a trend of more and more North Americans abandoning land-lines and a corresponding shift away from telephone to internet polling. Because of the way the internet is distributed and used, we know that polls using this platform tend to skew decidedly younger, more urban and better educated.”
http://ipolitics.ca/2016/11/10/why-pollsters-didnt-see-trump-coming/