The Public Opinion Fraud

From Z Magazine via ZNet:

So how can we clarify the role that the corporate media and their incessant polling play in our collective social mindset? In early 2002 we thought about this question and decided to form our own polling organization, Retro Poll. When we looked at our poll results, we saw confusion and asked ourselves: What do these polls tell us when they show nearly 50 percent of the citizenry now believes that Iraq was behind 9-11 almost two years afterwards (even though no evidence exists to corroborate such a sentiment)? Or when a large majority of Americans oppose the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and declare that media is a major cause of the climate of fear in the U.S., yet many of these same people simultaneously support George Bush’s war on terror?

We believe our poll results provide evidence that corporate polls exist mainly to validate corporate media and government disinformation and to tell the public what to think, rather than reflect how they think. The population’s apparent consent to the war on terror is virtually manufactured by media and government. Describing and exposing this phenomenon is the focus of Retro Poll. Behind the phenomenon we find that even the best polls, those that use reliable methods, are usually concealing vital truths from the public, either by omitting, hiding, or oversimplifying important information, by choice.

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