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Byron Matthews, a sociologist retired from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a partner in an educational software company, lives near Santa Fe, NM.

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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Shameless bias

Splash headline:

CBS poll: 60% oppose stripping any collective bargaining rights from public workers

Wow. Oh, wait. It's a NYT/CBS poll.

Now, here's how you do a poll to get results like those:

A peek under the hood of the NYT/CBS poll

Good grief.

And just in case you missed it, Jane Fonda was on NPR this morning. She was described as "controversial" because "she protested the Viet Nam War."

That's like saying John Wilkes Booth was "controversial" because he "discharged a weapon in a theater."

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