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Sky News & Evening Standard lie about their own polls

Derek | 30.11.2011 08:28 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts

Sky News & Evening Standard lie about their own polls



Sky TV News poll at 8:10am says 60% of their viewers support the N30 strikes, yet, with uniquely tabloid logic, the news anchor concludes on that basis that basically people just "care about their own lives"!

With similar logic, an article in yesterday's The Evening Standard concluded that the "majority" of Londoners support the FORCED removal of OLSX protestors, despite the fact that their actual figure - 48%, isn't a majority, it's a MINORITY. An actual majority - 56%, said they didn't support OSLX's right to remain FOREVER, but that doesn't mean they support the camp's forced removal. In fact, despite weeks of vicious smear campaigns by The Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Times and Daily Torygraph etc, 26% of those polled said they support the right of OLSX to remain indefinitely - which, if that does reflect the capital's population overall, means over TWO MILLION Londoners strongly support OLSX, which is a pretty good result for anti-capitalism

Derek

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More Londoners support OLSX than voted Tory

30.11.2011 08:37

Correction, - it was 28% not 26%. In perspective, there was a 65% turnout in the 2010 general election, and 36% of those people - 23% overall, voted Tory, so on these figures it looks like more Londoners support OLSX than voted Tory. Don't suppose we'll being seeing that analysis trumpeted as headline news

Sam


Sky says 67%, BBC say 61% support N30

30.11.2011 12:04

Sky says 67%, and BBC last night said 61% support N30, even the Torygraph admit 40% support the strikes

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