Media is QUIET on new Gallup poll showing values fourth priority, not first
Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 10:18PM
TheSpook
On December 14, Editor & Publisher reported that a post-election
nationwide Gallup poll found that "values" tied for fourth place as
"the most important problem facing this country today." The Gallup
poll's findings contradicted numerous media reports, based on exit
polls, that declared "moral values" was the most influential issue in
the 2004 presidential election. According to the December 14 Gallup
poll, "moral values" tied with unemployment and jobs, and ranked lower
than the war in Iraq, terrorism, and the economy. Immediately after the
election, the media was quick to trumpet values as the decisive issue
-- yet there was almost no coverage of the recent Gallup results that
could, as Editor & Publisher noted, "deal a death blow to the whole
idea. [more]
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