Archive for british polling council
The perils of paying for polls that you don't report
I’ve been running a little series of posts over on Liberal Democrat Voice about poll questions that newspapers have paid for but not reported (see here, here and here). A degree of that is inevitable – after all, it’s fair enough to ask a range of questions to see which give a newsworthy answer as [...]
How did newspapers do at reporting their own polls? (February update)
This year we’ve tracking each month how good newspapers are at reporting their own political opinion polls. Getting your own story right isn’t perhaps the highest of bars to set newspapers, but on past experience it’s one they often seem to miss. But what’s the actual evidence? Who does best? Who does worst?
In order to provide [...]
How did the media do at reporting opinion polls in January?
As I blogged last month, The Voice is going to start rating the quality of the media’s coverage of opinion polls, which is often far from perfect:
There is progress, helped no doubt by the criticism from Anthony Wells and Mike Smithson, both of whom are respected by many of the relevant journalists.
However, there is still [...]
Media to start getting marked for quality of opinion poll reporting
The quality of traditional media coverage of political opinion polling has been a common cause of complaints amongst political bloggers. The most obvious problem is when an opinion poll from one polling company is compared not with the previous poll from that company but against an older one because the intervening one happened to have [...]
