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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 [...]
Damian McBride, Derek Draper and the smears against Tories
The Telegraph has reported:
Row as Number 10 emails ’smear Tories’
The emails, which made a number of unfounded, innuendo-laden suggestions about the private lives of David Cameron, George Osborne and other Conservative MPs, came into the possession of Paul Staines, who writes the Guido Fawkes political blog…
The prospect of publication [of the emails] alarmed ministers, who [...]
