Media Manipulation and Polling Distortions: Insights from Richard Barris

Richard Barris, known for his critical stance on mainstream polling practices, recently scrutinized how media outlets and pollsters may skew public perception. His analysis sheds light on the often opaque political polling and media reporting world.

“The first way you can manipulate a poll if you so choose… would be to oversample, for example, the Democrats. There are maybe timing issues where you go out with a poll after some transient event has happened.They were afraid, Peter, of the narrativ...