Significance of journalists
In Gatwick and on my way to Greece so excuse sketchiness of this post. I might be able to put proper links in later when I get back to a standard browser.
Over at Window on the Media (good new media blog watching the French mediascape in English by my friend Nicolas - if you read this you should read that too) Nicolas has followed up my query about the value of journalism (posted on Thursday, "Write Elephants") with a poll. As he cheerfully admits a small poll, n=100, but the results are statistically significant for all that. To the question "which of the following could you not live without: fast food joints, footballers, high school teachers, journalists and car mechanics", fast food was considered (by 100 people in Illinois) 3 times more vital than journalists. Go see.
(Away now until 4th August - see you all then.)
... according to a poll run on Facebook. I wonder if a poll run in the Financial Times would produce similar results?
Posted by: Rick | August 06, 2008 at 05:10 PM
I heard Rich Hall the other day suggest that most polls record the opinion of people too fat or dull-witted to dodge a person with a clipboard. I can't help but think Facebook only worsens this trend.
Posted by: Gareth Roberts | August 07, 2008 at 01:16 AM