Why We Relaunched Gallup.com

Gallup.com ^ | Ocober 18, 2014 | Jim Clifton

[gusopol3]

The world's 7 billion citizens get most of their news from reporters and experts -- it's edited and filtered by how these professionals see events. Gallup applauds the work they do. But the one missing element from most reporting and analyses are the opinions, thoughts, and feelings of those 7 billion citizens themselves -- how they see events.

This week we are relaunching our e-newspaper, Gallup.com, to broaden and deepen our coverage of the opinions, thoughts, and well-being of citizens around the world -- the will of the people. So while the news media continues to cover events from the view of journalists and experts, our newspaper will be the only one in the world where citizens are the reporters and experts.

[gusopol3]

Maybe they will explain the excursions in Obama approval day-to-day, eventually. Just when he starts heading where he belongs, <40 % approval, he'll have a great day with approval up 4% and disapproval down 3 %. Then he drifts back to where he was. All without any apparent connection to events.

[gusopol3]

http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx

This link still takes you directly to approval, but presented on a different style of the page.

[bigbob]

Their old dartboard wore out?

[skeeter]

So Gallup will begin polling people who get their news from biased reporters?

Here's an idea - start a newspaper that has a few basic reporting principles - no subjectivity, only an objective coverage of fact; no quoting unnamed sources; no selective editing; oh and no making things up.

Wouldn't that be a refreshing change and a more useful source of news than more polls?

[gusopol3]

Some people check their horoscope; I check the polls.