[Otto Krueger]

You preview and preview and preview, and .... Antepenultimate paragraph should read:

The "attack" of the Freepers on the Spiegel-Online vote has, without exagerrating it, news value. If it were just this one case of one Vote, that news value would be limited. But in the case of the Freepers, it's about an organized group that engages in a massive undertaking, whereever they can, to manipulate "expressions of public opinion" like Votes.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"The "attack" of the Freepers on the Spiegel-Online vote has, without exagerrating it, news value. But in the case of the Freepers, it's about an organized group that engages in a massive undertaking, whereever they can, to manipulate "expressions of public opinion" like Votes."

Are we not allowed to express our public opinion too? This reminds me of the BBC headline from the other day about an election in Europe that read "Conservatives seize power" [sorry but I forget the exact country].

[aquila48]

But in the case of the Freepers, it's about an organized group that engages in a massive undertaking, whereever they can, to manipulate "expressions of public opinion" like Votes.

The way I see it, it is publications like the Spiegel that are manipulating the public opinion. First they publish unadultered propaganda bashing Bush and then they ask their brainwashed readers what they think of Bush. Later they use the results of the polls (which they know how they will turn out before they even ask), to reinforce their biased reporting. One incestuous event after another.

All of these self-selected polls are meaningless - I'm glad we freepers have done our part to expose and, hopefully, put an end to them.