COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
Why would The
Independent spend so many resources on a rather dumb poll attacking a new
leader?
Not sure what would motivate that effort, other than your
publisher simply not liking him. There can’t be many people reading the paper
to learn that quite unimportant fact.
The truth is that a term like 'increasingly incompetent'
cannot even be handled well in a proper poll.
It is not only a loaded term, it is ambiguous. Increasingly?
Just how would one define that? Compared to what when?
Especially given the relentless press attack we’ve had on Mr.
Corbyn since he was even suspected of possibly winning the leadership.
The results of a poll such as this shabby effort of yours largely
reflects people's having read and heard "increasingly" negative press
coverage about Mr. Corbyn, and gives us no actual information.
This kind of suggestive propaganda is quite shameful.
It is deliberately malicious, and do you think it is the
proper function of the press to be deliberately malicious?
If you have a genuine story that reflects badly on Corbyn,
of course, you should publish it.
But this crap is the equivalent of an interviewer asking a
public figure: "Is it true what they say that you’ve stopped beating your
wife?"
