I visited CNN's website today, a habit I picked up during US election season and see no reason to crack just yet. As is the way with websites from time to time, upon my arrival I was exhorted to answer a survey, during which I was confronted with a bizarre question which gave me a ten-point scale and an option at each end: "
I like to form my own opinion" at one, and at the other, "
I want to be told the facts."
It seems vaguely worrying to me that a serious news outlet either produced, or failed to veto, a question which seems to suggest that forming one's own opinion is the opposite of getting the facts. What market researchers can deduce from the responses to such a question is anybody's guess. Weird.
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