# Mainstream Media Accountability Survey **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 17, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100 "2017-02-17T20:23:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/1 "2017-02-17T20:23:36Z")
[Make your voice heard](https://gop.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/). Never have I read so shamelessly manipulative a set of questions. Nevertheless, you should be able to find an answer you can live with (in one case, I had to leave it blank). And every question is #1, so you have no idea how many you have answered. Also, the form asks for your name, email and zip code. I put in fake ones (based on a throwaway email I have) and I don’t know what sort of followup there is. Nothing so far. Finally, they continue by asking for money after the survey, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/2 "2017-02-17T20:59:00Z")
My wife was doing this last night. My opinion is that the GOP doesn’t give a shit what the responses are, they just want a bunch of people to read “Are you aware that the mainstream media lies worse than the Great Satan and hates everything America stands for? Yes or No” Just taking the “poll” feeds into what they want. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/3 "2017-02-17T21:22:51Z")
Considering that it was only sent out to their own mailing lists, having other people with different ideas fill it out can only be salutary. “Do you believe these 7 things that I want you to believe?” No, no, no, no, no, no, and no. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/4 "2017-02-18T09:38:39Z")
This is a push poll sent primarily to people already on Trump’s mailing list and the results will probably be presented to Trump so as to reinforce his high opinion of himself and agenda. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/5 "2017-02-19T04:39:17Z")
> [@Dereknocue67](#): > > This is a push poll sent primarily to people already on Trump’s mailing list and the results will probably be presented to Trump so as to reinforce his high opinion of himself and agenda. Or maybe not. [Trump didn’t receive favorable results, so now he’s calling his own poll rigged.](http://usuncut.com/news/trumps-media-accountability-survey-just-backfired-best-way-ok/) Poor guy, he just can’t catch a break. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/6 "2017-02-19T04:49:31Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Or maybe not. > > [Trump didn’t receive favorable results, so now he’s calling his own poll rigged.](http://usuncut.com/news/trumps-media-accountability-survey-just-backfired-best-way-ok/) > > Poor guy, he just can’t catch a break. Heh. > [@](#): > > While no results have been released as of now, a follow up email was sent the next day saying that the “mainstream media outlets have viciously attacked it (the survey)… and **thousands of Democrats have taken it to try to sabotage the results.** ” My fault. I put Bill Clinton’s name and the President email on the survey. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/7 "2017-02-19T04:59:39Z")
Damn Democrats have no right to give an opinion on a survey to the American people! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/8 "2017-02-19T05:58:26Z")
> [@Dereknocue67](#): > > This is a push poll sent primarily to people already on Trump’s mailing list and the results will probably be presented to Trump so as to reinforce his high opinion of himself and agenda. Nothing to do with that, or at least mainly not. It’s email mining. They’re building an email list he can sell to Republican campaigns. That’s why it’s asking for your name and zip code. The info goes into a database, and then , come election time, campaigns can buy lists targeted by zip code. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/9 "2017-02-19T06:23:30Z")
> [@](#): > > While no results have been released as of now, a follow up email was sent the next day saying that the “mainstream media outlets have viciously attacked it (the survey)… and thousands of Democrats have taken it to try to sabotage the results.” Proof positive of Trump’s growing popularity. Just a few months ago, three million people were sabotaging Trump and now it’s down to just a few thousand. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/780100/10 "2017-02-19T07:34:42Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Nothing to do with that, or at least mainly not. It’s email mining. They’re building an email list he can sell to Republican campaigns. That’s why it’s asking for your name and zip code. The info goes into a database, and then , come election time, campaigns can buy lists targeted by zip code. I filled it out, with all the answers they clearly _didn’t_ want me to give, and gave “Do Not Send Me Any of Your Fake News Spam Email Bullshit” as my name, along with my legit email address and zip code. I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing whether I end up on their list.