Please please can (us) journos use this as a chance to shift away from obsessive polling coverage and a bit more towards actual policies, people's characters, and campaigns
Pollsters' over-estimation of the Labour vote at the July election was the biggest on record It was "not a great night" for the industry, according to @drjennings.bsky.social, @martinboon.bsky.social & Lord Hayward, who said there is a "systematic" bias to fix www.politicshome.com/news/article...
The co-founder of a leading polling company has said that there is "systematic" bias across the polling industry that led to the Labour Party being overstated in the run-up to the 2024 General Electio...
It is the same bias that favours Tories....known as FPTP PR now
Sadly I'm not sure the humour translates out of Dutch, but I did love this impassioned plea to knock it the hell off with the polling obsession. (If someone in DutchSky could do a decent translation—mine is very much gist-only—then I will love you forever.)
YouTube video by Even Tot Hier
Whilst I agree, I think that part of the issue was that there was nothing else to report. No big press conference and events were staged for pictures
Oh yes please! It would be nice to see coverage of real policies. In detail. The high degree of focus on who's up who's down of polling is quite frustrating.
Political journalists reporting on policies !? Whatever next! It’s why I’ve turned increasingly to the likes of @bylinetimes.bsky.social
But polls can be reported on with the journalistic arse firmly settled in a nice warm comfy chair! That other type of reporting you talk about may involve displacing said arse and going out to talk to actual humans
Good idea. The newspapers’ relentless reporting on Labour’s upcoming landslide probably helped suppress their vote.