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on Immigration Law
This morning OPB chose to repeatedly feature the results of questions 15 & 16 of this survey: 61% of Oregonians support the Arizona immigration law. The problem with all polling like this is that the questions are asked outside of a real-world context.
The real-world question would be something like: "Oregon currently faces a half billon dollar budget shortfall. Given your support for implementing an Arizona-like law here, what tax increases or additional program budget cuts would you favor in order to pay for enforcing and administering such a law?"
Blareing out contextless poll results as news is journalistically fraught and can easily be taken as editorial advocacy. I expect better from OPB.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on The Economics of the Death Penalty
Just an observation for the hosts: Al Gore couldn't get two sentences of an answer out before being interupted by the hosts. The guests on the death penaly show were allowed to bloviate ad nausem.
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Coming Back From War
This show will be more satisfying if you set the stage and place each story in a larger context.
posted 5 years, 3 months ago
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