PPT Slide
Christopher Hitchens, “Voting in the Passive Voice” Harper’s Magazine, April 1992.
“Opinion polling was born out of a struggle not to discover the public mind but to master it. It was a weapon in the early wars to thwart organized labor and in the battle against Populism . . . .
“. . . as all pollsters will tell you privately, the answers to poll questions are very greatly influenced by what has lately been defined as important by the television news. . .”