Time polling firm CEO's position on polling

[JPJones]

http://www.srbi.com/award_speech04.html

Dr. Schulman asked. "To do this, we need to teach research methods not as a recipe book exercise or a collection of arcane statistical methods, but as a way to think about and uncover realities to support better policy decisions."

Schulman urged that the next generation of researchers understand the "awesome power of research in providing deep insights into decision-making." He cautioned that that too many university methods classes "have become just one of those dreaded rights of passage" to advance degrees, without instilling an understanding of how research improves society and business.

He suggested that training programs focus more on applying methods to real-world problem identification and that students need to view research methods as a way to solve real world public policy and marketing problems. Criticizing those who believe that research should be used mainly to reduce behavior to mechanistic formulae rather than being concerned with real-world problems, he said, "I would like us to view our mission as physicians diagnosing patients and curing patient ills rather than viewing human behavior as if it were molecular theory."

[NMDemDist2]

1. one BS poll does not an election make

[A_Possum]

2. It's "rites" of passage

but I guess you're into creative spelling as well as creative polling, Schulman.

[BurtWorm]

3. Excellent find!

Thank you! That says a LOT about how "objective" his company's polling is. :toast:

[seabeyond]

4. what is it with just everyone on both sides

wanting to fix everyone. if eVeryOnE would just fix them selves and leave everyone else alone, this would be a way healthier world

still pissed at bush thinking i want him to be my daddy

[OilemFirchen]

5. IOW

If your numbers don't reflect observed reality, convince the public that they need glasses.

[ParanoidPat]

6. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a WINNER!

Do a quick Google search for Operation Mockingbird and then look up D5E. :evilgrin:

Operation Mockingbird (from Disinfopedia)

Allegations worthy of consideration ...

From an undated analysis by Mary Louise posted at PrisonPlanet.com:

"Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post)."

From an undated piece by Steve Kangas titled "The Origins of the Overclass":

"Journalism is a perfect cover for CIA agents. People talk freely to journalists, and few think suspiciously of a journalist aggressively searching for information. Journalists also have power, influence and clout. Not surprisingly, the CIA began a mission in the late 1940s to recruit American journalists on a wide scale, a mission it dubbed Operation MOCKINGBIRD. The agency wanted these journalists not only to relay any sensitive information they discovered, but also to write anti-communist, pro-capitalist propaganda when needed."

"Perhaps no newspaper is more important to the CIA than the Washington Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing dailies. Its location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper to maintain valuable personal contacts with leading intelligence, political and business figures. Unlike other newspapers, the Post operates its own bureaus around the world, rather than relying on AP wire services. Owner Philip Graham was a military intelligence officer in World War II, and later became close friends with CIA figures like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Desmond FitzGerald and Richard Helms. He inherited the Post by marrying Katherine Graham, whose father owned it."

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D5E: Destruction, Degradation, Denial, Disruption, Deceit, and Exploitation

CONCEPT PAPER


Working Group on Preventive and Preemptive Military Intervention


William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell1
Project Coordinators

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U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for an FBI investigation into the forgery of documents cited by President Bush and Secretary Powell as proof of Iraq’s nuclear transactions with Niger. As Rockefeller explained in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller: “There is a possibility that the fabrication of these documents may be part of a larger deception campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion and foreign policy regarding Iraq.”26

The timeliness of Rockefeller’s proposed inquiry was underscored by the appearance of official documents that lay out official American deception plans: "In a document last autumn, the joint chiefs of staff stressed the need for strategic deception and influence operations as tools of war. The army, navy and air force have been directed to devise plans for information warfare."27

According to defense analyst William Arkin, the Bush strategy lays out goals for information warfare that pursue D5E: "destruction, degradation, denial, disruption, deceit, and exploitation." Arkin notes that the wide array of sites and ractices of information control brought into the range of this policy "blurs or even erases the boundaries between factual information and news, on the one hand, and public relations, propaganda and psychological warfare on the other."28

This fusion of military deception programs with media propaganda efforts enabled the Office of Strategic Influence to commission officers from the U.S. Army's Psychological Operations Command to work as interns in the news division of CNN.29

Eventually, the Bush Administration was burned by the political heat generated when the Office of Strategic Influence was leaked to the media. The ensuing firestorm of controversy prompted Secretary Rumsfeld to close the propaganda unit. Yet less than a year later, Rumsfeld stipulated that his action had only been symbolic, and that information warfare missions were still underway at other Pentagon offices: And then there was the Office of Strategic Influence. You may recall that.
And “oh my goodness gracious isn't that terrible, Henny Penny the sky is going to fall.” I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing, fine, I'll give you the corpse. There's the name. You can have the name, but I'm gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have.30

The political implications of blurring military strategic deception and public sphere propaganda are worth exploring, given Arkin's concerns about military deception that "while the policy ostensibly targets foreign enemies, its most likely victim will be the American electorate."31

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[JPJones]

7. Kick nt

[moondust]

8. Diagnosis: Liberal.

What's the cure for that Mr. Schulman and is informed consent required before you begin your treatment?