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How Public Opinion Has Been Made Irrelevant in America
2008-07-24 00:27:00 Glen Greenwald (Salon.com) writes: One of the most striking aspects of our political discourse, particularly during election time, is how efficiently certain views that deviate from the elite consensus are banished from sight -- simply prohibited -- even when those views are held by the vast majority of citizens. This discrepancy is a potent commentary on how our democracy functions....read more | digg story
Google Tries to Ignore Economics, Employees, and Public Opinion
2008-07-05 21:57:00 Well, well, well. It appears that Google is indeed like most other companies, and not an entity unto itself. It thought I could ignore 1) the Law of Supply and Demand, 2) its own employees’ opinions, and 3) public opinion. It definitely couldn’t ignore 1). We’ll see how long it can ignore 2) and 3). According ...
By: Total Trust
Public opinion of homeschooling slipping?
2008-06-04 08:38:00 HarrisInteractive released the results of its May 2008 survey of over 2000 adults regarding the status of American education on Monday. Public schools, it seems, are not doing well in the eye of the public. Public schools fall to the bottom of the list when it comes to the quality of ...
Chevy Volt on the NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams
2008-05-28 03:38:00 Considering the current national gas and oil price crisis, media outlets can’t seem to discuss the topic enough. This has led to a break for GM and the Chevy Volt. As readers here have pointed out, the Volt was featured on a segment on tonight’s broadcast of the NBC Nightly news. View it here. Neilson ...
Jay Leno Believes Chevy Volt Sales Will Take Off
2008-05-21 12:52:00 Most people know Jay Leno as the host of the Tonight Show. He is also a huge car fanatic and very enthusiastic about electric cars. He wrote an opinion piece for Conde’ Naste Portfolio in which he expresses reasons why he believes U.S, automakers have lost ground to the Japanese over the years due to ...
Putin?s Puppet Press
2008-05-20 14:27:00 But in today’s Russia, journalists don’t press top officials. In fact, apart from the interviews with Gevorkyan and Kolesnikov, Putin, as president, never publicly faced a single unfriendly question from a Russian reporter. During Putin’s tenure, television broadcasting was honed to perfection — as a tool to shape public opinion. Coverage of political and public affairs ...
By: 1913 Intel
PoliticsHome PHI5000 daily online public opinion tracker launches today.
2008-05-11 10:07:00 Press Release from PoliticsHome:Today we publish the first results from the PHI5000 panel, a politically balanced group of 5000 regular voters across the UK, who answer a survey every day for the new website PoliticsHome.com. The tracker is powered by YouGov.Regular findings from this pioneering new method of public opinion research ? a variation on a giant online focus group ? will be published from today on PoliticsHome.com.Because the sample remains constant, and due to the daily tracker questions that are asked on a rotation system, subtle and immediate changes in public opinion will be able to be observed for the first time, without the margin of error of normal polls."Every day we track a whole range of political questions, parts of which we will release over the coming weeks," says Freddie Sayers, Managing Editor of PoliticsHome. "For the first time, we can say for sure that when a rating changes, real people have definitely changed their mind."Visit PoliticsHome.com for more...
By: Daily Referendum
Is GM Really Building the Volt So it Can Sell More Gas Guzzlers?
2008-04-24 03:37:00 An editorial appeared today in the Wall Street Journal entitled "A Volt Out of the Red". It was written in reaction to the transportation department’s proposal yesterday that cars be required to get 36 mpg by 2015. The author asks the question, in light of this, as to whether GM was "genius or ...
GM-Volt.com on NBC Nightly News
2008-04-23 03:37:00 We have achieved another milestone here at GM-Volt.com. On earth day, 4/22/2008, NBC Nightly News aired a segment about the Chevy Volt featuring our site GM-Volt.com. My thanks and appreciation to reporter Brian Thompson who did an excellent job creating the segment. With each new foray into mainstream media, we are all helping to ...
Poll: World is Running out of Oil
2008-04-21 16:57:00 70% of respondants of a new international poll beleived that world oil production has already peaked, and only 22% believe enough new oil will be found to allow it to remain a primary fuel source. Steven Kull director of the poll’s publisher WorldPublicOpinion.org said “What’s most striking is there’s such a widespread consensus around the world ...
Ex-cop appeals to public opinion
2008-03-25 00:57:00 BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - Jobless and with no prospects, Drew Peterson spends his days taking care of his four children: cooking meals, washing clothes, helping with homework.
By: Get rich
Public Opinion Polls as Propaganda at HaArets
2008-03-20 11:45:00 Israel's HaArets daily newspaper fancies itself the Israeli counterpart of The New York Times. I and others would not see such a resemblance as a source of pride. Yet there is something to it, although the NYT commits many more crimes against the trees than the thinner HaArets does. But both pretentiously high-brow rags distort and even falsify the news. HaArets does it through public opinion polls, among other ways. Political scientists and sociologists are well aware that one can usually obtain the answer that best serves one's interests and policy preferences by framing the questions in a suitable manner --or even by eliminating possible choices. That's a good reason to always be wary of public opinion polls. You have to ask, What questions did the poll ask, What alternative choices were supplied, etc. Here's an example from the Israel correspondent of the Economist, not exactly a friend of Israel or of truth.The correspondent, one Gideon Lichfield, wondered at the apparentl...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Volt Nation Meet-Up: GM Opens More Invitations!
2008-03-07 01:27:00 Volt Nation is fast approaching on March 19th 4:30 PM at the Jacob Javits Center during press days of the New York City Auto Show. This historic and groundbreaking event will allow us all to get together, inspect the Chevy Volt show car, and have a townhall Q and A as well as one on one ...
Cotillard?s 9/11 Comments Echo Widely-Respected Experts, Public Opinion
2008-03-03 18:51:00 anthony @ 17:50 GMT Attack dog media attempts to isolate and ridicule French actress by hiding the fact that hundreds of other widely respected experts, as well as the majority of the public, agree with her Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet | Monday, March 3, 2008 A smear campaign against Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard is now ...
By: Suzie-Q
Does GM Need Toyota to Make the Volt More Affordable??
2008-02-23 12:00:00 Motor Trend published a report summarizing some of the presentations at the Society of Automotive Engineers Hybrid Symposium in San Diego last week. One of these was by a Dr. Menahem Anderman of Advanced Automotive Batteries, which gave a “cold-eyed view” on PHEVs. His report concluded that GM won’t be able to make the Volt ...
Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk on GM, Toyota, and the Whitestar
2008-02-16 12:00:00 Elon Musk, founder of Paypal, is also chairman of Tesla Motors, the silicon valley start-up that has recently rolled it’s first production electric car, the Roadster, off the production line. Musk himself owns that one. He was interview by Michael Kanellos of CNET and they covered a range of issues. When asked about whether he felt the ...
PENN NATIONAL’S SLOTS CASINO TO OPEN TUESDAY (PUBLIC OPINION)
2008-02-10 08:17:00 The one-armed bandits hit touched into bicentric Pennsylvania. With 2,020 interval machines, the tone Casino at Quaker National is regular to unstoppered weekday at the 36-year-old horse-racing road in Grantville, Dauphin County. It module be the first, and probable the only, cards in the region.
By: Online casinos
Tesla Founder Martin Eberhard?s Opinion on the Volt
2008-01-20 12:00:00 Tesla Motorcars as you may be aware, is on the verge of producing a fully electric car with over 200 miles of EV range, called the roadster. The company’s founder was Martin Eberhard who has subsequently left the company. Whether he’s disgruntled or not isn’t for me to say, nor frankly to care ...
The Price of the Volt
2008-01-17 17:33:00 Reader response has clearly been quite negative in reaction to Bob Lutz’ mentioning the Volt may cost more than 30,000 initially. There are several considerations however: Cost of fuel will be a lot less; 2 cents/mile for electricity versus 15 cents per mile for gasoline. High likelihood of significant tax rebates for Volt owners. Possible leasing of the battery. The ...
GM?s Troy Clarke: Chevy Volt to become this Generation?s 57? Chevy
2008-01-14 17:40:00 Troy Clarke is GM’s President of North America. I participated in a blogger interview with him. When asked about why and whether GM has positioned itself as an alternative energy powertrain leader. He noted the top three reasons are; concern over climate change, price of gas, and energy indepoendence . He feels GM has positioned itself ...
GM-Volt Bumper Sticker Contest - Round Two
2007-12-30 14:49:00 We have a winner from our first round of bumper stickers (see post). Now we have several more to choose from that our readers submitted. Thanks for your efforts! Vote for your favorite. The winner of this round will go against the winner of the first round to decide on the final ...
It?s OK to Drink the Kool-Aid: IS GM-Volt.com is a Chevy Volt Cult?
2007-12-26 15:58:00 Today our site was featured in an article by the Detroit News, describing the online following of the Chevy Volt’s development as being cult-like. The report includes some quotes by me about the site and the car, and my reason for doing this. Also mentioned are some comments from GM spokespersons and an acknowledgment that GM ...
Harnessing the power of public opinion
2007-12-21 22:36:00 Rainforest Action Network is a strategic, progressive environmental organization whose power lies in large-scale market transformation. They run hard-hitting campaigns and ads against polluter corporations and companies. In order to save their brands a lot of companies have done U-turns shortly after they have been RAN-ed. The power of public opinion is strong and RAN seems to know how to use it. Action against Citibank and Bank of America which are two large funders of dirty coal.
By: Revolving Doors
EV-1 and the Volt: as per GM
2007-11-28 14:07:00 Well, our first Q & A session is over. 42 question asked with detailed answers. I hope everyone enjoyed it. There was one last question, though… I asked Scott Fosgard, who is director of GM communications, whether GM is specifically reaching out to former EV-1 drivers. I actually asked this question at the behest of Doug ...
Public Opinion: 76% say, state of emergency is to be condemned
2007-11-24 17:52:00 read more
By: BuzzVines
New Chevy Volt Theme Park in Disney?s Epcot Center?
2007-11-22 19:55:00 At the L.A. Auto Show last week, Bob Lutz announced a deal between GM and Walt Disney Productions. The entertainment company agreed to take ownership of 10 Chevy Equinox hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as part of the project driveway program. This will be an example of an experimental fleet. Today, an article appeared suggesting ...
Toyota Denies it Denigrated the Volt
2007-11-21 16:08:00 An article was just published in the New York Times about the green tint of the L.A. Auto Show. The article discusses comments Bob Lutz made about Toyota. He referred to “a showdown at the O.K. Corral”, referencing an “unnamed” Asian automaker’s presentation at the Tokyo auto show in which the Volt was dismissed as ...
Jpanese Public Opinion Hostile To North Korea
2007-11-19 01:27:00 Since the end of World War II, Japanese public opinion has been remarkably quiet when it comes to exerting pressure on the government concerning foreign policy issues, but the average Japanese citizen apparently has his/her back up against any further relations with North Korea until the abduction of their citizens by the North Koreans is ...
60% of New U.S. Car Buyers are Against Buying American Brands
2007-11-13 06:00:00 In an article in the Detroit Press, figures are given with respect to the 2.7 million Americans shopping for a new family sedan. According to GM research, 20% have an American brand in mind prior to purchase, and 20% are “import neutral”; they would buy either U.S. or foreign. However, the majority, a full 60% ...
GM-Volt Exclusive Feature: Ask the Chevy Volt Leadership Team Your Question
2007-11-11 20:37:00 One of the most important things we are doing here at GM-Volt.com is building a community of people who are interested in owning and driving this groundbreaking new car. We are striving to keep the development of this car as transparent and accessible to the public as possible, and allow for public feedback to ...
Toyota?s People Think the Volt Will Blow up in GM?s Face
2007-11-09 14:02:00 In the battle to be the world’s number one automaker, at times things get a little ugly. We have heard alot about how Toyota thinks the Prius’ conservative parallel design is superior to E-Flex, and how they conservatively believe lithium-ion isn’t ready for cars yet (although they have that little Vitz secret), or that maybe ...
Public Opinion:Om Shanti Om Vs Saawariya
2007-11-06 20:48:00 Box-office is ready for the crackers to be burst on the arrival of Om Shanti Om and Saawariya.The marketing team of both film are working overtime to promote their film adn to win the heart of the audience.Watch out this video for the public opinion -which film they are going to watch first will ...
Toyota President Claims ?we must go beyond lithium-ion? to Develop Plug-in
2007-11-04 06:00:00 Toyota 1/x 925 lb. concept The New York Times has just published an article about Toyota’s impending foray into the plug-in vehicle market. As we already know, GM appears to be ahead of Toyota in their quest to develop a plug-in electric car. GM already has their first pack, whereas Toyota has repeatedly said lithium-ion ...
WIRED Magazine Expires the Volt
2007-11-01 15:53:00 I admit it, I am an avid reader of WIRED magazine, more or less since it’s inception. For those not familiar with it, every issue has a segment called “Expired-Tired-Wired̶-1;; a concise commentary about tech trends. In this month’s issue, the Volt got shoved into the expired box, with the ?Prius a step higher in the tired ...
GM-Volt.com Named Among Top 10 Green Car Websites by New York Times
2007-10-24 15:04:00 Our efforts have been recognized. Today the New York Times has published an entire section (H) (LINK) devoted to the green car revolution. Amongst the articles is a piece by Ray Wert, senior editor of the quintessential car blog Jalopnik.com. The segment (on page 18) lists the top 10 green car websites ...
Parliamentary committee seeks public opinion on sex education
2007-10-24 10:56:00 Sex education came out of the closet in Chennai with a parliamentary committee seeking the public's views. The Committee on Petitions, which is chaired by ...
By: B4U India
Honda Says Chevy Volt Makes No Sense
2007-10-23 16:50:00 Hot on the heels of Toyota’s negative comments about the Volt which we reported in our last post, Honda has taken it one step further, and right from the top. Honda’s CEO Takeo Fukui told the Wall Street Journal that when lithium-ion batteries become available for them, a pure electric car would be the way to ...
Please do not try to manipulate public opinion with planted stories
2007-10-18 12:20:00 The news report headlined “Recipe for killing Internet in India” published in Times of India on October 17th has created a small stir amongst Internet and Cyber Law observers in India. This report has been followed up by an editorial today titled “Don’t Chain The Net” and an online survey on “Holding Internet Service Providers responsible ...
John Waters Responds Directly on GM-Volt.com About His Criticism of the Vol
2007-10-17 16:01:00 John Waters On September 30th, we posted about a new PHEV consortium founded by the Rocky Mountain Institute and led by former EV-1 engineer and EnerDel VP John Waters. We had reported some comments Mr. Waters had made regarding the inefficiency of design of the Volt. Our readers picked up on this and presented a ...
What?s All this Tom Friedman, Automakers, and CAFE Fuss?
2007-10-04 22:25:00 Anyone who reads auto blogs and newspapers by now has heard a lot about Tom Friedmans Op-ed in the New York Times yesterday. In it he bashed Toyota for joining with the Big 3 automakers in encouraging the defeat of a Senate bill to move CAFE gas mileage standards to a corporate average of ...
Will GM Name it the Volt But Change the Brand?
2007-10-02 19:59:00 We have previously discussed the importance of naming this car the Volt (see previous post), and even got GM to make some comments about it. We took an informal poll and found an overwhelming majority of visitors here wanted the production car to keep the Volt name (see post). As we also reported, the UAW ...
New Harris Poll: More Than 25% of Car Owners Plan PHEV as Next Car
2007-09-28 17:29:00 In the AutoTECHCASTSM study, 27% of U.S. vehicle owners said they were likely (13%), very likely (8%) or extremely likely (6%) to make a PHEV their next vehicle. When told there would be a $3,200 price premium, the consideration rate dropped to a total of 16%. Males and females were equally likely to include the technology in ...
More Fighting Words From Bob Lutz
2007-09-27 21:52:00 The strike is over, and GM has an improved position against competitors with the health care nugget off the books. Now its time to get back to hybrid technology revolution-making. Next month we will see the release to dealers of the first-ever two-mode hybrids in form of Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon (read my test ...
100 Silicon Valley Executives Pledge to Drive Plug-in Hybrids by 2008
2007-09-24 12:32:00 The Silicon Valley Leadership Group is a consortium of high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, California. The group is releasing a “Clean and Green” action plan about what these companies can do to help reduced fuel consumption and carbon emissions. As a part of the initiative 100 executives from member companies have pledged to drive plug-in ...
GM Determined to be Automotive Technology Leader
2007-09-22 17:37:00 The Chevy Volt has Toyota shaking in their boots, and making weak arguments why the parallel hybrid is better than the series hybrid design of the Volt. As well, GM has forced Toyota to feebly put out to test limited mileage plug-in Priuses, and to acknowledge that their lithium-ion battery supplier is not yet ...
Project Driveway Update
2007-09-19 17:44:00 For those of you who might not know, Project Driveway is the name GM is giving to a modestly-large scale hydrogen fuel cell vehicle test it is planning. For the event, GM will be giving out 100 hydrogen-powered Chevy Equinoxes to selected and fortunate parties in the U.S. located in L.A., N.Y.C., and Wash D.C. ...
Chevy Volt on CBS Sunday Morning: Lutz Says Priced ?Nicely? Under $30,000
2007-09-16 19:25:00 First, welcome to anyone arriving to this site who just heard about the Volt on National TV this AM. Today, on national televison CBS aired a segment about the future of cars and the fact they will be runnig on electricity and not gas. Featured was the Tesla Roadster, as the small silicon valley “scrappy” start-up. Aslso ...
oil companies efforts are failing to change public opinion and airlines are
2007-09-04 03:49:00 US consumers don’t appear to hold positive views of many industries, according to the findings from a Harris Poll conducted in July 2007. Looking at the period 1997-2007 the only categories to show positive growth were- hospitals, banks and car manufacturers. Those with some work to do on their image included the obvious candidates; health insurers, and tobacco companies. Oil companies, always the category the public loves to hate, are still hurting despite the efforts of PR and advertising to turn things around.Most surprising was the performance of airlines, who've experienced a 40 point decline since 1997. The category was the subject of last week's Business Week cover story that suggested things are unlikely to get better anytime soon.And if you think the Summer from Hell is over, fasten your seat belt. The FAA predicts 1 billion passengers a year will take to the skies by 2015, a 36% increase from the current level. FAA officials say this year's Labor Day crunch could ...
By: Influx Insights
Toyota Thinks People Might Not Want Plug-in Electric Vehicles Like the Chev
2007-08-25 17:08:00 Bloomberg.com has published a surprising interview with Bill Reinert, national manager for advanced vehicle technology at Toyota’s U.S. unit. He is reported to express uncertainty at what the size of the plug-in hybrid market will actually be. He goes on to note that there is indeed much enthusiasm about plug-in hybrids right now, but is suspicious ...
Over the liberty of the interpretation with public opinion polls
2007-08-24 10:53:00 The small newspaper published two public opinion polls on Sunday to the national council choice, one in the Kärntner expenditure and one in the steirischen. The BZÖ reacts to it directly with two press sending. In the morning the steirische BZÖ chairman Gerald Grosz grumbles aligns: Bought inquiry! Politprostitution! On afternoon then the Kärntner sent election campaign leader Stefan Petzner praise out: The course is correct! Naturally public opinion polls are always a kind Kaffeesudleserei, sometimes more, sometimes less scientific. And naturally there are interests of the clients. In principle a saying of the former national advice of deer man applies: The best inquiry is those, which one manipulated. But as a choice-recruiting party concerned one should agree at least on how one reacts to such a publication. Best with an opinion.
By: el-blog.com
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