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Originally Posted by daswig
I'll pass. There would need to be a REALLY good reason to restrict the freedom of the press, and that's what it would be.
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There's already plenty of restrictions on the freedom of the press. Quite often because it is considered to be beneficial for particular reasons.
Opinion polls are unreliable by around 3% per 1000 samples according to a statician I heard discussing this on the radio yesterday. I believe the idea is that because of this unreliability, fundamentally inaccurate opinion polls can have an effect on the election. This is considered a bad thing, as people are basing their voting on erroneous data rather than on campaign issues.
At least I think that's the idea/reasoning behind it.
Mr Mephisto