NOLA.com, the homepage of the Times Picayune (or times Pick-On-You as some would say) introduced three new political blogs to their website this morning: Pelican Briefs, City Hall Insider and Eye on Jefferson city.
Pelican Briefs will focus on State and National politics.
City Insider will be New Orleans city news.
And Eye on Jefferson City will focus on Jefferson parish politics, both East and West Bank.
Pelican Briefs contributors will include Robert Scott, who published an article last week entitled "David Vitter leads Charlie Melancon in latest poll on Senate race".
The article made reference to a poll comissioned by Baton Rouge business man and Republican candidate bankroller Lane Grisby and conducted by Southern Media and Opinion Research.
I contacted the reporter, Robert Scott about getting a copy of the poll (I called him on the phone number published with the article 225.342.4197 ) and he directed me to Southern Media for a copy. I called the Southern Media office at 225.383.4509 and left a message with a secretary Wednesday. I gave her my name and phone number and email, but never heard anything back.
I'm planning to call tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get a copy emailed to me, or a link to it somewhere on the web... If yall want to try calling Southern Media too, we might have better luck getting a copy. I made sure to tell them I was a student from LSU, studying political science so hopefully they will share it with us in the name of education :-)
If they blow me off again, I'm calling back Robert Scott, and asking him for a copy.
I'll try to post it on here when I get it, but until then check out the new NOLA blogs.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Now that's some investigative journalism, Em!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen I get a new cell phone today I'll call!
Pollster.com has lots of good commentary about poll disclosure: http://www.pollster.com/blogs/the_pollstercom_disclosure_pro.php . As a bonus, the questions surrounding whether people who do polls ought to disclose their methods is explained by Pollster.com in the context of how to measure likely voters, also a topic with much relevance to this course!
ReplyDelete