10-02-2016, 03:39 PM
Hannity din't get the memo..
Quote:Dana Blanton, vice president of public-opinion research at Fox News, had laid out clearly to network producers that unscientific online polls “do not meet our editorial standards” and should not be used on air.Sean Hannity's online-polling foray reveals his Fox News island - Business Insider
Sean Hannity, evidently, did not get the memo. Hannity, taking a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook over the past week, has cited those unscientific online polls as supposed evidence the Republican nominee bested Hillary Clinton in Monday’s presidential debate, leading the charge of some of the network's hosts who had helped Trump push his post-debate message.
That was problematic because those types of web surveys, as Blanton noted, are grossly inaccurate — "nonsense." But time and time again, Hannity blatantly ignored her memo. Hours after it was distributed, he referenced the unscientific online polls on his television program.
Then he did so again on Wednesday. And yet again on Thursday. The sequence has served as yet another sign that Hannity does not play by the same rules as his colleagues at Fox News. The Fox News host has seemed to be immune to the network’s editorial standards — or, as Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple suggested, “100% beyond the reach of Fox News management.”