• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Surely by the very fact that they don’t keep up with current affairs or the news, they cant be representative of ‘the people’?

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      9 months ago

      A really huge fraction of the population doesn’t keep up with those. Probably about 1/4 don’t read a newspaper, don’t watch TV news, and don’t listen to radio news.