> > Okay, so the Academy Awards this year have had a few problems. Aside from the lackluster cream of the crop we've got for Best Movie this year (IMHO, of course), there was the ballot snafu, the statuette theft, and the thing that I'm annoyed about -- the Wall Street Journal exit poll.
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> > For those of you not aware of what the exit poll is, the Wall Street Journal decided to poll several voters in order to predict who will walk away with the Oscar and who's just showing up in expensive clothing to hear Billy Crystal make fun of their career choices.
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> > So, knowing that the WSJ is doing this, I've tried to ignore it -- just not look at the Journal on Friday and I won't know who's going to win. Simple plan, right? Well CNN.com decided to report on this -- but instead of reporting that the WSJ has an exit poll, they're reporting what the WSJ found.
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> > Right there, on CNN's page: "WSJ Poll: Oscar goes to '****'". Of course, they printed the name of the movie.
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> > Man, I hate that.
> >
> > -Faux "I would've expected USA Today to do something like this, but the Wall Street Journal?" Pas
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> I feel your pain. I was just over at the IMDb, and right there on the main page, for all innocent, unsuspecting souls to see, was: "Wall Street Journal Oscar Poll: [BLEEP] will win".
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> Have they no shame?

Aha! I see Jimmy already mentioned the Internet Movie Database thing. Oops.

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