Congrats to the folks in the news business.  You’ve managed to make yourselves the news which allows you to get bigger viewship and web traffic. 

The folks at CNBC apparently aren’t aware of who the real web works.  They thought people on the web are always ethical individuals.  Perhaps they’re stuck thinking of Gallup polls that attempt to give a scientific statistical answer.  But, in today’s day and age, did they really expect any kind of reasonable results from their web poll?  Or, were they merely hoping to generate web traffic?

On top of that, when the results were not what they expected they took it down and wagged their fingers at users of the internet.  “Our poll didn’t turn out the way we wanted and its all your fault!” 

Imagine, people on the internet might not always be ethical.  That never happens, does it?

Now CNBC is the subject of many blog posts around the web.  In their efforts to drive up their site traffic with a poll that has no statistical basis — and therefore no real merit — they’ve done just that by removing the poll.  In essensce, instead of people going to the CNBC site to read the news, people are now going there because CNBC is the news.  We’ve completed the metamorphsis from reporting the news to creating the news to being the news.  Congratulations.  It’s a brave new world.