Reply #44: I don't know

[skepticscott]

but "Seems to me I've heard a lot of good things about them" is not exactly a ringing endorsement. Did you really hear good things about them, or did it just seem like you were hearing them? And what's "a lot"? Do you hear things about McClatchy all the time?

In any case, if pharmaceutical companies will try to blatantly suppress the results of studies that reflect badly on their drugs in development and only release the favorable ones, why is it so hard to believe that a news organization would do the same thing with polls, in order to generate more buzz and better headlines?