document.write( "Question 729904: In early 1995, The Milwaukee Sentinel, a morning newspaper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and The Milwaukee Journal, and afternoon newspaper, merged to become The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel? Several weeks after the merger, a Milwaukee television station, WITI-TV, conducted a telephone call-in survey asking whether viewers like the new Journal Sentinel. The survey was “not scientific” because any viewer wishing to call in could do so.\r \n" );
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document.write( "On April 26, 1995, Tim Cuprisin, in his “Inside TV & Radio” column in the Journal Sentinel, wrote the following comment:\r \n" );
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document.write( "WE DIDN’T CALL: WITI-TV (Channel 6) did one of those polls—which they admit are unscientific—last week and found that 388 viewers like the new Journal Sentinel and 2,629 don’t like it.\r \n" );
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document.write( "We did our own unscientific poll on whether those channel 6 surveys accurately reflect public opinion. The results: a full 100 percent say absolutely, positively not.\r \n" );
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document.write( "Is Cuprisin’s comment justified? Explain why or why not? \n" );
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