The San Antonio Express-News has announced that after this basketball season, it will no longer participate in Associated Press polls. The paper said it first considered this policy when there were controversies resulting from the AP poll's use in the BCS standings. But now that the AP poll isn't used in the BCS, what's the problem?"There were other issues," [the paper's sports editor] said, "including the treatment of a New Orleans reporter who made an honest mistake voting on deadline last football season. That reporter was publicly humiliated by the AP, and we won't subject our own reporters to that kind of treatment."The bottom line, though, is the poll evolved into something it was never meant to be. So we won't be a part of it anymore."
That's a weak rationale. If you're concerned about having your reporters "humiliated" by mistakes in their poll votes, how about telling them to double-check their ballots? A reporter can be "humiliated" by mistakes in a column in the paper, too. The solution is to eliminate mistakes, not to eliminate columns.
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