Editorial from Featured Sports Contributor, Hollywood, California, May 25, 2010 – The old maxim of impartially
when conducting a poll survey regardless of what institution it is intended for is to make sure the primary party instrumental of its making must remain neutral and non-partisan. Meaning, Kevin Iole of Yahoo!Sports, who instituted such pollster, must not adulterate the process by including his vote and of his friends, to make sure the true results remain untouched and free of manipulative intent.
Sure, it is presumptuous on the part of Mr. Iole to raise his own flag by using these brilliant writers who were less informed of the mechanics of the system. It does not matter whether the same writers who voted in the previous surveys were used to validate the recent surveys. They have just become victims of one’s willful intent to subdue the true choice of the majority of the boxing fans.
Yes, layman’s understanding as to choosing of who is the No. 1 boxing in the planet must be taken into account. The fans deserve such respect inasmuch as they themselves have also become boxer’s fans and not of boxing.
The fact remains that Mr. Iole and his cohorts’ votes can be tagged of conspiracy. It is unclear if they,themselves, have really gone to the point of unbecoming a true fan of boxing.
They must have underestimated the capacity of the boxing public to discern. And like they say, “Blowing in the wind!”
Despite the fact that Associated Content has now become a publication of Yahoo, this author’s stand must remain untouched, for truth is independent of other constituents that Yahoo is employing for.
It is indeed condescending on the part of Mr. Iole to tell the boxing public that Yahoo Ranking is “not an exact
science” which truly such remark is simply given in any scientific survey. But, the architect who frames the plot is one of questionable bearing, not just the system itself. Conversely, to have his own vote and of his cohorts counted in such survey is not just one of marketing conspiracy but a direct insult to intelligence of those writers from Los Angeles Times, La Opinion, Washington Post, USA Today and even from other major asian publications, which were altogether singled out from participation. The sad thing is that Mr. Iole claims it as a worldwide survey when truly it is not.
Lawyer-Journalist Stephen Miller says it right: Such ranking is a by-product of the malady of the unknown.
The panel of writers should have been screened well just as what the court counsels and the judge do when choosing the right jurors to render judgment on a certain case.
Now, Mr. Iole cries foul of the boxing writers and fans’ reactions, even to the point of wallowing in the quagmire of stupidity and maladaptive entertainment of thoughts.
And, then, Mr. Iole runs away from his own responsibility by becoming a sycophant of one.
One thing is certain: He cannot scratch deeper than what he just did.
