The editor came up with the following bullshit:
Responding to this, Straits Times editor Warren Fernandez said
the paper would co-operate with any police investigation into the
report. He said: "Our reporters spoke with residents in Punggol
East to get their comments and a sense of the ground for our
election reports. This was not a full-scale survey, or scientific
poll, by any means.
"The headline for our story overstated the significance of the
information gathered by calling it a poll. We are sorry for this
lapse."
Frankly speaking, that is on the same level as the lame excuses
I hear on Dateline: To Catch a Predator.
If you interview 50 people and publish the results, it is called
a poll. Simple as that.
But like I said, seeing that this is ST, we're just going to see
them get a stern warning.
