What’s a good way for journalists to capture the mood of the masses? Conduct an opinion poll? Ask leading questions? Speak to a cross-section of people? And then wrap up the vox pop with their concluding remarks? When this is done in print, you trust the publication and the journalist. But when it’s on news television, the channel and journo stand exposed.

I have nothing against the process followed, but I don’t think it’s right for the presenter to get the views of a handful of people and extrapolate it to the mood of an entire community or institution.