Stupid Local TV News Survey

I don't know why this stuff bothers me, but I get so tired of stupid people doing stupid things without realizing how stupid they are. I just witnessed an example of the type of thing that just drives me bonkers.

I was watching the local TV news. We just had a pretty severe ice storm in the area and I guess there have been a few power outages. This particular station likes to "engage" its viewers by conducting a daily survey. Tonight's survey question:

Do you think the power company will be
able to keep up with the power outages in our area?

What is the point of asking a survey question to which the answer has absolutely no significance? Whatever you "think" is going to have no bearing on whether they are or are not able to deal with their power problems! What is the point of asking a survey question that has a factual, provable answer? It's like asking, "Do you think there is any water in the ocean?"

It doesn't matter what you think! If they are able to "keep up" (whatever that means), what does it possibly mean if you thought they would not be able to? Or what if you didn't think they could, and they did - or didn't - or CRAP! It doesn't matter!

It's just stupid, meaningless, pointless and a waste of everyone's time.

What's more - if your power is out - you can't watch their idiotic newscast!

Of course they'll probably get thousands and thousands of people calling or e-mailing their opinion and anxiously watching to see the results. I guess that's why no one has ever asked me to manage a TV station.