Public Opinion: The news is unreliable at best

When dropping my daughter off at school this week, my wife saw a reporter with camera crew approaching parent after parent, exchanging only a handful of words and then moving on.

When they reached my wife, they asked if she was for or against the plan for the President to address the nations schoolchildren with his "stay in school" message. On hearing that she supported the message, the reporter said "we already have that; we're trying to find an opposing opinion" and moved on.

I think they're missing the point.

Doesn't it misrepresent the public opinion to show 1 supporting and 1 opposing view on the news if you have to wade through dozens of supporting views to find that lone dissenter? The report should be "overwhelming majority of locals support the plan", not "here's one supporting/1 dissenting view".