Question Wording

Fair enough, I think it's useful to keep general media consumption separate from those who follow BC politics, myself, but am (obviously) prepared to be over-ruled; certainly I hear that with only five questions we've got to think about bang for buck. I was thinking that it might be useful to us to capture how people follow news generally, but differentiate them from people who follow BC news specifically, and indeed those who follow the news but don't follow provincial stuff (e.g. me :P So maybe I'm biased as to the significance of that portion of the population).

On that note, added "don't really follow" to both questions for now, it's obviously a super important thing to capture. We should find out if the survey is written or given over the telephone; if it's the latter we should winnow down the options on those one/two to keep them manageable (the "daily" option I added kinda on a whim, because it occurred to me that I'd expect rather different behaviour from a Metro reader than a Globe and Mail reader, but ultimately I don't think it's that important a distinction).

Turnout's important, but is it all we want to capture? Political participation seems worth trying for too.

I think the "in the past year have you..." formulation (though I think it should be longer... three years?) is better than "how often do you..." since it allows us to differentiate between different types of activity in a single question, and doesn't rely on subjective interpretations of frequency.