Vox Populi - What Does It Mean?

Vox Populi is where an interview is conducted in the strets. This is more comonly done on news channels where they are trying to get the genuine view and voice of the public. These people are normally just picked out of the audience to answer questions. In America, they call this the M.O.T.S aka ' Man On The Street'. TV personality Steve Allen as the host of the Tonight Show further developed the meaning of "man on the street" where he would interview and with audience paticipation became a common place on night time television. Usually the people who were askd the questions would be seen in a public place and were giving spontaneous opinions. Many of the U.S broadcast journalists prefer to use the abbreviation M.O.S while outside of the U.S, many people prefer the term Vox Pop. Since on occasion the results of the inerview can become unpredictable, the material was generally edited down very specifically. Although Vox Pop seems very close to the term survey, the aim of a Vox Pop is to ask the general public the same question but to get different reactions. This is why on the television you will rarely see when the interviewer asks a group of people a question, you are very unlikely to get the same answer because they are looking for a variation. The interviewers need to make sure that the group of people that they are asking the questions to are of various ages, sexes, classes and communities. Normally the vox pop question will be asked to different people in diferent streets or areas but there is an exception if the question does not apply to the general public, it will only asked to a small group of people; for example asking a group of students about their education.