Vox Pop (radio) Vox Pop (radio) Vox Pop was a popular radio program of interviews, quizzes and human interest features, sometimes titled Sidewalk Interviews (1936) and Voice of the People (the name is from the Latin "Vox Populi", meaning "Voice of the People"). It was heard from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. The program was launched in 1932 on KTRH in Houston when advertising salesmen Parks Johnson and Jerry Belcher went into the street with portable microphones to talk to people about the 1932 presidential race between Herbert Hoover and FDR. They continued after the election, and as they developed the
Vox (website) categories. "Vox" takes a liberal-leaning editorial stance. "The New York Times" columnist Ross Douthat, writing in 2016, described "Vox" as "mostly liberal". In March 2014, before it had officially launched, "Vox" was criticized by conservative media commentators, including Erick Erickson, for a video it had published. The website's launch received significant media attention. Websites noted that the launch came around the same time as other data and explainer websites like "FiveThirtyEight" and "The New York Times" The Upshot. "Vox" was described as using clickbait-style headlines to enhance shareability and to act as a "Wikipedia for ongoing news stories". Shortly after