 It is a low cost and quick way of generating data but it has been criticized because of this.Mike O'Neil of O'Neil Associates Public Opinion Research called this method "cheap and untrustworthy" and news organisations such as CNN, the Associated Press, the "New York Times", the "Wall street Journal" and the "Washington Post" will not use results from automated polls.Compared to the conventional questionnaires, it saves times and money to conduct the automated telephone survey.