To The American Media: Time To Face The Reality Of Election Rigging

[Judi Lynn]

April 9, 2011 at 08:06:10
To The American Media: Time To Face The Reality Of Election Rigging
By Jonathan Simon

April 8, 2011
To every Journalist and Media Reformer assembled here in Boston:

How does the Big Lie flourish and prosper? By being criminal beyond belief. By operating in safety behind a towering "never happen here" wall of denial. By a foolish assumption of immunity. By being too big a story to be a story within the bounds of journalistic decorum.

The gruesome truth is that American elections can be rigged and are being rigged because the American media treats election rigging as something that--all evidence notwithstanding--could never happen here. Period, end of story, move on.

And we are moving on. To an unrecognizable America. An America in which, when even obscene amounts of cash can't buy enough votes, those votes can be manufactured (added, switched, deleted wholesale) in the darkness of cyberspace. It's too easy. And it's happening. A Big Lie is consuming America.

We ask each of you in turn--reporter, editor, commentator, reformer--are you willing to sit back and let this happen on your watch? Can you take 15 minutes to stand before this picture, taking it in, and then ask yourself, if we have been persuasive, what you are going to do?

More:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/To-The-American-Media-Tim-by-Jonathan-Simon-110408-959.html

[Doctor_J]

1. He's appealing to the wrong people

The media are the linchpin of the teabagger takeover. They're not "letting it happen" - they're making it happen.

[monmouth]

2. They are willing if they want a paycheck, unfortunately...n/t

[msongs]

3. the democratic party doesn't care about electionr rigging, why should media? As in what has the dem

party done nationwide to prevent it since 2000?

[azul]

4. The 2000 fraud problems led to the brilliant 2002 HAVA.

Maybe the know that if they revisit the issue that they will just screw it up worse. The hungry foxes with the bribes and blackmails want back into the hen-house.

[denvercougars]

5. Media Corruption

It's horrible what's happening in Wisconsin right now. It
makes me so angry! I was watching FSTV and had this great
interview with Amitabh Pal where he's talking about this
corruption. It's really good you guys should watch it; here's
the url:
http://www.livestream.com/freespeechtv/video?clipId=flv_e3daa63c-8d40-4e7a-82c3-c245b84b5749

[Judi Lynn]

6. Thank you for posting this interview. Just saw the beginning, have to leave, will see the rest

soon.

Glad to see my first person from The Progressive, too. It will move me to check them more often.

This looks very good.

Thanks, and welcome to D.U., denvercougars. :hi: