How Much is Enough for the Media to Cover Votergate 2004?

[Clinton Crusader]

http://www.opednews.com/wade_111904_silence.htm

The Resounding Silence Continues. How Much is Enough for the Media to Cover Votergate 2004?
By Anthony Wade

Silence. That is all we continue to hear from our media. There was a time in America when the media would actually practice journalism. They would investigate. They would corroborate. They would scrutinize. In modern day America , this must be proving to be too daunting for our faux media. It seems to be easier to create news, based on what is fed to them. It must be far simpler to just accept what the administration says, instead of actually digging a little to find out if the facts coincide. The problem is that the American people deserve better. They deserve the truth, not parroting of created news stories. Votergate 2004 continues to swell all around us, yet the silence remains deafening. It is beyond silent, it is insulting.

When the cries first rang out from the Internet following the election there was just a sense that things did not seem quite right. Exit polls had clearly shown a Kerry landslide was imminent, yet in swing state after swing state, Bush tallies kept coming up on top. The truly bizarre thing was that in both Ohio and Florida , it was the heavy democratic counties that had not reported at the end and when they did come in, Bush actually gained votes in both states. These concerns fueled the heart of the American people to not just walk away this time. It led to ordinary people gathering data, creating spreadsheets, and analyzing results. Suddenly the cause grew, and more people got on board simply wanting to know what happened. The truth did not seem to be so much to ask. We looked to our media, and the response was silence. Stories about lockdowns in Ohio vote counting, Freedom of Information Act requests, and Congressmen finally asking for an investigation started to bring the story to the surface as Keith Olbermann addressed the growing controversy in prime time.

In response to this, we see the mainstream media still ignoring the largest story out there, the potential theft of a presidential election. We can see segment after segment about Scott Peterson, but no coverage for a stolen democracy. How much will it take for the media to wake up and serve our interests again? Every day there are more and more stories about obvious fraud and statistical impossibilities. Just today a research team at UC Berkeley reported that irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 - 260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in the 2004 presidential election. This study, conducted under the guidance of a PhD sociology professor, found a net gain of 81,000 votes for Bush in Broward County alone. Broward was one of the aforementioned democratic counties that came in late and yet swung for Bush. This is a scientific study using a multiple regression analysis accounting for multiple variables. This is not 'tinfoil hat' theory, as the media would have you believe. The actual data and report can be found at, http://ucdata.berkeley.edu /.

Professor Hout stated today at the press conference, The disparity in favor of the incumbent President Bush cannot be explained away by other factors. The study shows that counties that used electronic voting resulted in disproportionate increases of votes for the President. For the sake of all future elections involving electronic voting, someone needs to explain the statistical anomalies that we found in Florida . We're calling on officials in Florida to take up this task and to take action now. Left unchallenged, does anyone really believe that President Bush's brother, the current Governor of Florida will do anything at all? No, the only way is to exert enough pressure where he has to act. That pressure can certainly come from the citizenry, but it needs to also come from the media. This press conference occurred today, yet went unreported in prime time. It is insulting to the American people that the media chooses to ignore such a vital story.
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[KaryninMiami]

1. Obviously it's still not enough for mainstream media to cover this

But we still need to keep trying to bring their attention to it. Keep those emails, letters and calls coming in. Eventually, someone will cave and feel that it is their obligation as an editor or journalist, to tell this story, regardless of whether it effects their ratings. I don't think I am being too much of an idealist to believe that most people who went into media, did it because they cared about making a difference and about communicating a message.

[tll]

2. did you see Lou Dobbs the other night?

I think it was Lou Dobbs, was about the journalists facing jail for protecting sources (Valerie Plame story etc.)?

On and on about protecting freedom of the press, I found it hilarious in light of the media's treatment of voter issues. Neuter the media? It's already neutered!

Was aggravated to read another 'get over it' editorial in the paper yesterday. Trotted out the conspiracy theorist label again (boy, it's like the new dismissive epithet... I long for the good old days of 'liberal!'). Am trying to craft a carefully worded letter in response.

[prof_science]

3. Who cares?

We don't need the MSM to put their best people on the case. There may have been a time when experienced journalists would have been the best people to do the work of uncovering the fraud, but I don't think that's true anymore. The best people are the ones who are doing it now-- Bev, hedda_foil, etc.

And, there are many who feel that, since MSM is not touching the story, that the story of fraud is NOT a story. We all know better.

Why do we wish so badly for MSM to cover this? I think we should be happy that we have time to get the story straight before the spin machine gets hold of it.

[Straight Shooter]

4. The couch potatoes and couch tomatoes DON'T CARE

Their lives go on, regardless of what happens. They have their SUV, their remote control, their HDTV, and their church where they can pretend that Gawd loves them and Jaysuss forgives them every nasty act they do.

They don't even care if their children get killed in the next war, or the current bush's war, because then they get to play Drama Queen and Drama King to their friends and families and their kid goes down in their family history book as a hero. Life is meaningless when it's all style and no substance, like their leader who has all the ethics of a hologram.

The MSM doesn't matter. We have given them the power, we can take it away. We can write letters, we can talk to people, we can print flyers and leave them on doorknobs and windshields. We don't have to create a mass protest, we can do it one by one by one.

The MSM has become the enemy of truth. And once an entity becomes the enemy of truth, it becomes the enemy of freedom.