OLBERMAN'S COMMENTS AND COMMENTS FROM OTHERS ABOUT WHY MEDIA HAS "LOCKED" DOWN THE ELECTION STORY. I hope I don't get in trouble for cutting & pasting more than 4 paragraphs. ==================================================
http://stolenelection.net/Media accused of ignoring election irregularities
By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff | November 17, 2004
There's the widely circulated e-mail about a CBS producer who complained that a news industry "lock-down" has prevented journalists from investigating voting problems that cropped up on Nov 2. ~~~~~~~> There's the rumor that MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who has devoted serious air time to discussing Election Day irregularities, was fired for broaching the topic. There's the assertion by Bev Harris, executive director of Black Box Voting Inc., that she had received calls from network employees saying they had been told to lay off the sensitive subject of voting fraud.
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Tracking down the sources of the rapidly proliferating online allegations about a media "lock-down" is a daunting task. But the response to them has been unequivocal. "Absolutely untrue," a CBS spokeswoman, Sandy Genelius, said when asked about the report of the whistle-blowing CBS producer. "Absolutely, positively, categorically false. Besides that, it's absurd."
"There are a lot of nervous people out there," said Olbermann, whose disappearance from MSNBC was the result not of being terminated but of taking a vacation. "I'm both amused and a little terrified that I became the subject of an Internet rumor."
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No one has been more engaged in the issue than Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's prime-time "Countdown" program.
"The thing that woke me up was the lock-down in Warren County," he said, referring to a Cincinnati Enquirer report that officials in that Ohio county, citing terrorist threats, barred observers from the vote count. "I began to investigate then or at least raise questions. . . . It turns out there are a lot of valid stories, at least valid stories worth investigating."
Olbermann said there are a number of reasons much of the media have not been pursuing the story as ardently as he is, including "a love-hate
with the blogs. Whatever new media is appearing, the established news industry tend to look down on it." At the same time, Olbermann flatly denies the blogger-fueled rumor that he was fired for his interest in voting irregularities, pointing out that MSNBC has let him pursue the probe.
"It's still largely a game of telephone on the Net," he said.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/11/17/media_accused_of_ignoring_election_irregularities?mode=PF
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