consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Build a marketing database and send targeted HTML and text e-mail newsletters to your customers with List Builder. http://www.listbuilder.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The U.S. press corps seems to have learned nothing from Election Night. In its latest rush to declare a final winner in Florida, a tally of "undervotes" in Miami-Dade County -- showing George W. Bush clinging to a 140-vote lead -- has been transformed by the national news media into a conclusion that Bush really did win Florida. That isn't exactly what the Miami Herald said, especially since the newspaper has nearly 50,000 more undervotes to tally in the rest of the state -- and other Florida newspapers in those counties have uncovered gains for Al Gore in both "undervotes" and so-called "overvotes." The Miami Herald's point was that the Miami-Dade recount -- combined with earlier South Florida recounts -- would not have put Gore in the lead. Who really "won" Florida is still unclear. But the American press corps is none too great with nuance these days. For the story about the news media's latest bungle in Florida, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
