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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By any reasonable reading of their own data, the Miami Herald and USA Today should have reported that based on "clear-intent-of-the-voter" standards, Al Gore won the Florida election by 299 votes. If more liberal standards were used, Gore's margin rose to 393. Instead, the two newspapers adopted a contorted reading of their own findings -- deleting the extra votes Gore got in three counties and part of a fourth -- to fashion a lead making George W. Bush the winner, again. The bizarre logic applied by the two newspapers naturally has flown over the heads of the crack national press corps, which simply parrotted the press releases about Bush's victory. The editors at the two newspapers also might have felt that no good would come from writing a story that revealed Gore to be the legitimate winner, since the stock market's in trouble and there's a crisis with China. But for citizens who want to see how these two newspapers rewarded Bush, again, for thwarting a full and fair recount of the Florida vote, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
