http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/111004.html Explaining ourselves By Robert Parry
Since Election Day, we have written four articles - two focused on the vote count and two on the need to address the rightward tilt of the American news media. These stories have drawn more than the usual level of praise and criticism, perhaps not unexpectedly given the depth of passions surrounding Nov. 2. So I would like to explain our outlook in a little more detail and why we see the two questions - an investigation of the presidential vote count and the need for a stronger media infrastructure - as interrelated. First, we - like many other Americans - believe that questions about the legitimacy of the vote count should be resolved honestly and openly, not just swept under the rug. Well before the election, citizens were complaining about the security of their ballots, especially when using paperless voting machines. The fact that election officials around the country failed to act, or put off fixes until 2006, is troubling. That failure has invited the current skepticism expressed by millions who wonder why exit polls in six swing states and nationwide showed John Kerry winning while the "actual" tallies gave those states to George W. Bush. Even Republican pollster Dick Morris is having trouble reconciling these exit poll discrepancies. "To screw up one exit poll is unheard of," Morris wrote. "To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here." (For the rest of this article, go to url shown at top of this page.) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
