Not so fast: after faux reporter Karen Ryan's Administration Medicare "news" was packaged by the Bush Administration and sold to TV stations around the country, the Goverment Accountability Office subsequently stated that the reports were ILLEGAL.
When White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was asked about reports that the US military had been paying the Iraqi media to run positive, pro-American stories, he played stupid, but the US military command in Baghdad readily admitted to the pay-for-play scheme...
So..., when the issue is media coverage of election fraud, and the computer scientests are saying that elections are easy to steal--it's time to GET REAL!!!
FOLLOW THE MONEY!!! In CA, wrongly determining propositions 87 and 86 (oil companies to PAY 4 BILLION in taxes for renewable energy--without passing the costs on to the consumer / hospitals and HMOs to reap 2 BILLION annually from cigarette taxes) represents the POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW!!!
Nowadays both the media (the Fourth Estate) and the ACLU (the BILLION Dollar Baby) are mired down by the complexity and large numbers of our humongous society...
Uh huh--RIGHT!!! Or it's just a rich man's conspiracy to turn a blind eye to extremely lucrative blatant crime (as though such a high-class lot of boring losers could ever turn down an opportunity to play dirty pool...)...

Actually, Mark Crispin Miller's amazing article, "None Dare Call It Stolen," in Harper's, appeared long before the one in Rolling Stone was published, though--for some reason--it has barely been acknowledged. MCM also published a book, Fooled Again, about the Ohio election.

Having read Miller's documented study of what went on in Ohio, I can say I believe that if the election was not stolen, it wasn't for not trying. I think that, in all likelihood, it WAS stolen.

The events of the Florida and Ohio elections will, in my opinion, go the way of the Kennedy assassinaton. People like to "move on" and not deal with unpleasant aspects of history. And if there were another highly questionable election, the events of that one, too, would probably be covered up. The myth of the liberal media has never been as ridiculous as it is right now.

I hear that last, Diane. Obviously the voting pools have changed. In the era of the Great Society, when garnering minority votes was a way of gaining power, the Democrats of that day must have been helped by money connected to the media, which somewhat furthered the progress of that window of time. Now the idea is to get votes through angry, disenfranchised crackers and religious supremists, so the media, now influenced by Republican interests [basically most rich, fat-cat multimillionaires] pushes that agenda. It's made even worse today because the media is divided into larger, but less corporate umbrellas. A phone call covers hundreds of papers and dozens of newscasts, news panel shows, etc.
We've got to create a sense that the Dem vote means something so that the formula won't be so easy. After all, on the subject of voter fraud, it may very well be over half of us that see things more progressively than the power-wielders.

"because the media is divided into larger, but less corporate umbrellas"

Oops. Should read like this:
"because the media is divided into fewer, but larger corporate umbrellas."

Without a dsoubt the american people/voters are malleable and the rethugs have a great 'stamping press' with which to do the molding of public opinion. (mixed metaphors, I know). Because of their ability to use a great variety of political, advertising and PR tactics, plus the old tried and true ones of lying and smearing they can manipulate the bible thumpers and the Catholics, my religion, via the pope to vote for them by convincing them that we are in a religious war as well as a terror war. Also the repubs have almost complete control of the media and endless amounts of our tax dollars to benefit them.

The repubs lie with impunity, as in the case of the many secret CIA prisons, the MSM just sloughs it off and the next day it is dropped from the news even before it has sunk into the minds of the American people. BTW, that is the reason why we need to keep repeating their lies and keep it in the forefront ie keep sticking it in the face of the public but how do we do that without the MSM.

I hope I am wrong but I can't yet see/forsee any way the Dems can counter the repub messages at least not this fall.

The dems have major problems because there are way to many of them that are corporate dems like Jane Lakes Harmon. Since these dems are owned by the corps in their district they are really DINOs'.

So to me the real bottom line is corporations can buy votes and the radical right wing religious theocrats do all the footwork ie bring in the vote it is of little wonder that the dems have problems.
Plus the dems stick with their incumbents and people like Paul Hackett(in MY state of Ohio) and Marcy Winograd who is running against Jane Harmon don't have a real chance of winning and yet these are the very people needed to re-energize the dem party. So the dems are shooting themselves in the foot in so many ways.

Finally I have heard far, far better political verbiage from the progressive/liberal blogosphere than I ever hear from the dem party members and strategists.

It's a very depressing thought to me but it is possible that we have reached the tipping point the omega point the point of no return from which the dems, for a variety of reasons, may not be able to recover.

I sincerely hope I am wrong.

On the subject of journalism and truth: The Robert F. Kennedy piece in Rolling Stone was an embarrassingly shoddy piece of journalism about an incredibly important issue. It is amazing how it keeps getting cited, including by CJR, without the teensiest bit of fact-checking. I highlight a couple of the key factual misstatements (from the nutgraf!) on my blog votingnotes.blogspot.com including links to the EAC and GAO documents for people who are looking for a more informed discussion about what goes wrong with overseas and absentee voting.