Subverting Democracy Through Electoral Fraud (tags)
Rigged election show democracy is pure fantasy.
Burying the Lead: Democracy Denied by Jim Naureckas (tags)
So how did the media report the results of the ballot reexamination? Overwhelmingly, they chose to lead with the news that was comfortable, uncontroversial-- and seven months old. "In Election Review, Bush Wins Without Supreme Court Help," was The Wall Street Journal's headline on its story, paralleling The New York Times' "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote." That angle would be fine if you believed that the Supreme Court was the most important aspect of the story; but what about the presidency?
Burying the Lead: Democracy Denied by Jim Naureckas (tags)
So how did the media report the results of the ballot reexamination? Overwhelmingly, they chose to lead with the news that was comfortable, uncontroversial-- and seven months old. "In Election Review, Bush Wins Without Supreme Court Help," was The Wall Street Journal's headline on its story, paralleling The New York Times' "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote." That angle would be fine if you believed that the Supreme Court was the most important aspect of the story; but what about the presidency?