Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps

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November 23, 2004

Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps

by Maureen Farrell

"The greatest threat to truth today may well be from my profession." -- Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/11/12/TopStories/Reporter.Critiques.Todays.Media-802923.shtml%0D

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. While some in the mainstream media were finally paying attention to an important story as it was unfolding (rather than waiting three years, ala the New York Times), others were taking the usual safe and tired tact.

It all started on Monday, Nov. 7, when, inspired by a Cincinnati Enquirer story on how Warren County Ohio officials had "locked down" the administration building on election night and restricted open access to the vote count there, Keith Olbermann began reporting on voting irregularities across the country. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6368819/#041107a "We have heard the message on the Voting Angst and will continue to cover it with all prudent speed," Olbermann later wrote on his blog, and sure enough, Countdown with Keith Olbermann doled out nightly nuggets -- not only concerning Votergate, but regarding the media itself. This exchange between Olbermann and Craig Crawford was especially satisfying:

CRAWFORD: "We're often wimps in the media. And we wait for other people to make charges, one political party or another, and then we investigate it. But this is the time to do this. There's still time before the <2004 election> results are certified. It doesn't mean it will change the outcome. But it is good and I congratulate you for looking at some of these irregularities. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6452480/

OLBERMANN: "I congratulate you for joining me on the crap list for saying that there are wimps in the media. Amen, brother.

(LAUGHTER)

OLBERMANN: We know it and now everybody else knows it.

Was that good for you, too?

While it's true that Mr. Olbermann was recently voted America's "Sexiest Newscaster," the further he strays from the herd, the hotter he gets. "There's a story here, I happen to have a newscast, maybe I should cover it," Olbermann humbly told NPR, sounding a bit like Clark Kent/Superman in the process.

Lest you think my enthusiasm is part and parcel of some nerdish crush, I assure you, it cuts deeper. As a newspaperman's daughter and newspaperwoman's granddaughter, the frustration I've felt these past four years has prompted thoughts and feelings uncomfortably removed from the mainstream. In the summer of 2002, for example, I wrote about the growing number of states linking drivers' license applications to selective service registration and wondered if the U.S. was gearing up for the draft. (I still believe it is). And six months before the start of the war, with neck fully extended, I expressed doubts about the existence of Iraq's WMD. <snip>

BELOW IS A URL HISTORY OF MEDIA WHORE/WIMP IGNORED/IGNORING FACTUAL STORIES FROM THE ARTICLE:

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000641.php

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/09/05_Stepford.html

http://nick.assumption.edu/WebVAX/Foster/AIMmm10Aug95.html

http://mediamatters.org/items/200405210006

http://mediamatters.org/items/200411160006

http://www.ctnow.com/features/lifestyle/hc-wherenow.artnov12,0,4475379,print.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23580-2004Nov3.html

http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/ale04090.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1118-11.htm

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112204A.shtml

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0411/S00225.htm

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3339650/

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/109955354511020.xml

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04028.html

http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater256.html

http://avirubin.com/vote/analysis/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/30/elec04.election.worries/

http://www.votergate.tv/

http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/relatedarticles/19416.php

http://www.onthemedia.org/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6368819/#041119a

http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=3502

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage8.asp

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/11436220p-12350492c.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1116-33.htm

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-22.htm

http://rottendenmark.blogspot.com/

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=4007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38000-2004Nov9.html

http://verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=5213&printsafe=1

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/13/235655/22

http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Public_Affairs/537/yls_article.htm

http://shadowbox.i8.com/stolen.htm#articles

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage8.asp

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6446237/#041111c

http://www.fair.org/media-beat/021029.html

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/111304.html

http://villagenews.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader$10577

http://avirubin.com/vote/

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