Gary Beckwith on TV networks' refusal to release exit poll data

[nmoliver]

http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/what-are-they-hiding-major-television.html

TV Networks Officially Refuse to Release Exit Poll Raw Data; Mainstream media finally displays true colors
by Gary Beckwith
December 22, 2004
For those watching the growing body of evidence concerning election fraud in our past presidential election, one question has remained: Why don't we hear about this on the evening news?
As of yet it's been hard to explain why the controversies in Ukraine make the headlines, but when similar problems are discovered at home, you have to scour the Internet to find the information.
It certainly isn't for lack of events on which to report. Members of The House Judiciary Committee have been meeting regularly reviewing evidence of systematic voter suppression and voting machine tampering. A coalition of lawyers have filed a lawsuit against the Bush campaign citing deliberate manipulation of votes. Sworn testimony and signed affidavits have implicated companies, individuals, and a Florida congressman.
This developing story could eventually turn out to be more explosive than Watergate. But it's rarely mentioned on the major networks, and when it is, there's almost always a chiding remark about the "conspiracy nuts" and obscure "internet bloggers" who are behind it all.
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While it's frustrating that we still can't see the exit polls, let's thank the media for at least resolving one thing for us today. Now we know why we don't see stories about the election on the evening news. Their refusal to release the exit polls shows us categorically that there is a concerted effort on behalf of the major media outlets to consciously prevent the information from getting out. It's not simple oversight, and it's not because they don't think it's newsworthy. Now we know. They are withholding information from us.
Now that that's been resolved, we can move on to the next question: What are they hiding, and why?
http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/what-are-they-hiding-major-television.html

[Old and In the Way]

1. Why didn't the DNC subscribe to this service?

Why on Earth would this party, knowing that corporate media is a functioning arm of the RNC, not get the raw data themselves? Why would they rely on the media to frt the raw evidence?

This should have been a "no brainer".

Tell me Karl Rove didn't have direct access to the exit polls....so why didn't our side?

[EuroObserver]

8. Rove had this kind of access:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3987237.stm

>>Drawing up blueprints for Bush victory
By Rachel Clarke
BBC News, Washington

...Pressure and pranks: By the time election night came around, Mr Rove was in the White House, where, unusually for a political adviser, he has an office. He set up computers in the Old Family Dining Room and started tabulating results. He had set up a massive network of contacts, not just in state capitals, but individual districts and precincts to monitor turnout and support.

Mr Rove may spin the news, but the media still wants to hear him: Early exit polls quoted by media seemed to give Mr Kerry the edge, but colleagues said Mr Rove indicated right away that they did not tally with his information. He used his own data to put Ohio and Florida in the Bush column - bringing cheers from the president and his family when he went into the Roosevelt Room and told them. And when the TV networks gave either Ohio or Nevada to Mr Bush but not both - which would have led him to be declared as the winner - Mr Rove was one of the president's aides who got on the phone to news chiefs to try to pressure them to change their minds...<<

[McCamy Taylor]

2. They are blackmailing the FCC and Bush for favors. It is very simple.

Right now the major news media and their owners can write their own tickets with the Bush administration and they know it.

Of course, after the inauguration, Bush-Cheney-Rove wil be free to take back any promises they have made so I suggest that GE, Time Warner, FOX and all the rest get the most important favors in writing now, cause next year you will be Rove's bitches just like the rest of us.

:puke:

[annabanana]

6. this is a VERY good point

Sooner or later B*sh will try to screw over the omniverous insatiable media machine and that will be pretty much the end of it.

[librechik]

11. don't be silly, they like getting screwed by Shrub

they've been bending over and shaking their asses in his face for years.

[pretzel4gore]

7. they gonna all end up dead they don't watch it...

bush is going down and his minions in the media think they gonna whistle a little tune as they count their money?

[eaprez]

3. Why? You're kidding, right?

Look at who owns the media. A Bush administration is in their best interest. Fox isn't the only one with an agenda --- Fox is just more 'in your face' about it.

[Stand and Fight]

4. Fuck the next question.

Take to the streets and make these sorry candy-asses listen.

[DemReadingDU]

5. Could it be that Kerry doesn't want it released, just yet

When the timing is right, Kerry's team of lawyers will release everything. Hit the media with all evidence of the stolen election so that everyone will see it, hear it, talk about it. Just a thought.

[TexasChick]

9. I don't know. I don't think so, DemReadingDU. Even if Kerry had air-

tight evidence of election fraud, I think the media would still try to squash it because they are highly Republican owned and are looking out for Smirking Chimp. Am I right other DUers? Thoughts?

[Higans]

10. We all ready see it, here it and we are talking about it.

The Media is covering the truth!

http://colorado.indymedia.org/feature/display/9777/index.php