OT: Driving a car -> Voting Machines

[Leo J Mauler]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:04:19 -0600 Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at comcast.net>
writes:
> Jim Herrmann wrote:
> 
> > For all the low down on voting machine irregularities and ballot 
> > tampering, check out http://blackboxvoting.com/.  I've got a 
> > really bad feeling about 2004.  When they control the voting 
> > machines and the media, our democracy is doomed, which I 
> > think has already happened. 

> That stuff about controlling the media swings both ways.  I've 
> heard more accusations of the left controlling the media than 
> the right.   

Yes, *accusations*.  And when you include ALL the news media in the
U.S.A., there is a liberal bias.  

But if you take out all the independent, tiny circulation papers and all
the independent TV and radio stations, and look only at the newspapers,
TV stations and radio stations which reach the most people (examples
include USA Today, chain radio stations, nationwide broadcast networks)
you see that the news media which reach the most people are in fact
controlled by conservatives, not liberals.

There are more liberals with newspapers than conservatives, but the
conservatives with newspapers distribute their papers over a wider
audience than the liberals can with their independent weeklies.  Same
goes for television, radio, and even to some extent the Internet.

And even the independents are being bought up by conservative
conglomerates.  Our local liberal weeky "The Pitch" was recently bought
up by a conglomerate.  They seem pretty liberal still, but there are no
guarantees.

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