Let the Suppression Begin
Jason Evans
Voter ballots in Multnomah County are being subjected to last-minute challenges by "the republicans," according to a gentleman I spoke with on the MAX this morning. His wife received noticed yesterday that her eligibility was being challenged, although she has voted from the same address for the last ten years. She now has to rush to the county offices and submit a new voter registration card. Both she and her husband are registered Democrats.
When I asked him who challenged the ballot, he simply replied "the Republicans." After reading b!X's article on the latest antics of Kelly Clark and his law firm last night, I was able to give this gentleman a clearer picture of who was challenging his wife's ballot and why. He was genuinely saddened by what he heard. We agreed that the only way to change this behavior was to eliminate the power of the Republican Party by reducing its numbers in local, state and national offices.
Additionally, a Green Party voter informed us that this was the first year he was not voting Green. He's voting Blue. We showered him with praise and thanks for seeing the importance of both parties.
I'll be listening to KPOJ and Air America all day today. We'll have three televisions set up tonight at home: one on satellite, one on cable, and one on antenna. I'll also have my laptop at my side...
...along with a bottle of bourbon.
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Nov 2, '04
In the land of the gaudy authentic would be king. Just a note to post the links I like to the wire services.
The AP wire.
The Reuters wire.
Raise a glass to the telegraph founders for their news feed descendants, and access to it which is still all you need to start your own newspaper or broadcast station, and claim to sell 'today's news.' In latter days, (post-WWII), the only change radio technology added was an emergency channel scanner, so broadcasters and city rooms had the raw real-time signals of police and fire dispatches, assigned to the reporters to chase, and the news for sale consisted of writing the 'story' of that accident or crime.
In it the syndicate formed, for good or bad, with wire service subscribers turning the signal around and sending up to wire central the local reporters' local 'emergency scene' stories, which, then, wire subscribers everywhere -- in 'news markets' far removed from the town where the story started -- might run it in headlines, too. If they chose.
IF the real-life person-in-the-job editor chose. Where human nature meets the life road. And still frames the 'news business' today. I scope a day's headlines on one of the wire services -- the full list of stories the 'local news vendor' has to choose from -- and then I look through the next day's paper and see which stories 'they' chose and, in reverse, see which stories 'they' chose not. I look beyond their frame and see its edge.
Here's to the wire services in their success and supply. Let the spin begin.
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