There is strong evidence of vote theft in Ohio. That will be news to
anyone who gets their news from a television or from most print media.
When forced to talk about ethics, media big shots often insist that
they draw no conclusions. They endlessly reported Dick Cheney's claims
that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, but
it would not have been their place to label that a "conspiracy theory."
When it comes to election fraud in Ohio and other U.S. states, on the
other hand, the media has jumped straight to reporting that it's all a
"conspiracy theory" before ever reporting any of the facts. The Bush
Administration has recently presented the media with a nutty theory
that our Social Security system is broken, which the media in turn has
presented to us as established fact. But to anyone who reads more than
just the news that's fit to print, it's our election system that has
broken down. Some voices in the media, including the New York Times'
editorial page, admit that the election system is badly broken. But
they insist that it also functioned quite acceptably in November. It's
broken in the abstract, as it were, but not in any concrete time or
place. As the ILCA reported on November 8th, the U.S. media has
reversed its usual position on the value of exit polls. The media
has always relied on exit polls to predict election outcomes and to
question the accuracy of official vote counts, such as in the
Venezuelan recall attempt or the Ukrainian presidential election. Exit
polls in November predicted victories for Kerry in a number of swing
states that swung, in the official results, dramatically for Bush. The
U.S. media immediately declared the exit polls inaccurate. How they
could be so far off has not been explained, and the networks' refusal
to turn the raw data of the exit polls over to Congress doesn't help. [more]