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                                             November 29, 2006

  Mark Crispin Miller
  complains that not
  only did the mainstream
  press ignore a lot of
  the problems with the
  2004 election, the                 LAST_EXIT_FOR_DEMOCRACY
  liberal press was
  very weak on the subject.

  "Mother Jones" and "Salon"
  both ran sing-them-to-sleep              The Mother Jones story
  stories, and there was silence           was by Mark Hertsgaard:
  from many other quarters.
                                           [ref]
  He asks a litany of "where was"
  questions, something like:
  "Where was The Nation?
   Where was Z Magazine?"

   And leads up to:
   "Where was Amy Goodman, for
    that matter..."

         After the one debate
         between Miller and Hertsgaard,
         she dropped the story.

                          [ref]

"Democracy Now", for all it's
excellence in many directions,        As is not
has some limitations...               surprising:
                                      it's a very
  One of the problems is              small team.
  that Amy Goodman doesn't
  really have a technical
  background, and when she
  gets near a technical
  subject, all she can
  really do is bring in           E.g. a debate between
  representatives of              the makers of the "Loose
  competing sides and have        Change" documentary and
  them face off.                  the editors of "Popular
                                  Science".

     That works tolerably well,
     but then there's no way
     she can really do follow-up          Did she even mention
     on the story.                        the RFK story that
                                          appeared in "The Rolling
        She did, however, return          Stone"?
        to subject of election
        irregularities immediately           (Just once, as far as I
        before the 2006 election --          can tell from web searches,
        when it was too late to              in an interview question.)
        make any changes.

     Notably, Steven Freeman was
     never invited on the show,
     (though I've heard Bleifuss
     interviewed on another show
     on KPFA).

                                      Ah, but as of January 13, 2006
                                      she's got a 'network neutrality'
                                      story... I was wondering if she
                                      would cover that.



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