election
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE ART OF LOOKING PRIME MINISTERIAL – THE 2010 UK GENERAL ELECTION
On April 15, news media broadcast the first of three live, 90-minute “prime ministerial debates” between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the leaders, respectively, of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. By the end of the second debate on April 22, the word ‘Iraq’ had been mentioned a total of five times… Continue reading
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LONGVIEW: Deer Hunting With Jesus
Much has been said about white working-class voters. But those who’ve been doing all the talking are pollsters and political operatives. As part of our Long View series, ANP traveled to rural Virginia to talk to someone who’s lived the life and knows from personal experience what those voters are thinking — author Joe Bageant.… Continue reading
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Iran: Reply to the Campaign for Peace and Democracy By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
The Campaign for Peace and Democracy has chosen to interpret our “Riding the ‘Green Wave'” article as a “vitriolic and dishonest attack” on its authors, and an “offensive impugning of [their] integrity.” In fact, it is nothing of the sort. Instead, it is concerned with issues of central importance to the left in the United… Continue reading
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Media Lens 9 July, 2009: Hired Hands – Part 2: Reporting Elections In Iran And Iraq
The call for a “louder voice” of outrage from the West over the Iranian elections could hardly be more ironic. Consider the media response to the January 2005 elections in Iraq that took place under superpower military occupation in conditions of extreme violence. In Iraq the Iraqi interim government had forced the independent al-Jazeera TV… Continue reading
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Mark Weisbrot, "Was the Iranian Election Stolen? Does It Matter?"
Does it matter if the election was stolen? Certainly there are grounds for challenging the overall legitimacy of the electoral process, in which the government determines which candidates can compete, and the press and other institutions are constrained. Continue reading
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ONLY 5% OF THE POPULATION IS READY TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS IN HAITI, REVEALS A SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE HAITIAN PRIORITIES PROJECT …
Only 5% of the population is ready to cast their ballots in Haiti, reveals a survey conducted by the Haitian Priorities Project. if Fanmi Lavalas was admitted to participate in the elections on april 19 2009, the participation rate would be at 85% Continue reading
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Were the voting machines rigged?
1 December, 2008 WASHINGTON, Dec 01, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — In an exclusive interview with Velvet Revolution (”VR”), a DC based non-profit dedicated to a clean and accountable government, a former Diebold vote machine contractor who was in charge of preparing the 2002 election between Saxby Chambliss and Max Cleland has stated that the… Continue reading
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10 Surprising Stories About Election ‘08
FairVote’s Election Analyses & Prescriptions for the Future Dear Friend of Fair Elections, We thought we’d share our view of this historic election through ten surprising stories about Election ’08. They are: Electoral Reform on the Ballot – New Victories and Implementations for Instant Runoff Voting The 2008 Spoiler Effect – Key Non-Majority Winners (and… Continue reading
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Kevin Zeese: Messy Elections: Can We Trust The Results?
For a country that considers itself the ‘greatest democracy on Earth,’ the U.S. sure does run messy elections. This year about one-third the public is voting early (something Marylanders will be voting on in a referendum on Election Day), as a result we are seeing election meltdowns in slow motion. Here is a sample of… Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: More Than a Two-Person Race
While the major-party race for the White House has been the subject of broad media attention for more than a year, the corporate media have mostly ignored at least four substantial third-party and independent candidates for the presidency. Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign ’08 20 October, 2008
Corporate media coverage of election 2008 has fallen into the well-documented pattern (Extra!, 5-6/08) of reporting on the election as if it were a horse-race rather than a democratic process in which real issues were at stake. Not only do journalists organize the election story around the question–not terribly helpful to voters–of who’s up and… Continue reading
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Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate By William Bowles
And as long as Mugabe left Britain’s ‘kith and kin’ alone (the settler farmers), it was quite happy to let Zanu-PF spout all kinds of socialist rhetoric, as long as he didn’t actually implement any of it. Thus all the statements out of the West about the ‘miracle’ of Zimbabwe, the ‘bread basket’ of Southern… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: ALL SMOKE, NO FIRE – THE NATIONAL JOURNAL SMEARS THE LANCET
January 22, 2008 MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media Last year, we described how mainstream climate sceptics had queued up to praise film-maker Martin Durkin’s now infamous documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and their counterparts in the United States, used the film to… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 