[lbo-talk] Ohio? no story!

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Mon Jun 12 17:58:35 PDT 2006


At around 12/6/06 7:43 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Editor & Publisher Online - June 12, 2006
>
> Some Ohio Editors and Reporters Criticize 'Rolling Stone' Story on 2004
> Alleged Vote Fraud
>
> <...>
>
> But for many in Ohio who covered the presidential race, which was not
> decided until the following morning after John Kerry gave up any attempt
> at challenging the Ohio results, the Rolling Stone allegations are
> unfounded.
>
> "We looked at the Rolling Stone piece and we didn't see anything new in
> there," says Eva Parziale...
>
> Carl Weiser, government and public affairs editor for the Cincinnati
> Enquirer, agreed. "I read it and nothing in there was really new," ...
>
> But that hasn't stopped the Kennedy piece from raising interest among
> others in the newspaper world, particularly on the editorial page, even
> before the Herbert column.
>

Yeah, how amazing that the *opinion* of a bunch of dudes, who couldn't take credit for breaking a story that was happening in their backyard, does not prevent people from finding interesting a long, detailed article that actually tries to present some reasoning in favour of its thesis! "Logic and reasoning are so pre-Bush", they added in their weighty two sentence opinion!


> Joe Hallett, a longtime political reporter and columnist at the Columbus
> (Ohio) Dispatch and previously the Plain Dealer, took his own shot at
> Kennedy's theories in a Sunday column. He declared that "Democrats still
> haven't met the burden of proof" that the election was stolen.

Pressed on his mandate, as a reporter, to uncover the truth, he scoffed at the idea, "What's in it for me?", he exclaimed with indignation, "The Democrats can reach me at Harry's non-stop Go Go Rama if they come up with any proof. Of course by proof, I mean a really strongly worded opinion... not pesky logic".


> Weiser of the Enquirer adds that Kennedy's obvious Democratic leanings
> do not help the validity of his story. "If a major Republican was saying
> this, I might be paying more attention to it," he says.

That is if they manage to grab me before happy hour. After that, its all about the babes, you know what I am saying?

--ravi

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