CDR: Reporting weirdness: Hagelin vs. Browne
On CNN I watched the election results coming in. They always listed four candidates: Bush, Gore, Nader, and Hagelin. The usual format was Bush/Gore on the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen and then a second page with the crawl having Nader/Hagelin. Sometimes Buchanan was listed. It sure looked like Hagelin was doing better than Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate. Well, here's what the "Washington Post" is reporting as the nearly final tally for the lesser candidates: Harry Browne (Lib.) 0 373,109 0 Howard Phillips (CST) 0 98,224 0 John Hagelin (NLP) 0 87,914 0 James Harris (SWP) 0 11,190 0 L. Neil Smith (Lib.) 0 5,181 0 Monica Moorehead (WW) 0 4,245 0 David McReynolds (Soc.) 0 4,097 0 I guess it was "natural law" that caused CNN (and perhaps other networks) to report on Hagelin over Browne. The Libertarian Party should request a "Do-over!" like the Palm Beach Jews are now demanding. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote:
On CNN I watched the election results coming in. They always listed four candidates: Bush, Gore, Nader, and Hagelin. The usual format was Bush/Gore on the "crawl" at the bottom of the screen and then a second page with the crawl having Nader/Hagelin.
Sometimes Buchanan was listed.
It sure looked like Hagelin was doing better than Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate.
Well, here's what the "Washington Post" is reporting as the nearly final tally for the lesser candidates:
Harry Browne (Lib.) 0 373,109 0 Howard Phillips (CST) 0 98,224 0 John Hagelin (NLP) 0 87,914 0 James Harris (SWP) 0 11,190 0 L. Neil Smith (Lib.) 0 5,181 0 Monica Moorehead (WW) 0 4,245 0 David McReynolds (Soc.) 0 4,097 0
Browne was the un-canidate in this election. The press went out of their way to avoid mentioning or reporting on him in any way, shape or form. When Harry Browne held a rally in Portland, the Oregonian (the newspaper for Portland) did not mention it at all. Buchannon (who gets MUCH less of the vote here than just about anyone) recieved much more press than he did. Maybe it is because he is not a member of the New Bavarian Conspiracy, the Conspiracy of Bavarian Seers, or the Ancient Baverian Conspiracy. It is similar to what happened with Measure 3 here. Measure 3 requires that they actually convict a person before walking off with everything he owned. During the election coverage, there was no mention of it even being on the ballot. I had to go to a web site that had the totals. It won by a 2 to 1 vote, yet was not declared as winning until the next morning, long after ballot measures with similar margins had been declared as having passed. And it was not just one station or newspaper that did it either. It was ignored by every station that I watched that night. (Which was most of them, because they kept repeating themselves after a while.) alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:40:10AM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
Browne was the un-canidate in this election. The press went out of their way to avoid mentioning or reporting on him in any way, shape or form.
Yes, and no. We profiled him at Wired; I mentioned him in about seven articles. LA Times did a front-page story. Etc. A better question might be was his coverage (what there was) fair or biased? -Declan
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