ON TOPICGary T commented on the objectivity his wife's cousin felt existed on the he worked for, reporting on the give and take in deciding how to handle a story or issue. Probably true.
Unsaid, maybe unrealized, is the unconscious censorship that goes on. Teh stories that never make it to the discussion phase because someone decides. "they" wouldn't like it or it might reflect later on promotions. What is reported may be essentially balanced. When compared to what is happening in the World, it may not be. No conspiracy, just simple human fallibility.
OFF TOPIC MORE OR LESS troll,
The link didn't work but a seach of the WorldNetDaily sight for prior articles by Mr. Timmerman suggests he is long somewhat in love with the idea of grand conspiracies and sensationalistic journalism with a Conservative flavor. While this doesn't mean any of his claims regarding the Miami-Dade non-recount are not true. I find the fact that no other element of the media picked up on what is a clear violation of Florida Law, that neither the Gore or Bush legal efforts have even mentioned it and the fact that you believe it to indicate the story may be less than factual.
Paper ballots are .... well .... quaint. And not cheap when you're talking about 50 million voters with dozens of choices on each ballot. And more susceptible to fraud which is why the various automated systems were developed.
My County just did away with butterfly ballots, I talked to our Supervisor of Elections (She's a Democrat, btw). There have always been problems with the butterfly type ballot, usually involving municipal and local elections.
This was the first national election where the problems that everyone knew existed might make a difference. The State of Florida has guidelines on how to deal with the known problems. There were no hard and fast rules laid down about chards and so on. Probably should have been but there weren't.
Upper case L and C was best defined by Ambrose Bierce to the effect that a Conservative is someone enamoured of the existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new evils of his own. We (the US) seem to have a real problem with the idea of a win-win situation. There has to be A Winner an A Loser. Clearly all the other ideologies don't matter. In American politics (and in a lot of American life, the idea of a win-win situation seems un-American. So come up with labels, classify people (deservedly or not) and Win. An unfortunate trend in America seem to be that winning, like money, makes a lot of wrong things magically ?right?
Regards
John