Did the networks cover the electoral challenge?

[Smarmie Doofus]

And to what extent? I missed all the news yesterday 'cept Nightline, which was about Gonzales.

Was there any coverage at all? Besides the cables, that is.

Sad to say... but if it doesn't make the nat'l network news, it never happened for most folks.

[babylonsister]

1. I watched ABC. Peter Jennings had a 2-sentence

synopsis, and that was it. Did not even mention the historic significance.

[sniffa]

2. what's this have to do with jacko?

[htuttle]

3. I watched CBS News yesterday evening

They skipped it entirely. No mention at all.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Why would they cover something so trivial?

Only one Senator protested the Ohio vote. And besides her party won't even exist by the time the next mid-term elections are over.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Keee-rist . In other words, for most people, they would have to....

find-out that it even HAPPENED via their local TV, radio news, or... even less likely... newspaper.

That's amazing. Maybe most of the the $$$$ boycott sentiment here and elsewhere should focus less on Republican contributors and more on corporate sponsors of TV disinformation?

Just an idea; but that would seem to be the more *fundamental* problem.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. If the Democrats had stood together it might have merited ...

more coverage. But they didn't. Like I said it was deemed trivial because there was only one Senator that protested. Don't blame the media on this one. If you want media coverage you have to do something to warrant it.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. I'm not so sure it was "trivial"....

If thirty-odd memebers of congress, including one senator, publicly challenge the integrity of a state's presidential election process, and THAT state determined the outcome of the election NATIONALLY....?

That's not worth a *mention* ? Come on, now. I'm sure there must have been an item or two on Rather's broadcast last night that would have scored lower on the triviality index.

By contrast, today's NY Times... on the *front* page describes an " extroadinary two-hour debate in only the second such challenge to a presidential race since 1877."

Problem is, fewer than 1 million people will see that. In any case, it ain't "trivial", and while I'm happy to blame the cowardice of DEMS also, the disinformation that's disseminated to the general public ... in this case disinformation in the form of no information at all...is more likely the egg. The wimpiness of DEMs is the chicken.

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. Bad choice of words at the end... no offense.