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It's about reporting the truth. Journalists today have bought into the repuke mantra that there is no such thing as truth. Truth is what you say it is. Like the repukes say we create our own reality. When the media finally catches on, the repukes throw another one out there and the journalists have to unravel that lie too.
For example there was, at an absolute minimum, a clear effort to prevent democrats and minorities from voting in the 2004 election. Repukes used intimidation (Ohio and Florida), misplaced voting machines (Ohio), obscured voting districts (Ohio and Florida), and redistricting (Texas) to prevent those who would clearly vote against corporate interests from voting. There was a deliberate effort which can be observed in the frequent and substantive lawsuits filed against republicans (and leaked memos). But do you hear about these? NO, what you hear is this repuke filed a lawsuit (though latter the suit is thrown out as frivolous) about minor (in one case a car was scratched) voting problems. Then they report the substantive suit filed by the Dems, or others, as if it held equal footing with the trivial complaints by repukes. At the very least it obstructs the truth and "appears" BALANCED. But is it? When you report a frivolous claim alongside a substantive case are you not elevating the frivolous and denigrating the substantive?
But most people don't look into the stories that well and assume well there was cheating on both sides. So the journalist comes off as looking BALANCED while reporting the repuke mantra. Repukes count on the busy reader and overworked reporter to not notice this subtle manipulation. Thank God liberals like to analyze everything.
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