Not That It Was Reported, but Gore Won
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IN JOURNALISM, it's called "burying the lead": A story starts off with what everyone already knows, while the real news - the most surprising, significant or never-been-told-before information - gets pushed down where people are less likely to see it.
That's what happened to the findings of the media study of the uncounted votes from last year's Florida presidential vote. A consortium of news outlets - including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tribune Co. (Newsday's parent company), The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and CNN - spent nearly a year and $900,000 reexamining every disputed ballot.
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Of course, this is all nice and dandy for voters that could actually vote, but for far too many, that simply wasn't the case. As the BBC reporter, Greg Palast, discovered and detailed in the 1st chapter of his book, _The Best Democracy Money Can Buy_, over 90,000 voters, mostly Blacks and Hispanics, were wrongly barred from voting in the Florida election by Florida Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, and Jeb Bush in an election "officially" determined by only 537 votes. Too bad the U.S. corporate media didn't find this fit to print either...
http://www.gregpalast.com/contents.htm