What Are They Hiding??? (the media)

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http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/what-are-they-hiding-major-television.html


What Are They Hiding??? Major television networks refuse to release data to Congressional inquiry

The Columbus Free Press reports that the major television networks have refused to cooperate with the request by Congressman Conyers's panel for thier exit poll data. http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1044
This all important article by the Free Press is here reprinted in full:

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Attempts to get an explanation from the media have been met with cold and evasive responses. Local media outlets say it's not their duty to report the national news. National media people say there's not enough evidence yet, and they're waiting to see how it pans out before they give it the spotlight. This begs the question: Do we wait until the Superbowl is over to report on it? Did they wait until the OJ trial was over to report on it?

But as the story develops, no one has been able to explain why the media is avoiding it like the plague.

Until today.

Yesterday Representative John Conyers called their bluff. He's the one leading the investigation in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. After weeks of investigation he's become more and more interested in seeing the raw data of the exit polls. Exit polls were a red flag in Ukraine, and many statistical experts have used the exit polls from our election to demonstrate a high likelihood that there was some funny business on November 2nd.

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While it's frustrating that we still can't see the exit polls, let's thank the media for at least resolving one thing for us today. Now we know why we don't see stories about the election on the evening news. Their refusal to release the exit polls shows us categorically that there is a concerted effort on behalf of the major media outlets to consciously prevent the information from getting out. It's not simple oversight, and it's not because they don't think it's newsworthy. Now we know. They are withholding information from us.

Now that that's been resolved, we can move on to the next question: What are they hiding, and why?
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whose afraid of the big bad wolf

[InvisibleBallots]

1. an example of the corporate media's complicity with Bush

The exit polls show a win by Kerry, therefore, the exit polls will not be released. Sound familiar? Remember the FL 2000 vote count done by the NYT/LAT/WP/WSJ? They were supposed to come out right after 911 - they showed that Gore had won Florida, so they were supressed.

Same old story, nothing to see here.

[Liberty Belle]

2. Please forward this to local & international media.

We also need to cut and paste this into e-mails to the mainstream media.

Can't their actions be considered obstruction of justice?

Maybe we should send to their legal departments and stress that point; also to the investor relations execs to point out how this could impact stock prices as word of the networks' obstructionist tacatics gets out.

[Lorien]

4. And to Howard Stern

he seems to be one of the few voices in the media willing to actually stand up to some of the BushCo /media lies.

[MsConduct]

3. Thanks for the info and the links. We all know that our 'free press'

isn't free anymore. We need to boycott all the media that isn't telling us the whole story, or the whole truth. Just my 2 cents of course, don't know what it'll get you. LOL

[Old and In the Way]

5. They are unindicted co-conspirators in the propping up of the rotting

corporate carcass of what was once known as the Republican Party.