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Picture This: Florida Ballot Papers
This San Francisco Chronicle graphic (November 8, 2000) highlights the controversial Florida ballot papers.
After Bush-Gore: Lawsuits, Conspiracy Theories, and an Isolated Left
This Village Voice article (November 8, 2000) by James Ridgeway captures the conspiracy fever that grips America after the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
What the Monitors Saw
This OneWorld forum posting (November 8, 2000), by MediaTenor.com chief editor Roland Schatz, reveals some disturbing biases in US media coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign.
Media Tenor: US Election 2000
"Media Channel's exclusive tracking of international news coverage of the American elections is produced weekly by Media Tenor, an international media monitoring firm that analyses the content of 60 newspapers and magazines worldwide. Major TV news programs in the United States are also reviewed for this report."
'Miami Was the Site of the Biggest Ballot Fraud in Recent U.S. History'
This Time magazine story (November 8, 2000), by Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett, features some crucial analysis of the controversial Palm Beach ballot.
Florida Department of State Division of Election
Depending on your point of view, this is either the best source for information on the Florida recount, or the Conspiracy Nation's new ground zero.
This Election is Brought to You by . . .
This Salon article (November 7, 2000), by Katharine Mieszkowski, uncovers corporate funding of elections. Shock! Horror! Salon finally catches up with the conspiracy/underground culture . . . two years too late.
Al Martin Raw
The Iran/Contra insider offers a unique view of what the White House presided over by George W. Bush will be like: "a government of shadowly cliques, secret commissions and defacto star chambers."
Sightings: Constitutional Crisis
This Sightings radio show (November 8, 2000) features interviews with Glonnie Wolf (election analysis), James Condit Jr (Votescam in Florida), and Sherman Skolnick (Constitutional Crisis). Hosted by Jeff Rense. RealAudio. 3 hours.
Election 2000: FAIR Resources
If you feel the 2000 U.S. presidential election received dubious media coverage, this helpful collection from Fairness & Accuracy In Media will fuel your paranoia.
'We're in a Constitutional Crisis'
This Salon roundtable (November 8, 2000), conducted by Amy Stanton, Janelle Brown and Daryl Lindsey, captures a spectrum of responses to the Florida recount and media coverage of the 2000 US presidential campaign.
Who's Free Press? Media Consolidation and Democracy
In this incisive discussion, transcribed from an on-air show broadcast by the National Radio Project, several media analysts discuss the growing concentration of the news industry into fewer and fewer hands and the threat this poses to an Open Society.
Late Night with Al and Dubya
This American Journalism Review article (November 7, 2000), by Sharyn Wizda, presciently critiques the major television network coverage of the 2000 US presidential campaign.
Full Recount in Florida Will Determine Presidency
This Washington Post article (November 8, 2000) by Charles Babington and Dan Balz details the Florida recount, and examines Pat Buchanan's role.
Feed Daily: November 8th, 2000
This Feed magazine article (November 8, 2000), by Evan Shapiro, considers Florida's legacy of fraudulent elections.
Voteless in Florida
This Mother Jones article (November 8, 2000) uncovers more errors in the Florida elections: "Thousands of Florida residents were struck from the voter lists because they were mistakenly identified as ex-felons, just months before what has become the closest election in US history. With Bush apparently leading Gore by only hundreds of votes, in a state with hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters, could similar errors be tipping the race?"
Portrait of America
An interesting collection of demographic data about the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign.
Bush Wins Papers on Sale at Ebay
This CNN news article (November 8, 2000), by Gwendolyn Mariano and Evan Hansen, captures how election night havoc created collector items. Also contains some interesting facts about the Florida recount: "Major news organizations followed with the same results after the polls closed but retracted the Florida result when it came to light that technical glitches had skewed the original numbers."
Bush or Gore, It's Trippy Either Way
This Salon interview (November 8, 2000), by Carina Chocano, with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, successfully skirts the thin line between satire and the surreal truth.
Don't Blame Ralph
This Nation article (November 8, 2000), by Katha Pollitt, compellingly argues that Ralph Nader should be exonerated for splitting the progressive vote. We suggest you blame the infamous car seatbelts decision instead.
Indecision 2000
This Nation editorial (November 8, 2000) chronicles the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign's bizarre outcome: "What if they held a presidential election and neither guy won? Or a dead man from Missouri defeated an incumbent Republican senator? Or two gazillionaire Democrats picked up crucial Senate seats for the party of the working class? Or the two major parties spent $3 billion to accomplish this muddled outcome?"
Some Florida Ballots Illegal, Dems Say
This Salon magazine article (November 8, 2000) examines the controversial Palm Beach County ballot papers, and hints at conspiracy theories. Chris Carter and James Cameron's jobs are safe for now.
Jesse Jackson Questions Florida Voting
This Salon magazine article (November 8, 2000), by Alicia Montgomery, chronicles Reverend Jesse Jackson's mission to find the truth about the Florida vote.
Sunshine Psychosis
This Salon magazine article (November 8, 2000), by Andrew Leonard, claims to be a sociological study of Apocalypse Culture in Florida. Well, we can answer his question "Where does Florida's pent-up craziness escape to?" can't we?
Ben Affleck:
This Salon roundtable (November 8, 2000), compiled by Amy Reiter, features Ben Fleck, Sigourney Weaver, Tina Brown, Arianna Huffington and a bunch of other would-be Bohemians discussing the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign cliffhanger. Arianna Huffintgton asks: "Why didn't these comments come out in the middle of the campaign? And why didn't journalists asks the candidates about them? Why did we lock ourselves into the issues that they wanted to talk about?" Because they're not Hunter S. Thompson, are they?
Florida: 'Don't Look at Me!'
This Salon article (November 8, 2000), by Chris Colin, hints at the psychological dynamics of the Florida recount: a scapegoat for our fears?
Ballot Schmallot!
This Salon article (November 8, 2000), by David Tuller, chronicles the new defenders of American democracy: elderly Jewish ladies.
Holding on to Hope
This Salon article (November 8, 2000), by Alicia Montgomery, is a portrait of Al Gore's team on the fateful day American presidential politics changed forever.
From 'Snippy' to 'Upbeat'
This Salon article (November 8, 2000), by Jake Tapper, captures George W. Bush's election night tactics to deal with media flak.
President Without a Mandate
This Salon article (November 8th, 2000), by Anthony York, debates what George W. Bush will do if he wins the electoral college vote, thanks to the Florida recount. Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore.
Eyes Wide Open
This Ironminds.com article (November 8, 2000), by James Morrow, argues that the close 2000 U.S. presidential campaign result may be good in the longterm for the Republic.
Flipping a Coin
This Ironminds.com article (November 9, 2000), by Will Leitch, offers proof that football analogies still rule election analysis journalism: "The election is not incredibly close because both candidates are so outstanding that voters just can’t decide; it's that neither excites voters at all, so they might as well be flipping a coin."
Fun with Numbers
This Slate article (November 8, 2000), by Michael Kinsley, offers some perceptive analysis of the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign as a numbers game.
All Eyes on Florida Election Site
This Wired News article (November 8, 2000), by Michelle Delio, explains how the Internet gained brief ascendency over the major television networks for a day.
The Parties Must Go On
This Wired News article (November 8, 2000), by Declan McCullagh, Kathleen Ellis and Nicholas Morehead, shows what happens when the Wired team go to one election night party too many.
Why Do You Say Gore When You Mean Bush?
This Slate article (November 8, 2000), by Emily Yoffe, deploys semantic substitution to analyze the perceptual similarities between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
Behind the Scenes at Time
This Slate article (November 7, 2000), by Joel Stein, captures the election night atmosphere at Time magazine: the calm before the storm.
Military Voters May Pick Next President
This Military.com article (November 8, 2000), by Bradley Peniston, Stephen Trimble and Richard Weaver, noted that military voters may influence the 2000 US presidential campaign outcome. This article sparked outrage on several major parapolitics and conspiracy Web sites.
It's Bush! . . . Or Is It?
This WorldNetDaily.com article (November 8, 2000) mediates on the election night havoc that plagued major news outlets.
Bacon Denies WND Military-ballot Report
This WorldNetDaily.com article (November 8, 2000), by Jon E. Dougherty, quotes Pentagon sources denying that military voters will change the 2000 US presidential election outcome.
More Questions Arise in Florida
This WorldNetDaily.com article (November 9, 2000), by Julie Foster, notes further voting inconsistencies in Flordia.
Exclusive: Gore Lawyers Plan Suit to Overturn Bush Victory
This Newsmax.com article (November 8, 2000), by Jack Thompson, warns that Al Gore's lawyers are preparing to sue George W. Bush and the Republican Party over the Florida vote. Thompson writes: "The suit is expected to be filed within the next 24 hours and will apparently be a request by the Gore forces to get state officials in Florida to decertify, or declare invalid, the election."
Why the Predictors Got it Wrong
This Slate article (November 8, 2000) shows why political pundits are not to be trusted. Could this be the end for Mickey Kaus?
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