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Letters

October 12 - 18, 2000 / Vol. 9, Ed. 41

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WOULD YOU LIKE A LITTLE DEMOPUBLICAN WITH YOUR REPUBLICRAT?

Libertarian Presidential Candidate Harry Browne warrants a lot more coverage than you are giving him. Browne consistently polls higher than Pat Buchanan, and often polls higher than Ralph Nader (in the Zogby, Rasmussen and other polls).

Harry Browne’s amazing popularity is humiliating the establishment media.  The media have given ten times more campaign coverage to Buchanan, and even more to Nader.

Browne’s popularity also mocks the media’s pre-campaign relationship with Buchanan and Nader, who have been around for decades, being slavishly covered by the media.

That the CNN/Time poll does not include Harry Browne in its poll is simply another example of the rampant fraudulent journalism that is so common in modern election coverage.

Among a rapidly growing segment of society, the mainstream media are considered transparently fraudulent in their coverage of candidates and campaigns. Whether in print, radio or TV, any news item, debate or photo that involves only the two "demopublican" big-government twins (Bore/Gush) evokes in many intelligent people nothing but contempt and ridicule for the news source.

You could devote the entire election season to covering nothing but rampant bad journalism in all media. Fortunately there are websites, such as www.lp.org, and www.harrybrowne2000.org. (And the article by Alan Bock, which adds more to the same issues).

http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document9d99.html

http://www.usforacle.com/pages/html/20001017/20001017-opinion3.html

Rex Curry
http://rexcurry.net