Dan Rathers on CNN Voting Machine Fraud and Media Dumbing Us

[Habitually233]

No facts. No truth, the Dan Rathers way.

This guy is an absolute joke. They want the government to bailout the New York Times and all these crappy newspapers...

The media wants to prove that it is relevant and powerful. They are such an arrogant-sick bunch of people.

The veil has been lifted, we the people now realize that we can be our own jounralist. We the people, don't need this elite media to direct us how to vote, how to think, how to act, et cetera.

[ZEROEVILDARKCOOL]

I AGREE WITH DAN RATHER ON THIS

[AllinBlind]

If a touchscreen doesn't register the right candidate, it isn't calibrated properly. It is a simple fix. Plus you see that it registered the wrong person and you can fix it easily enough.

Electronic voting machines have no more problems than any other voting system, which includes Pen and Paper.

[hackingdemocracy]

To Allinblind - electronic voting has now been completely discredited by scientists, hackers and Secretaries of State. In our HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" our hacker rigged the votes undetectably on Florida's Diebold computerised system system - proof that it is wide open to fraud more dangerous than could be achieved with a purely paper based system. Do some research!

[SP567]

DAN RATHER,

You're wasting your time. Nobody cares. The same thing happened to me last week voting. I touched and marked one thing. When I happened to touch Review at the end, the exact opposite had been recorded. Really.

I'm not stupid. I can run this computer and type this can't I. Then I found out I'm in the state that the votes don't count anyway. I couldn't believe it. Take it back. I am stupid.

[MflashNoob2]

shouldnt have gone electronic. now they can change anything.

[dominicrichfield]

at least in the usa your votes dont count in a civilised way.its nice live the dream!try vote fraud pakistan style..look what they do to the opposition!!!KABOOOOM problem eliminated.

[bigjon1359]

check out this

wheresthepaper dot org

[cyclesurfer]

It is interesting that vigilanties started in San Franscisco after ballot box stuffing and the citizens could no longer trust the government to punish wrong dooers. The commitee of vigilance was founded who hung wrongdoers. When thee federal govt tried to intervien the couldn't because all of the citizens were vigilence members and no one would co-operate. We need grass roots political vigilatees on a large scale.

[waluum]

As much as I respect Rather for his comments about the dumbing-down of the media, it doesn't matter if every anchor or journalism screams it from the mountain tops and it never will. The only thing that will change anything is when they start standing up and denying and denouncing the decisions of those who write what they report on, and those who direct them on what to write. Until then nothing has changed and nothing will.

[lidixmang]

The internet, blogging and the independent press will replace MSM giants. It could take 3 generations, but eventually, people will get their information from 100 independent sources, rather than 10 corporations.

[waluum]

We have a habit of predicting things based on the first level of the future that we can imagine, but as long as we're speculating I will go further and say that I disagree. I believe that the current media system will not be lost, but will rather adapt, and be forced to if they want to enjoy any of the same kinds of profits that they are used to...

[waluum]

...The way that we perceive television will be revolutionized in the future with IP (we're already seeing it move that way with landline phones). Imagine blog-quality (quality in terms of accuracy and scope of insight) news being broadcast over the internet, enabling you to watch with far better quality than YouTube and far more control than your current cable systems...

[787Bisurdaddy]

Blogs are not quality news sources. Internet news sites are quality news sources. Blogs are typically someone just summarizing an article and reposting it, or posting their opinion out of their ass.  It's scary to think that people might be getting their news from blogs.

[waluum]

I don't think that you and I have the same blogs in mind. There are many citizen journalists who run blogs, chasing down facts and doing more serious investigating than most mainstream news sources. But it's a matter of finding them, and when you do they often prove very valuable. But I agree with you about the types of blogs that you seem to be referring to.

[waluum]

...You can also be sure that independent media will rise to take the place of all organizations that deny the people what they seek - freedom and truth. Don't confuse this, though, and call it a technological revolution (though by all means technology will be revolutionized in the future beyond the imagination of most right now). Technology is merely a catalyst for this social change, which is itself not much more than the desire for an increase in liberties...

[waluum]

...Blogs and independent press will take the place of "old media" if they do not adapt to times and realize the social change that is innevitable and is already happeneing, but it will be much more revolutionary than a simple blog that you read when you get home from work, or a news article that someone emails to you. It's going to be much more involved than that.

[787Bisurdaddy]

Again... the world is in trouble if it resorts to blogs for its news.

[underaserpentsun]

couldn't be worse than it already is..

[RBLA818]

"It's not who votes that counts; it's who counts the votes."

--Joseph Stalin

[sLeepPastNooN]

This next election is Government vs. the People. Dems=Repubs

[nbwulf]

It's so dumb they bring up the Katie Couric thing again. It's this transparent crap that makes more and more viewers (and advertisers) want to have nothing to do with the news.

[787Bisurdaddy]

Right, the very fact that they're talking about Rather's comments about Couric illustrate, exactly, the point about news becoming celebrity gossip.