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What's An Electoral Fraud Story Got To Do For Some Love?

 Robert Kennedy Jr.'s much-anticipated Rolling Stone survey of dirty tricks in the 2004 election is finally online (currently loading slowly -- no doubt it's seeing plenty of traffic). At a glance, nothing really new here, much of it already covered in the Conyers report (.pdf). But with such an estimable organ of blandness as Newsweek likewise taking on ballot security, there's some chatter that the imprimatur of a credentialed American aristocrat might actually force it into the mainstream. (Just in time for Bush knocking along at 30% ... how convenient!)  

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06:00 PM Jun 01, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Eventful June

June hails the advent of intern season, and a fistful of prog-tech-nonprofity events with which to festoon your day planner.

June 2:  Al Gore's flick An Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide.  Its relevance to the rehabilitation of Gore's persona and resurrection of his political ambitions have been widely discussed; even before its opening, it's become a sort of progressive public manifesto thanks in no small part to its innovative online marketing.  (Just incidentally, DIA members Stop Global Warming are getting traffic from the flick's web site.)

 

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10:00 AM Jun 01, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Eventful June

June hails the advent of intern season, and a fistful of prog-tech-nonprofity events with which to festoon your day planner.

June 2: Al Gore's flick An Inconvenient Truth opens nationwide. Its relevance to the rehabilitation of Gore's persona and resurrection of his political ambitions have been widely discussed; even before its opening, it's become a sort of progressive public manifesto thanks in no small part to its innovative online marketing. (Just incidentally, DIA members Stop Global Warming are getting traffic from the flick's web site.)

 

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10:00 AM Jun 01, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

And About John Hancock Signing Thomas Jefferson's Declaration...

We mentioned on Monday the overripe accusations of astroturfing which InOpinion has set to brewing.

Given a long weekend to ferment in the fragrant casks of blogontillado, it turns out that not only letters-to-the-editor but write-to-Congress pages too are astroturf -- or rather, "the same sleazy plagiaristic trash". How dare you give a Congressional staffer an accurate expression of your opposition to H.R. 237 not phrased in your own original composition!

 

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08:00 PM May 31, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

They Install FieldTurf These Days

Back from Memorial Day weekend -- where "back" means "still stranded in Ithaca, N.Y. with a balky transmission" -- there's a spot to remark on a piece that caught our eye on the way out the door.

Independent-Minded Conservative (tm) editor David Mastio drops a dime on SaveTheInternet.com for running "astroturf" in the form of a letters-to-the-editor tool -- our tool, as it happens, though it could be anyone's (and he's hit others as well: the nascent naughty list is here).

 

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07:30 PM May 29, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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