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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 1024522" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]<strong>Media Shows Pervasive Bias When Covering Voter ID</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong><p style="text-align: left"><strong>On J</strong><span style="font-size: 9px"><strong>uly 30, 2012, Huffington Post Senior Washington Correspondent Dan Froomkin issued a clarion call to the news media, imploring them to eschew journalistic integrity and attack those who support voter integrity laws.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="color: #cc0000"><em>[SUP]1[/SUP]</em></span>[/FONT]</strong> Froomkin claimed that "[v]oter fraud simply isn't a problem in this country," and that new state-level voter ID laws are "attack<s> on the very notion of democracy... poll tax[es] with a new twist."[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="color: #cc0000"><em>[SUP]2[/SUP]</em></span>[/FONT] Ample evidence suggests that Froomkin's plea to the media was unnecessary and redundant. The American media consistently denigrates voter integrity measures and vilify those who seek to secure elections.</s></span></p><p><s> </s></p><p style="text-align: left"><s><span style="font-size: 9px">Since 2011, 37 states have passed or considered some form of voter integrity measure.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="color: #cc0000"><em>[SUP]3[/SUP]</em></span>[/FONT] Many of these laws require photo identification for in-person voting.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="color: #cc0000"><em>[SUP]4[/SUP]</em></span>[/FONT] <strong>While the majority of Americans consider these laws commonsense fraud-prevention measures,[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="color: #cc0000"><em>[SUP]5[/SUP]</em></span>[/FONT] the mainstream media has engaged in a systematic effort to demonize voter ID. </strong></span></p><p></s></p><p style="text-align: left"><s><span style="font-size: 9px"><strong>The media<strong> use</strong> three primary tactics to attack voter ID laws: rhetoric, flawed data and selective coverage. The media claim that voter integrity measures are racist, Jim Crow-era voter suppression laws aimed at disenfranchising poor, elderly and monitory voters. Givin</strong>g an academic veneer to these claims, the media rely on biased work by the Brennan Center for Justice, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, News21, the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal groups. Finally, the media often ignore two primary facts about voter ID: the American people overwhelmingly support voter ID laws, and the United States Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that state-level voter ID laws can be constitutional.</span></p></s></p><p style="text-align: left"><s><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p></s></p><p style="text-align: left"><s><span style="font-size: 9px"><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA641.html" target="_blank">Media Shows Pervasive Bias When Covering Voter ID</a></span></p><p>[/SIZE][/FONT]</s></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 1024522, member: 25159"] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1][B]Media Shows Pervasive Bias When Covering Voter ID [/B][LEFT][B]On J[/B][SIZE=1][B]uly 30, 2012, Huffington Post Senior Washington Correspondent Dan Froomkin issued a clarion call to the news media, imploring them to eschew journalistic integrity and attack those who support voter integrity laws.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#cc0000][I][SUP]1[/SUP][/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] Froomkin claimed that "[v]oter fraud simply isn't a problem in this country," and that new state-level voter ID laws are "attack[s] on the very notion of democracy... poll tax[es] with a new twist."[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#cc0000][I][SUP]2[/SUP][/I][/COLOR][/FONT] Ample evidence suggests that Froomkin's plea to the media was unnecessary and redundant. The American media consistently denigrates voter integrity measures and vilify those who seek to secure elections.[/s][/SIZE][s][/s][/LEFT][s] [LEFT][SIZE=1]Since 2011, 37 states have passed or considered some form of voter integrity measure.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#cc0000][I][SUP]3[/SUP][/I][/COLOR][/FONT] Many of these laws require photo identification for in-person voting.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#cc0000][I][SUP]4[/SUP][/I][/COLOR][/FONT] [B]While the majority of Americans consider these laws commonsense fraud-prevention measures,[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#cc0000][I][SUP]5[/SUP][/I][/COLOR][/FONT] the mainstream media has engaged in a systematic effort to demonize voter ID. [/B][/SIZE][/LEFT][B][SIZE=1][/SIZE][/B] [LEFT][SIZE=1][B]The media[B] use[/B] three primary tactics to attack voter ID laws: rhetoric, flawed data and selective coverage. The media claim that voter integrity measures are racist, Jim Crow-era voter suppression laws aimed at disenfranchising poor, elderly and monitory voters. Givin[/B]g an academic veneer to these claims, the media rely on biased work by the Brennan Center for Justice, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, News21, the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal groups. Finally, the media often ignore two primary facts about voter ID: the American people overwhelmingly support voter ID laws, and the United States Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that state-level voter ID laws can be constitutional. [url=http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA641.html]Media Shows Pervasive Bias When Covering Voter ID[/url][/SIZE][/LEFT][/SIZE][/FONT][/s] [/QUOTE]
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