In 1969,the FCC revoked the license of WLBT in Jackson after the commission established a systematic effort by the broadcaster to suppress information about the civil rights movement.In this case,if the blackout was intentional,it may also have been counterproductive.Rather than take attention away from allegations that Mr. Siegelman was the victim of a partisan campaign,WHNT's technical glitch seems to lend support to charge |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)