Post Op Analysis of NM Sun News front cover OBAMA WINS!, CNN coverage, L.A. Times, London Telegraph, London Mirror, papers in India, Taiwan, Romania, Italy, and Pakistan. The comparison with the Chicago Tribune and Dewey is absurd, extraneous, and totally irrelevant. They printed several hundred copies the night of the election thinking Dewey won. We printed 11,000 copies ten days before the election, sure of Obama's victory.

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STRAIGHT FROM HORSE'S MOUTH.....

I presume a few voracious readers at OEN saw the CNN articles over the past few days about our paper, New Mexico Sun News, headlining: OBAMA WINS!

It was written by the CNN Senior Correspondent, John King, and I am grateful for the coverage, not at all because of the 600 comments running the usual crazy range from thoughtful to enraged, but more because it has led to further coverage by many US newspapers, two London Dailies (the Mirror and the Telegraph), newspapers in India, Romania, Taiwan, and Pakistan, loads of US TV station little brief stories, etc.

However, the CNN article was conceptually flawed and lended itself to a kind of sensationalist interpretation of what we did and why,which then gets carried on in a weird way (I hesitate to say VIRAL, as six months of Obama campaigning have made me instantly skeptical of that word).

It is unfortunate that the original CNN story didn't mention the 14 page
article that was a compendium of the 38 best editorial page endorsements from all over the United States, and neglected to mention, as we did in the article, that we were justified in saying Obama Wins! because he had just won the Scholastic Magazine election by mostly sixth graders.

These 38 endorsements, plus about 20 more, are posted at mybarackobama.com in my personal blog, listed under Stephen Fox. They are also posted in 7 very long articles at opednews.com, and there is an opportunity to comment at will and at length.

This was not a stunt, whatsoever. There was absolutely nothing in jest in my article, but perhaps a bit of tongue in cheek stance in my Managing Editor's statement, Jerry Greenker, whose idea this actually was, and I was very proud to support this great idea.... 

Our next issue comes out 4 days after the election, and his victory would be old news by then. We are not seers nor fortune tellers, but we are, like many Americans, Poli Sci wonks, historical scholars with keen focus on political journalism, and Democratic strategists. I personally have been concentrating on making happen the editorial page endorsement avalanche for Obama we are seeing now, and like a gardener, I am very very proud to hold up the first fruits of victory, even if we are a bit ahead of the hounds and ahead of the vote counters.

The comparison with the Chicago Tribune and Dewey is absurd, extraneous, and totally irrelevant. They printed several hundred copies the night of the election thinking Dewey had won. We printed 11,000 copies ten days before the election, sure that Obama will win.

We are proud of endorsing him in this way, to just declare him the winner, which apparently you would have known if you were still in 6th grade. We would do it again in a second, with no regrets, except for a bit of hate mail from some very very angry Americans, ready to fly off the handle at just about anything....

By making this out to be a "stunt" or a "prank," the Senior Political
Correspondent at CNN dismissed our motivation. Nonetheless, we are glad we did what we did, and certainly not "just to be first." The endorsements are all at OpEdNews.com and at mybarackobama.com at my blog site: read them in succession, and by doing so, I truly you will comprehend more clearly our effort and its integrity.

Stephen Fox, Contributing Editor New Mexico Sun News
stephen@santafefineart.com

Authors Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev