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Dangers with provisional voting
August 6, 2004Washington > Campaign 2004 > A Rule to Avert Balloting Woes Adds to Them” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/politics/campaign/06vote.html?hp”>The New York Times > Washington >A Rule to Avert Balloting Woes Adds to Them (Free registration required). Provisional voting, the centerpiece of the Help America Vote Act that Congress passed in 2002, will be put into effect across the nation [...]
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My beef with big media
August 2, 2004“My beef with big media” by Ted Turner. Washington Monthly July/August, 2004. To get a flavor of how consolidated the industry has become, consider this: In 1990, the major broadcast networks–ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox–fully or partially owned just 12.5 percent of the new series they aired. By 2000, it was 56.3 percent. Just two [...]
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To fix or not to fix online news errors?
August 1, 2004To Fix or Not to Fix: Online Corrections Policies Vary Widely by Mark Thompson, Posted: 2004-07-28, Online Journalism Review. What happens to the online version of a newspaper when the newspaper corrects an error? Does it change the story? Leave the story, but append a correction? Leave the error? Policies are changing and this article [...]