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I object to the headlines (none / 0) (#4)
by oldpro on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 01:53:02 PM EST
for this happened to both candidates.  The lead, however, emphasizes the Obama undercount and is, therfore, open to misinterpretation by the anti-Hillary crowd, so ready to jump to conclusions.

Not good.

The headline (none / 0) (#8)
by tek on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 03:31:15 PM EST
doeesn't say Hillary's votes were not counted, they just addressed Obama.
Get over it.

Obama votes not counted? How cool is that?

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The article was very fair (none / 0) (#10)
by pontificator on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 04:17:02 PM EST
And the headline was accurate in that the official count will probably add a delegate or two to Obama's totals.  It's clear to anyone who reads the article (and also, incidentally, to anyone familiar with New York City voting machines and elections), that this is just overstressed election workers screwing up on election night.  Thankfully, the votes are still there, and the count can be rectified officially.

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Oh for Chrissakes... (5.00 / 1) (#13)
by oldpro on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 05:18:22 PM EST
I didn't say the article wasn't fair.  I said nothing about the article, although the fact that BOTH candidates had the same zero-total malfunction in voting machines wasn't mentioned until well into the story.

My point is a very simple one.  The headline was misleading as it implied that ONLY Obama's votes were miscounted...when the fact is that both candidates votes were miscounted.

You may not think it matters but those who are schooled in propaganda know that most people only get the headline of a story and maybe the first paragraph.  That is why bumperstickers, slogans, billboards, headlines are effective.  They are the 'short story' and when they are inaccurate or misleading, it's not only 'not cool'...it's wrong and it's bad journalism, by design or by default.

In journalism headline-writing class, that is an 'F.'  Pure and simple.

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