Paul Krugman of the New York Times looks at Florida’s upcoming ballotless election and those who will run it and comes up with a vote of no confidence.
“Let’s not be coy,” Krugman says. ” Jeb Bush says he won’t allow an independent examination of voting machines because he has every confidence in his handpicked election officials. Yet those officials have a history of slipshod performance on other matters related to voting and somehow their errors always end up favoring Republicans. Why should anyone trust their verdict on the integrity of voting machines, when another convenient mistake could deliver a Republican victory in a high-stakes national election?”
The Miami Herald and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune got mentions in the column for work exposing major problems with this year’s felon list.
Read Krugman’s column.
Meanwhile, the bloggers invited to cover the Democratic Convention had a media breakfast where they were addressed by the likes of Howard Dean, Barack Obama, and legendary Associated Press reporter Walter Mears, who also is blogging the convention.
“There’s just one problem: They don’t seem terribly sure what the hell to do,” reported Campaign Desk.
“There are a lot of reporters in Boston, and not, in the end, a lot of stories. Bloggers are having their big moment at last with the deck stacked slightly against them — had they been invited to an event with a bit more substance, they might have had an easier time taking advantage of their access.”
See Campaign Desk.
Meanwhile, lots more blogger news on WashingtonPost.com including a dig at The Miami Herald‘s Dave Barry for hyping other Knight-Ridder bloggers. Barry’s blog itself, WP said, is a rather “threadbare affair.”
That’s what we love about blogging. Mainstream papers don’t toss insults like that at each other in their printed editions without waiting for a workup by a full-fledged media critic.
Quote of the day: “I wouldn’t urinate down his throat if his heart was on fire.” – James Carville about Ralph Nader.