Wow…We’re blown away by this article in today’s Beacon News. [Article now hidden behind paid archives, here’s a local repost.] It begins this way:
For four years, Bradblog.com has reported on voting machine problems
April 14, 2008
By Dan Campana dcampana@scn1.com
If the mass media ever did its job, Brad Friedman could go back to his former life, the one before 2004 when election scandals became his full-time vocation…
We’re greatly appreciative of Campana’s coverage. Not only because he’s very kind to us, but because — as a total of four of his stories filed over the last two days reveal — he has actually done what so few corporate journalists seem able to do today: Actual journalism.
Before we saw the piece mentioned above today, we had kind words about his coverage yesterday of the wholly under-reported Hart InterCivic federal fraud suit. But beyond that detailed piece, his follow-up story today and “related coverage” offered on both days has been top-notch. Here are links to each of his stories today and yesterday…
- Sunday:
- Did your vote count?:
Unsealed federal lawsuit reignites eSlate debate - Election reform proposal stalled
- Monday:
- Silent fight over voting machines:
Technician says lawsuit followed years of trying to get word out - The little blog that did:
For four years, Bradblog.com has reported on voting machine problems
[Above article now behind paid archives. Local copy here.]
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what journalism is supposed to look like. And yes, if we had a few more hundred (we’d settle for a few more dozen) like Campana, we’d be more than thrilled to go back to what we were doing prior to falling into this remarkable American Nightmare. We look forward to the day we can take down our shingle entirely and leave all of the heavy lifting to folks like him who actually get paid to do this stuff.
(But until then, whatever support you can afford to help keep us going is appreciated…You are all we’ve actually got. So, please see below, and please keep spreading the word.)
I wrote to him thanking him for the article and “bragging” about you and he sent a nice thank-you and said he was going to cover more of the same.
We now know your age 🙂 You do look much younger though. IMO
Thanks again for ALL you do.
Congratulations! It’s about time you get the recognition so so rightly deserve!
I shall follow GWN’s lead and drop him a thank you also.
BB2
It appears Dan Campana actually *read* the Hart qui tam complaint. ?!?!?
He obviously hasn’t received the memo yet that the subject of election integrity must be handled with rubber gloves and put far away.
A big thanks to Campana’s editors, too. Without their support, he couldn’t commit journalism.
Finally a little recognition, eh Bud?
Good fer you man
I just watched the Redford movie ‘Lions for Lambs’, Good stuff
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Way to go Brad..!! Great news indeed..!!
Looks like ’08 is turning out to be a red letter year all round.
Your fame is spreading, finally..!! You’ll all be getting rid of Bush and the rest of those creeps, and I started working again, so will be able to cross your palm with some silver at the end of the month and help further your noble cause :o)
Hey Brad, congratulations!
Funny how quickly (NOT!) things can snowball when “six or seven” people get pissed off enough, huh? *bfg*
Hey Brad,
Let me add my congratulations on your well deserved recognition for a job well done. Now if only the phone would ring from AAR asking you to fill the vacant time slot left by the departer of Randi Rhodes.
You could always decide to say know if you chose.
We are the blog, resistance is freedom.