[EL] Al Jazeera America article on voter suppression

Wed Oct 29 12:01:39 PDT 2014

No need to attack the ownership of the outlet; the article is full of
misrepresentations and inaccuracies. This is right on cue. With just one
week out from the election, it was just about time for folks to trot out
the Crosscheck boogeyman. For starters, let's not forget states are
prevented from acting on this data within a 90 day period before the
election. The article's entire tone suggests Republican Secretaries of
State are currently working overtime to purge thousands of
Democratic-leaning voters from the rolls to ensure victory this November
all under direct orders from their overlord Sec. Kobach.

J Justin Riemer
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JJustinRiemer at gmail.com

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:28 PM, George Korbel <korbellaw at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Dr Maurer
>
> Well the article of which complai was written by a professor at the
> Hamline University law school in Minneapolis. I cannot conceive of
> something that is more Apple pie than a professor at a Midwestern mid
> American twin cities law school. The author is a member of this board and
> the fact that he expressed his views in an op ed in an internationally
> respected news source hardly associates his views with a middle eastern
> royal family.   The middle west is not the Middle East.
>
> And as far as you being off put by his exercise of the first
> amendment--that is the beauty of the concept of our founding fathers.  That
> pesky first amendment sometimes puts us all off.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 29, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Bill Maurer <wmaurer at ij.org> wrote:
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>  I also read the story.  I found it interesting but was put off by its
> editorial rhetoric.
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> As for the independence of the stories the network runs, the Guardian
> reported on this issue recently.
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> http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/30/al-jazeera-independence-questioned-qatar
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> *From:* Greg P. Magarian [mailto:gpmagarian at wulaw.wustl.edu
> <gpmagarian at wulaw.wustl.edu>]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:58 AM
> *To:* Jeff Hauser; Bill Maurer
> *Cc:* John W. Farrell; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* RE: [EL] Al Jazeera America article on voter suppression
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> You’re ascribing a news story, wholesale, to the news outlet’s owners.
> The byline on the story credits Greg Palast, a U.S.-born journalist who
> primarily works in the U.K.  Palast is not a member of the Qatari monarchy.
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> At a structural level, concerns about media ownership are, IMHO, quite
> valid.  If we’re talking about a particular story, written by a respected,
> widely-published member of a profession that prizes operational
> independence, questions based on ownership might still be valid.  But a
> question and a sweeping dismissal, entirely free of substantive analysis,
> are two different things.
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> If you think the story is wrong on its merits, say why.  If you have a
> basis for arguing that the owners of al Jazeera exercise stifling editorial
> control over news stories, share it.  For that matter, you might explain
> why, even if we ascribe Palast’s story to the Qatari monarchy, an entity
> that doesn’t practice democracy can’t offer a useful critique of democratic
> practices.
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [
> mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
> <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Jeff
> Hauser
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 29, 2014 11:44 AM
> *To:* Bill Maurer
> *Cc:* John W. Farrell; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Al Jazeera America article on voter suppression
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> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2011/07/11/saudi-investor-alwaleed-news-corps-news-of-the-world-was-a-rotten-apple/
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Bill Maurer <wmaurer at ij.org> wrote:
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> The Unification Church is not a country.  The more proper analogy would be
> whether I found articles from them about theology persuasive.
>
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> I would think that anybody would find it laughable to be lectured on the
> narrowness of our franchise by a media outlet owned by a royal family that
> does not permit any elections (at least as far as I can tell).  Regardless
> of where one stands on voter ID, I can’t take criticism by absolute
> monarchs on how we conduct elections seriously.
>
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>
> *From:* John W. Farrell [mailto:jfarrell at mccandlishlawyers.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:25 AM
> *To:* Bill Maurer
> *Cc:* Schultz, David A.; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Al Jazeera America article on voter suppression
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> Do you ask the same question about stories in the Washington Times?
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> On Oct 29, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Bill Maurer wrote:
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> A story on voting rights from a media outlet owned by the royal family of
> Qatar raises the question of how broad was the franchise that voted them
> into office?
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> Bill
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [
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> <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Schultz,
> David A.
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 29, 2014 6:10 AM
> *To:* law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* [EL] Al Jazeera America article on voter suppression
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>
> A good article today in  Al Jazeera America on voter suppression along
> with  my accompanying op-ed on the topic.
>
>  http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html
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> http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/2014-midterm-electionsgopvotersuppressiondemocrats.html
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