The Sleeping Media

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Note from David Earnhardt, "Uncounted" filmmaker: Each week until the election we will release a clip from UNCOUNTED because now, more than ever, people need to see stories that will motivate them to stand up and help save our democracy. Please spread these clips around - to the bleary-eyed and the overworked; the uninspired and the skeptical.

WEEK 6: The Sleeping Media

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Rather than pay attention to the many emails and tips about election day irregularities and exit poll discrepancies they received after the 2004 election, corporate media reporters and journalists collectively rolled their eyes or stuck their fingers in their ears and said, "La la la la la I'm not listening!" But a rare exception was Tribune Media Services syndicated columnist, Bob Koehler, who was one of the first to report nationally on the glaring problem, got the story out so that now we can be prepared for what lies ahead in 2008.

Or will the corporate media be Rip Van Hoodwinkled again?

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Also Available Weeks 1 thru 5

Week 5: Playing to Win with a Full Deck of Race Cards
Get to know Jim Crow - the bully who can disenfranchise millions with one simple act.

Week 4: The Athan Gibbs Story. What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Nashville businessman Athan Gibbs had a question: Why, if you're an ATM manufacturer, would you make a machine that doesn't provide a paper trail and can't be audited?

Week 3: Diebold's Disreputable Distinction is Dead On Deserved
Ex-Emory County, Utah County Clerk, Bruce Funk, is the kind of man you wish was your grandfather - soft-spoken, kind, and able to recognize what has been called "the nuclear bomb of security flaws" in Diebold's electronic voting machines.

Week 2: Miller Dollar Programmer
Cint Curtis was asked to create a vote-rigging software prototype that he assumed would be used to try and "catch" would-be fraudsters. The truth, of course, was something completely different.

Week 1: The Ballad of Steve Heller
All he was doing was his job when Steve Heller found "smoking gun proof" that an electronic voting machine manufacturer was using illegal uncertified software in their voting machines.

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Mary Mancini
Co-producer, UNCOUNTED
http://www.uncountedthemovie.com