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I cannot resist tonight and feel compelled to say what's on my mind... not only about the election, but the Press.

I will be *so* upset if Romney is voted into office - especially in light of past issues with voter balloting issues (fraud, tampering, intimidation, et al). Worse, it would appear that there is not one single person of executive power who will call out this type of blatant (or in some cases, it's well hidden) case of what I feel is a civil rights related issue. I wish it wasn't the end of my day so I could find the term I really want to use that describes this situation perfectly, but apparently I am tired.

But more importantly, this is what bothers me just as much as the former issue concerning Romney: It's that the Press seems to not care how news is reported or what constitutes news, in and of itself, or even prioritizing their news content in terms of not only reporting on election issues (as well as news in general) that is of paramount importance to every single person who lives within the jurisdiction of the US, but in terms of providing news that is honest, credible, legitimate and not what the news has been offering up as 'news.'

I find it unconscienable (did I spell that right?) that the public in general, it would seem, does not feel compelled to hold the journalistic press corps to a standard that is above reproach and that it would appear that counter-news agencies seem to not call out major corps press members for their less than stellar performance in news reporting.

I feel that the press and other social media outlets are culpable in manipulating press releases and publishing them as bonafide, legitimate, credible sources of news (information). I can't tell you how many times I have called into an editors desk and launched my own disapproval of their so-called process as a way of taking action; and encouraging others I know here at home, to make calls or write letters to Editors of news periodicals/publications, as well.