Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story September 11th, 2001 marked the end of national media attention to Election 2000: there was a sense, in the dog-days of August 2001 that the 'official' line of 'just get over it' was crumbling and that the greatest political crisis in the U.S. since Watergate was about to make a resurgence into the headlines. The September 17th issue of Newsweek contained articles critical of the election 2000 decision, and Rolling Stone was preparing a story on the Washington Press Corps' slanted coverage of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. The NORC recount was gathering steam and spooking the administration; GOP representatives had begun to show up at Recount locations to scrutinize the methods employed and criticize the inclusion of ballots they considered tainted. The attacks in New York and Washington changed all that, and Election 2000 disappeared down the memory hole. The national media immediately adopted all the trappings of a full-blown war-time reporting service, replete with flags and ribbons. Self-censorship, blind devotion to the every utterance of the Administration, and the suppression of criticism became the core attributes of the national media, particularly the Big Three networks and the cable news outlets. Newsweek published on September 17th as planned, but the attitude of the national media transformed from one mildly skeptical of the Bush administration to one of slavish admiration. Questions about the disputed election of 2000 were relegated to the scrap heap of history: they were 'so September 10th.' This posture of abasement at the feet of the Executive Branch seemed to suit the national media to a 'T'. Where media outlets had been slow to attack the administration on the support it gave 'bourgeois rioters' in Miami, and had frozen out journalists such as Bob Parry and Greg Palast before September 11th, now they condemned questions about Election 2002 as 'unpatriotic,' even 'treasonous.' Relieved of the responsibility of acting as a 'national watchdog' by the broad support the Bush administration enjoyed post 9/11, the major media outlets became what they seemed to have wanted to be all along: unthinking cheerleaders for a Cheerleader Presidency Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp228.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-03-10