Smearing the Curious

Journalists Must Avoid Bias

Update II: Lincoln Journal Star reprints the whole Flatwater Press article below at (https://journalstar.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/elections/election-conspiracies-spread-in-nebraska-through-meetings-emails-letters/article_748c0c5a-24dd-11ef-99c9-eb96c5d667e2.html).

Update: I should also point out how far Natalia Alamdari goes in destroying her own credibility by mere use of subjective adjectives as shown below:

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First, disclosures. I supported Sean Kelly who ran against Ken Anderson mentioned below. I have also contributed funds to the

O’Keefe Media Group (https://okeefemediagroup.com/).

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Flatwater Press has done some interesting stories. The founders are Matt Wynn and Matthew Hansen, former World Herald writers. And now their organization is looking at election matters.

Here is the general problem about elections. People have questions about elections and integrity yet such concerned people are being defamed as being paranoid. While some are paranoid, many more want answers.

Right now, a losing candidate is calling for a manual recount (https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/06/05/omaha-candidate-seeks-recount-at-own-cost-after-soundly-losing-gop-primary/). Douglas County Election Commissioner Brian Kruse says the recount must be done by machine. As for official recount, Kruse is right, but why not do a manual recount anyways? Prove Ken Anderson wrong about the machines by doing the manual recount. Failure to do so only emboldens the concern that you have something to hide about what the machines actually do.

Kruse is part of the Elite. The Elite are so overbearing and chauvinistic about what they think they know, they feel they have no reason to share or debate what they know. Instead, they defame those who challenge them. This is what is feeding division in the United States.

Yet, the writer for the Flatwater Press became an example of the problem instead of explaining the problem in her article (https://flatwaterfreepress.org/letters-warning-of-fraud-calls-to-form-your-militia-election-conspiracies-spread-in-nebraska/).

The writer, Natalia Alamdari, makes her first mistake in using the term “election deniers”. Such terms inject bias in the reporting and is naive as merely six months from now, there may be a whole different group of people upset with presidential election results. In other words, the term is partisan and inflamatory.

There are other problems here. Just when I want to have some trust in government officials, Federal Election Commission lawyer Adav Noti states the following:

Noti’s words create substantial anger among many citizens who expect government officials to provide better data and not flawed and easily to misinterpret information. This should have been the full focus of the story, not the partisan nonsense. At the same time, merely trying to find out why this information is bad is obstructed.

Beverly Pop is merely a responsible citizen informing Nebraskans of the information she found. Yet, this article from the Flatwater Press attempts to smear her as naive, paranoid and ignorant. She apparently was inspired by the O’Keefe Media Group which is shining light on the information the Federal Election Commission provides. See this video.

What is sad about this is some people are actually having their identity exploited. Because the Federal Election Commission requires donations to be reported, there are active donators looking to mask their donations and will find ways to exploit and use the names of others. To what degree, no one seems to know. The nice part is Rosalie Goldberg’s donations turned out to be valid, but she is only one person speaking of the 1,500 people who received Pop’s letter.