"The basis of a strong democracy is a diverse and dynamic media. It's time to take away the corporate media bullhorn and let America's many voices be heard." – John Edwards

The current corporate stranglehold on the media is one of the biggest obstacles to growing a progressive movement in America.  The progressive ideals of removing corporate control from our Government and having the people's voices count as much or more than the corporations is impossible when the message is mediated by those corporations themselves.  

The Edwards Evening News Roundup debuted on April 4, 2007 and ended the night that John Edwards suspended his campaign, January 30, 2008.

Those of us who worked so hard on EENR for all those months have decided to continue on to work on the issues that John Edwards brought to this campaign: economic justice, poverty in America, addressing global warming with more than the hot air of politicians, universal healthcare, ending the phony GWOT, which John Edwards described as a "bumpersticker" and a "sledgehammer to justify the worst abuses and biggest mistakes of his [Bush's] administration," an end to the war in Iraq, and so many other issues.

We plan to continue this work.  Come around after the fold for more.    

I don't know when our party began to turn away from the cause of working people, from the fathers who were working three jobs literally just to pay the rent, mothers sending their kids to bed wrapped up in their clothes and in coats because they couldn't afford to pay for heat.

We know that our brothers and sisters have been bullied into believing that they can't organize and can't put a union in the workplace. Well, in this campaign, we didn't turn our heads. We looked them square in the eye and we said, "We see you, we hear you, and we are with you. And we will never forget you." And I have a feeling that if the leaders of our great Democratic Party continue to hear the voices of working people, a proud progressive will occupy the White House.

-John Edwards

Did you know that John Edwards is going all the way to the convention. I knew. Apparently, lots of reporters and the mainstream are just finding out. Slow as usual.

Hey all, I'm your new Sunday night EENR gal. Tonight I want to expose you to stances and policy proposals that only Edwards is pushing for. His platform if enacted, would create the most sweeping changes this country has seen since FDR. To find out more, follow me below the fold....

I think we all know that tonight the real news is the South Carolina Democratic Primary, but while we await the results, we can hang out here and share other news of the day. Whatever happens tonight, we continue to fight to have the voice of the real change candidate heard over the media brownout and the plastic fantastic celebrity candidates.

At this time, CNN and MSNBC are already calling the SC race for Obama, just a few minutes after the polls closed, but they are saying it's a tight race for second place. 0 precincts are reporting, but this is based on exit polls.

Hi all. TomP here with the Friday night edition of EENR.

We've changed the schedule here a little at EENR.  Your regular Friday night anchorwoman, Sarahlane, is moving to Sunday nights and Ellinorianne is moving to Friday nights.  I'm filling in tonight because Ellinorianne stepped up last night to fill in.  It gets complicated, but the one thing you can know for sure is that EENR will be here every night.  

That's what we've been doing since April 4, 2007.  (The First EENR)  And that's what we plan to do for a long, long time.

I have a lot tonight.  First, I have Mr. Red Jet reading the Letter from Mr. Martin Luther King, III to John Edwards to pictures selected by our own Be Inpired and Red Jet.  I have John Edwards' new television and radio commercials in South Carolina, the Palmetto State.  But there's much, much more.  Lots of Edwards news today.

Come around after the fold for Friday night Edwards' fun.

Dear Heather,

When it comes to protecting the rule of law, words are not enough. We need action.

It's wrong for your government to spy on you. That's why I'm asking you to join me today in calling on Senate Democrats to filibuster revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would give "retroactive immunity" to the giant telecom companies for their role in aiding George W. Bush's illegal eavesdropping on American citizens.

The Senate is debating this issue right now -- which is why we must act right now. You can call your Senators here:

   Barbara Boxer, (D): (202) 224-3553
   Dianne Feinstein, (D): (202) 224-3841

My title made you look!

"...what I was trying to do was represent the grown-up wing of the Democratic Party last night."

-John Edwards to David Letterman, in reference to Monday night's Democratic debate.

That and so much more in tonight's Edwards Evening News.

Hi folks.  After 9+ months of continuous EENRs, we had a little oopsy tonight in terms of who was authoring this nightly edition.  So, I'm tossing up something we can all contribute to.

Welcome to the day after and this Sunday's EENR.  I want to remind people that even as the media ignores Edwards and the blogosphere is going on about who won Nevada, Clinton or Obama, that Edwards is still working as if he's out ahead of them both.  

The only way this  continues to happen is our involvement and our action.  There are still things we can do and they are so very important for not only talking about why we support Edwards, but how we can support him.

Current Nevada Democratic Caucus Results
(with 90% counted)

Clinton:   50.77%  
Obama: 45.11%
Edwards: 3.77%
Uncommitted: 0.3%
Kucinich: 0.05%
Gravel: 0%

Well Nevada was disappointing!


My assessment, most of those that had a chance to actually hear John Edwards speak, probably Voted for him. (Too bad not many had that chance.)

Despite the weak showing, Edwards may still pick up some Delegates. Areas where he got more than 15%, will mean more "Delegates For Edwards"!  (according to Wolf Blitzer)

Here are the latest Nevada results.

Hey all, I'm back again with another installment of Edwards Evening News Roundup. This will be the last EENR I do on Fridays. Starting next week, I will be the Sunday Night EENR girl. Tonight I'm going to focus on how we in the netroots can take action to help elect John Edwards. We've got an uphill battle. The media covers Edwards a lot less than Obama and Hillary. Big business is preparing a 52 million dollar campaign against Edwards. Yesterday I diaried that numerous polling firms are now excluding Edwards from general election polling. What can we do to help elect John Edwards? Plenty! Follow me below the fold......

Nevada's caucuses are this Saturday morning; South Carolina's primary follows the following Saturday.

We're half-way through the "early states" part of this process with a long way still to go till the convention in August, and I'm sad to say I have only 31 more Thursday EENRs left to write.  Who knew when TomP, NCDem Amy and a few stalwart others started this exceptional series that we'd be able to keep it up this long.  Who knew we'd be having this much fun!

[update] 55 minutes and counting till THE BIG DAY! Debit card poised and waiting.......

Tonight's really big news is the Democratic debate tonight at 9 P.M. Eastern/6 P.M. Pacific on MSNBC. If you're like me and don't have cable, you can watch it here. Join us here for discussion!