Email Pressure Pushes ABC to Cover Story

It is kind of a dead issue but it looks like the newsroom is starting to take leads from public pressure to cover a story.  Rush doesn' t like the trend but I think it starts to outline a new strategy to influence coverage beyond the press release and personal contact strategy.

JENNINGS: We've been a little bit surprised by how many e-mails we've had suggesting that maybe once again the country got it wrong. Now, we're not particularly disposed to conspiracy theories. As you know, Mr. Bush won by a comfortable margin of more than three million votes. We did think it might be a public service -- and, quite frankly, cut back on the e-mails -- if our ballot-watch correspondent Jake Tapper took another look.