Hamas & Democracy

Newscasts of most American broadcast organizations have all been putting the same "spin" on the story out of the Middle East about the Palestinians electing a largely majority Hamas government. Hamas the newscaster say is a terrorist organization and therefore they find people who say Democracy did a bad turn for the moderates in the Middle East and around the world.
I disagree with that completely. I believe the ballot box did exactly what it was supposed to be and that we should congratulate the Palestinians on electing a government. The government they have or had--Fatah--has been known to be corrupt for a long time, and it retained its power for many years without elections of any sort at all.
One story I read in fact quoted a Palestinian man as saying he voted for Hamas because Fatah is so corrupt. If that is true, then that man's vote worked! Democracy worked. The Palestinians were able to throw out a corrupt government, not by getting a lot of people killed, but at the ballot box.
So, the story that none of the American news organizations seem to be picking up on is that: democracy worked in Palestine.
Now, that said, there are many more steps to be taken to ever solve the problems of hate and killing in Palestine. There seem to be too many people there who enjoy both those things, hate and killing. Furthermore, they seem to enjoy it not for any political reason, but simply for the sake of hating and killing.
Yet, if the Palestinians decide they want peace, they will vote in a government that campaigns for peace. That may take years. Who knows? But, it may not take years because if they see their wishes fulfilled at the ballot box, they may vote more often.
But, the major news organizations will never understand that.
That also is why the newscasts of the major news organizations in the US, ABC, NBC and CBS continue to loser viewers.
In a nutshell? They don't know what they are doing.