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not-label-democrats-caught-scandal
Newspapers Continue Not to Label Democrats Caught In Scandal
By Dave Pierre | December 16, 2007 - 19:54 ET
A close adviser and chief fundraiser to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was
indicted on fraud charges. Yet if you read about the story in the Chicago
Tribune, you won't read which party the governor belongs to. That's right.
Blagojevich is a Democrat, yet the Trib didn't bother to include this fact
in their piece. (On Friday (12/14/07), the Los Angeles Times published the
same Tribune article. In the print edition (hard copy), the text is
identical to the Trib. Yet in the same article posted on the Times web
site, in the eighth paragraph of the article, the words "a Democrat" have
been stealthfully inserted after the governor's name (screen shot). Hmmm.
Did they know we'd be looking?)
Meanwhile, Bryan over at Hot Air showed how the Kansas City Star reported
the resignation of Kansas's attorney general following a sex scandal. The
original article completely omitted Paul Morrison's Democrat affiliation.
Only after a phone call to the writer of the article did the Star amend the
article by adding the word "Democrat" to the fourth paragraph.
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