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Politico - Politico political editor Charles Mahtesian was e-mailing the other day with a Republican lobbyist, who signed off with a plea that sounded more like a taunt: “Keep it balanced.”
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Politico political editor Charles Mahtesian was e-mailing the
other day with a Republican lobbyist who signed off
with a plea that sounded more like a taunt: Keep it balanced. A reader e-mailed us with the same sentiment in different language. Are you ...
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Why McCain is getting hosed in the press - Politico.com ...
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Politico: Yes, We're Biased. So What?
Little Green Footballs —
Politico reporters Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris examine the claim that the media are overwhelmingly biased against the McCain campaign, conclude that it’s true, and then sum up their response in two words: “So what?”
Why McCain is getting hosed in the press.
OK, let’s just get this over with: Yes, in the closing weeks of this election, John McCain and Sarah Palin are getting hosed in the press, and at Politico.
And, yes, based on a combined 35 years in ...
One more thing about that Politico article
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Amanda Marcotte
This really made me laugh in dismay.
Most political journalists we know are centrists — instinctually skeptical of ideological zealotry — but with at least a mild liberal tilt to their thinking, particularly on social issues.
Emphasis mine, because I find this sort of statement to be silly in its assumption that there’s something noteworthy about that. It’s like saying, “Most journalists put their pants on one leg at a time.” ...
You can be fair or balanced, but not both
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... I hate to say it, because it comes out of place of defensiveness (especially since they’re supposed to be a conservative magazine that mainstreams right wing ideas to a large extent), but this article in Politico defending the media’s “unbalanced” approach to the election is right. It’s true that the media has had more “negative” stories about McCain and more “positive” ones about Obama, but, to quote Politico, there’s a reason for this. ...
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