Wednesday, 12 March 2008

The Press

Name That Party: Spitzer vs. Craig


Interesting comparison Oh what the heck:  It’s time once again for yet another example of the usual stuff, as NewsBusters commenter “Mr. Shy” runs the numbers for party identification in the coverage of the Democrat governor Eliot Spitzer’s resignation, compared to that of Republican Senator Larry Craig:

[For] seven selected major online news sites:
CNN
MSNBC
CBS News
ABC News
NY Times
Washington Post
CNBC

Comparison:  Spitzer’s resignation and Craig’s resignation (or related article at that time)...

SPITZER:
“Democrat” - 1
“DNC” - 0

CRAIG:
“Republican” - 16
“GOP” - 4

Some R's and GOP's are right in the headline, some in the subhead, some articles have up to 4 instances in the first few paragraphs, and one paragraph injects the word 3 TIMES!

What's more hilarious -- although, really, it makes me that much more ill -- is the one D mention is to annouce Spitzer's successor, which is uplifting news (legally blind black man, etc..)
(He has all the links, too.)

Via: Radio Equalizer

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