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Dishonest Coverage (3.00 / 2)

This sort of dishonesty has become common across the United States in political reporting.  Here in Massachusetts, it became common for the partisan press to report of our 2002 Senate election that Senator Kerry was running or had run unopposed, which he was and did not.  He had opponents, who he avoided debating.  Confirming that he had opponents required no more that looking at the Secretary of teh Commonwealth's web pages.  This level of misreporting included both Fox News and its liberal counterpart, the Boston Globe.  Both did eventually issue corrections.

Complaints to AP matter.

by phillies on Sat Mar 05, 2005 at 09:13:41 AM EST

Re: Dishonest Coverage (none / 0)

Reminds me of the California Gubernatorial Recall in 2003.  The media decided to invite 5 of the 135 candidates to a debate on the pretense that these were the "major" candidates.  Other than Swartzenegger and Bustamante, the other three were McClintock, Huffington, and Camejo.

The latter two had the support of about 2% in most polls.  Just below what Gary Coleman and some other candidates had.  

But the media has the power to arbitrarily decide who the candidates are that will be completely ignored.

It would be nice if the media could be held accountable.

by meme on Sat Mar 05, 2005 at 01:43:10 PM EST
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