Guess the Party: Lock-Em-Up Edition
By Jimmie on Dec 1, 2008 in Oh, THAT liberal media., Our New Democratic Overlords
I don’t normally play the “Name the Party” game with MSM reports like Don Surber, Ace, Glenn Reynolds, and Stacy McCain do, but this one seemed too obvious for me not to.
Reuters reported today that the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama was arrested on corruption charges without noting his party affiliation anywhere in the two-paragraph story. The local Birmingham paper didn’t note it either, but you could forgive them for assuming that the people who elected the guy to run the biggest city in Alabama would know what party he belonged to.
What’s really interesting to me is that Reuters couldn’t spare a word to note that Mayor Langford is a Democrat in their story, but they could spend spend a dozen by-lining the reporter, writer, and editor. Which has more journalistic value?
Stumble it!
The party doesn’t matter their all up to something.
Coop | Dec 1, 2008 | Reply
It seems that you can reliable determine the party affiliation when it’s not mentioned. It’s as if there is some rule that journalist must not mention the party if it’s a coruption story about a Democrat, and they always prominently attach the party label to all other coruption stories.
So, if no party is mentioned, it’s invariably a Democrat.
Don | Dec 1, 2008 | Reply