Friday, January 12, 2007

As The Globe Spins

I like the way this guy thinks. Brian at Snapped Shot:

The Boston Globe, competitor of Mr. Crittenden's far superior paper, is celebrating the Democrats' return to power in the Congress fairly openly. I mean, how else would you explain the following passage, other than as a loving ode ... For comparison, let's consider how the Globe handled the Republicans' truly historic (first time in 40 years) of the Congress in 1994, via the Globe's own archives ...

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2 comments:

DonSurber said...

The Glob celebrates the Dem takeover by laying off 19 newsroom types including two opinion writers

Newt was demonized; Nance canonized

Purple Avenger said...

The disgraceful thing here is the Globe printed this as a "hard news" piece rather than opinion.

I'm disturbed by the growing wave of blatant "opinionization" in purportedly hard news stories.

The Joe Friday "just the facts" school of journalism seems to have fallen by the wayside, and they're not even being subtle about it anymore.