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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 10:37 PM
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This is the kind of biased journalism we are up against...
Edited on Wed Aug-06-08 10:39 PM by book_worm
I live in Madison, Wisconsin. It's a nice liberal city but has a right-wing newspaper, The Wisconsin State Journal. Here is the headline on page three of the paper:

POLL: OBAMA IS LOSING GROUND

It's all about that silly Zogby poll that has Obama 1-point behind McCain. There is 8 paragraphs on that poll. Then in the final paragraph of the story is this: "At the same time, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll had Obama leading McCain 47 percent to 41 percent among registered voters." end of story.

So instead of headlining a story that Obama is six points up in one poll they chose to do the major part of the story on the one poll that has McCain up by one-point. Better yet they could have done a story equally about both polls perhaps with a headline saying: POLLS OFFER CONFLICTING RESULTS.

But no, they choose the poll and headline most negative to Obama.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 10:41 PM
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1. They've probably already chosen their headline ...
... for the day after the election:

"Obama Squeaks By With a Landslide"
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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-08 10:41 PM
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2. No doubt.
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