FROM THE LEFT
By Todd Gitlin
The Times is not pro-Bush in the way that The Washington Times is pro-Bush, slamming John Kerry with Vietnam falsehoods week after week.
But The Times’s decorous approach to the news has often helped President Bush in three significant ways: by equating his gross deceptions with Mr. Kerry’s minor lapses; by omitting or burying news of administration activities and their consequences; and by missing the deep pattern of Mr. Bush’s prejudices and malfeasances. …
FROM THE RIGHT
By Bob Kohn
IS The New York Times systematically biased against President Bush? Of course it is.
I couldn’t quote more of the Right’s argument because it was ad hominem. mjh
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mjh’s Blog: ‘It should be he said/she said/we say — and here’s why we say it.’