{"id":466,"date":"2004-10-19T19:24:50","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T02:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/left-and-right-agree-the-media-is-one-or-the-other\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T19:24:50","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T02:24:50","slug":"left-and-right-agree-the-media-is-one-or-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/left-and-right-agree-the-media-is-one-or-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Left and Right Agree the Media is One or the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week in Review > The Public Editor: Political Bias at The Times? Two Counterarguments.” href=”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/17\/weekinreview\/17bott.html?pagewanted=all&position=”>The New York Times > Week in Review > The Public Editor: Political Bias at The Times? Two Counterarguments.<\/a><\/p>\n

FROM THE LEFT
\nBy Todd Gitlin<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. …<\/p>\n

FROM THE RIGHT
\nBy Bob Kohn<\/p>\n

IS The New York Times systematically biased against President Bush? Of course it is.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t quote more of the Right’s argument because it was ad hominem. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

mjh’s Blog: The Vile Left<\/a><\/p>\n

mjh’s Blog: ‘It should be he said\/she said\/we say — and here’s why we say it.’<\/a><\/p>\n

mjh’s Blog: ‘It should be he said\/she said\/we say — and here’s why we say it.’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week in Review > The Public Editor: Political Bias at The Times? Two Counterarguments.” href=”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/17\/weekinreview\/17bott.html?pagewanted=all&position=”>The New York Times > Week in Review > The Public Editor: Political Bias at The Times? Two Counterarguments. FROM THE LEFT By Todd Gitlin The Times is not pro-Bush in the way that The Washington Times is pro-Bush, slamming John … Continue reading Left and Right Agree the Media is One or the Other<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}