Post v. NY Times

As the class-list battle rages I’d like to point out the difference between the Post’s front page story, picture and headline and the New York Times article. The New York Times headline, “THE 2006 ELECTION; For Incoming Democrats, Populism Trumps Ideology,” reflects what is REPORTED in the story– that “in interviews with nearly half of them this week, the freshmen — 41 in the House and 9 in the Senate, including one independent — conveyed a keen sense of their own moment in history, and a distinct world view: they say they were given a rare opportunity by voters, many of them independents and Republicans, who were tired of the partisanship and gridlock in Washington.”

Dorian is right, sometimes the facts are biased. But the facts of the findings of the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group were not highlighted by the post headline. The post picture and headline meets a bi-partisan study group’s authors and all of the Americans that agree with withdrawal with name-calling and finger-pointing because it conflicts with the publishers open political agenda. C’mon now–can you really say the Times article does the same?