October 01, 2004
Sources of debate
I didn't watch the debates last night, but I have read a lot about them this morning. I found it really funny reading these two articles back-to-back:
Bush rips Iraq flip-flops - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics
Iraq Takes Center Stage in Debate (washingtonpost.com)
These are the lead articles from The Washington Times and The Washington Post, respectively. For a millisecond, I thought that these two papers were going to even attempt to stay unbiased in their reporting of the debate... at least in the main article. Sadly, I was wrong. What I find interesting (but not surprising) is that the Times makes no attempt to stay unbiased.
Of course, this may be my scewed perspective since I hate Bush and everything he stands for. Oh wait...
Ken at October 1, 2004 12:47 PM
Fox News was pretty bad - we tuned in to see how biased their analysis would be. They had a former Bush aide representing the right, who ripped into Kerry. Defending Kerry they had a shrill "political analyst," who started off her analysis by saying, "I don't think Kerry looked like a flip-flopper at all." In fact, I think she mentioned flip-flopping more than the former Bush aide.
Fair and balanced (especially considering that the polls indicate that Kerry won the debate by a wide margin).
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