Re: OT Would you feel safer with George W. Bush or traitor Kerry?

DH, 9/7/2006, 10:00:29 AM,
<45001abd$0$19655$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You'd better take another look at who writes for Slate and what they
write about.

From Wikipedia:
Slate's focus and editorial slant is politically liberal, as seen in
choice of columnists, choice of and position on topics, and featured
cartoon: Doonesbury. During the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign, a
significant majority of staff and contributors supported Democratic
challenger John Kerry.

A more fine-grained analysis puts Slate slightly to the left of The New
Republic, but still to the right of Salon.com or The Nation.
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Okay, maybe not Soros' mouthpiece but still admittedly left-wing.
Perhaps I was thinking of Salon.com. Still, they should change their
name to The Slant!

My problem with such publications is their pretense of being objective
when they are noticeably skewing the content. If I was king for a day
I would decree all journalistic publications must state on the top of
the front page where they stand on the day's social events so you could
make an immediate judgement of where they are coming from. These days
you must even be careful of the newswires which are supposed to present
"just the facts" and no slant whatsoever.
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