Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Selective labeling

Here's how the Washington Post tagged an opinion piece by Barack Obama:

The writer is president of the United States.
And here's how they tagged Sarah Palin's opinion piece today:

The writer, a Republican, is governor of Alaska.
Apparently one writer is motivated by politics. The other is awesome.

5 comments:

  1. Republicans: Eternally the media's victim, and its master too.1:50 AM

    Oh, cursed liberal media bias in my head! When will you stop biasing!

    "The writer, a Democrat, is governor of New Jersey.":
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/23/AR2008122302001.html

    "The writer, a Democrat, is governor of Arizona.":
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802399.html

    "The writer, a Democrat, is governor of New Mexico and a presidential candidate.":
    http://johnib.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/diplomacy-not-war-with-iran/

    "The writer, a Democrat, is governor of Louisiana.":
    http://dnr.louisiana.gov/sec/execdiv/pubinfo/newsr/2004/1208crm-blancowetland.pdf

    "The writer, a Democrat, is governor of California.":
    http://www.cs.utk.edu/~berry/cs365s05/hwk/2001/May/shapiro-r/national_campaign/14.

    "The writer, a Democrat, is governor of Maryland.":
    http://mailman.no-racism.net/pipermail/analle/2007-February/000454.html

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  2. Golly, I'm so happy to have a commenter, I'll concede your point.

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  3. E,

    Don't worry, man of us are here all the time. We are just laying low because it is summer time.

    And I cannot believe that guy looked up all those articles.

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  4. Ti-i-i-ime is on my side.10:07 PM

    Brian, here's the secret.

    1. Go to Google.

    2. Type "The writer, a Democrat, is governor" + "washingtonpost."

    3. Results sometimes appear in under one hour!

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  5. Kudos to you both for being geniuses. I have to check out that Google site sometime.

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