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July 21st 2008     

Media Bias #18

Posted by: Laer at 11:11 am

Media Bias 2008 will cover pro-Obama media bias all the way up to the election. Items are listed from most recent to oldest; the numbering reflects this and is not a ranking. Send Media Bias 2008 examples via “comments”‘ below, or to email2laer [@] yahoo [dot] com.

18: John McCain Not Welcome

The NY Times editorial page was happy (gushing?) to run an op/ed by Barack Obama on his plan for Iraq, but when John McCain submitted a rebuttal op/ed, NYT opinion page editor David Shipley said:

“I’m not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written. The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.’

“It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.”

That doesn’t even begin to sound reasonable, especially since these five words lifted directly from the Obama op/ed do an excellent job of defining the entire piece:

As I’ve said many times …

Running opposing op/eds is a pretty darn good definition of fair media coverage … but not to former Clinton speechwriter and now NYT opinion page editor Shipley.

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  1. BA

    July 21st, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Mr. Obama’s NYT op-ed got 733 comments from readers. It would be fair to give Mr. McCain a right of rebuttal. This matter should be raised with the NYT’s Public Editor. He cannot be as dumb as Mr. Shipley. His e-mail is: public@nytimes.com

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