In a good example of corporate media striving to narrow down the Democratic primary field (FAIR Media Advisory, 5/8/07), USA Today (12/18/07) had a story on candidates' electability that wrote all but two of them out of existence. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
While confessing a bias as an Edwards supporter, this story is good journalism for two reasons. It brings forward Edwards' strong position against all the GOP nominees, which has been true all year, but rarely shows up in "horserace stories." And perhaps more important, it shows one media source criticizing another, which is sorely absent in our national debate. I would like to see more of this criticism in the mainstream media.
