Why McCain is getting hosed in the press
There have been moments in the general election when the one-sidedness of our site — when nearly every story was some variation on how poorly McCain was doing or how well Barack Obama was faring — has made us cringe.
As it happens, McCain’s campaign is going quite poorly and Obama’s is going well. Imposing artificial balance on this reality would be a bias of its own.
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If you are well informed and concerned about the problems in society and the world ( as one might hope for in a journalist ) then there is an inclination to hope for positive change and to be more progressive. There should be no need to even suggest an apology. And if a candidate is pandering for disinformed votes, that makes the candidate a special kind of ho, and they should be hosed.