GOP seethes over Charlie Crist's stimulus-plan support

Miami Herald by Adam C. Smith | Feb. 13, 2009 (News Report)
Gov. Charlie Crist may be popular in Florida, but his unbridled support for the Democrats' stimulus package has Republicans seething.

As Democrats lavish praise on Florida's Republican governor for enthusiastically supporting their economic stimulus package, Republicans are questioning whether Crist damaged his future.

''I don't think he's helped any national Republican ambitions he may have by stepping up to the plate and batting for the other team. . . . There's a difference between working in a bipartisan way for the common good and switching sides and putting on the other ... Full Story »

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Michael Bugeja
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 by Michael Bugeja - Feb. 14, 2009

This is yet another political report containing 4 Ws and H of basic journalism, with the 5th W missing: What, for Pete's sake, is in the stimulus bill that so offends Republicans to the point of running against it in the future and dooming Crist for supporting it. This is shoddy journalism, folks: It contains no background other than what appeals to most people: partisan politics (contained in more than a few reviews here when we're supposed to be critiquing journalism).

When we read stories for politics rather than journalism, we fill in the missing facts subconsciously.

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