Jan
25
Written by:
roy
1/25/2008 8:26 AM
I think it was pretty telling that my initial bias rating for the Chronicle, which only included the last 9 days of 2007, showed a liberal slant of 49%.I’m sure that had I been doing it all year, the rating would have been exponentially higher.It’s going to be interesting to see how it shapes up this year, mainly with the upcoming elections.It’s already 14.3% for the first 2 days of 2008.
In a way, I think the Chronicle is already kind of “getting it”, in that they got rid of Cragg Hines, and seem to be trying to run a little broader spectrum of columnists like Robert Novak and Austin Bay, rather than the steady stream of Dowd, Krugman, Dionne, Hines, Thomas, et al, that is the usual op-ed fare.
Getting rid of James Campbell was also a good move, although they need to replace him with a real reader’s rep, instead of another liberal apologist. I applied for the job, but, I assume since my phone still ain’t ringin’, it still ain’t them (for all you blue-noses out there, that’s a line from an old Eddie Raven song).
Our ultimate goal at CoB is to shame the HC into giving its readers both sides of most issues. I can’t tell you the number of people I know, that when I asked them if they read a certain story in the HC, tell me, “I don’t read that liberal rag”. It would be beneficial not only to conservatives if they would be fair, but it would be good for the Chronicle’s circulation (which has been falling like a ‘you-know-what’ in a well in recent years) as well. That’s a real conundrum for them, no? Do what’s good for business, or press your liberal agenda.
A lot of the bias that exists in the Chronicle is what is omitted, that is, what I call the “No-No’s”, so we are adding a feature by that same name. A major No-No is anything or anyone that disagrees with the religion of man-made global warming. It won’t appear in the HC. An example of that would be the coming cold spell.
Analysis by Roy E. Yates
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